Section 26.05.385 - Judge advocates(a) The senior force judge advocate of each force of militia of the state, or the delegate of the senior force judge advocate, shall make frequent inspections in the field in supervision of the administration of military justice in the force.(b) A convening authority shall communicate directly with the authority's judge advocates in matters relating to the administration of military justice. The judge advocate of a command is entitled to communicate directly with the judge advocate of a superior or subordinate command or with the state judge advocate.(c) A person who has acted as member, military judge, trial counsel, defense counsel, or investigating officer, or who has been a witness in a case may not later act as a judge advocate to an authority reviewing the same case.(d) A person may not serve as a judge advocate under the code of military justice unless the person is a commissioned officer of the organized militia of a state or of an active or reserve component of the armed forces or another uniformed service of the United States, is a member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of a state, and is currently (1) certified or designated as a judge advocate in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States Army, Air Force, Space Force, Navy, or Marine Corps or designated as a law specialist as an officer of the United States Coast Guard, or a reserve component of one of them; or(2) certified as a nonfederally recognized judge advocate, under the code of military justice, by the senior judge advocate of the commander of the force in the component of the militia of the state of which the accused is a member, as competent to perform the military justice duties required by the code of military justice; if a judge advocate is not available, the certification may be made by the senior judge advocate of the commander of another force in the militia of the state, as the convening authority directs.Amended by SLA 2024, ch. 18,sec. 4, eff. 7/30/2024.Added by SLA 2016, ch. 55,sec. 4, eff. 7/1/2016.This section was originally numbered as 26.05.410 but was changed by the revisor of statutes.