MJ-019 · MILITARY JUSTICE
Military Appeals: CCA, CAAF & Supreme Court
MJ-019: Appellate review is forum- and posture-specific: service Courts of Criminal Appeals, CAAF, and Supreme Court review have distinct jurisdiction, filing rules, and deadlines.
Start with the controlling authority
Working procedure
- Identify the service, judgment date, post-trial action, and appellate status.
- Identify whether review is automatic, waived, petition-based, referred, interlocutory, victim mandamus, government appeal, or extraordinary writ.
- Use the current rules of the correct CCA and CAAF for the filing date.
- Preserve notices, docket number, briefs, motions, orders, opinions, mandates, and proof of filing/service.
- Treat petitions for new trial, correction-board relief, clemency, and collateral review as separate lanes unless authority expressly connects them.
Records to preserve
MREC-12 legal proceedings; MREC-14 claims/decisions/appeals.
Version and service discipline
Military justice is version-sensitive. Match the offense date, procedural date, service, forum, and filing date to the governing statute, MCM/R.C.M./M.R.E. version, presidential amendments, service regulation, and court rules. The 2024 MCM must be checked against later operative amendments before treating it as complete current procedure.
