5702 - Unlawfully influencing action of court. - Pennsylvania Statutes

§ 5702. Unlawfully influencing action of court. (a) General rule.--No authority convening a general, special, or summary court-martial nor any other commanding officer, or officer serving on the staff thereof, shall censure, reprimand, or admonish the court or any member, military judge or counsel thereof, with respect to the findings or sentence adjudged by the court, or with respect to any other exercise of its or his functions in the conduct of the proceedings. No person subject to this part shall attempt to coerce or, by any unauthorized means, influence the action of the court-martial or any other military tribunal or any member thereof, in reaching the findings or sentence in any case, or the action of any convening, approving, reviewing authority with respect to his judicial acts. (b) Performance reports on members and counsel.--In the preparation of an effectiveness, fitness or efficiency report or any other report or document used in whole or in part for the purpose of determining whether a member of the State military forces is qualified to be advanced, in grade, or in determining the assignment or transfer of a member of the State military forces, no person subject to this part may, in preparing any such report: (1) consider or evaluate the performance of duty of any such member as a member of a court-martial; or (2) give a less favorable rating or evaluation of any member of the State military forces because of the zeal with which such member, as counsel, represented any accused before a court-martial.