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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="13A-405" title_number="13A" title_name="Maryland Code of Military Justice" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Court–martial Jurisdiction">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to § 13A–402 of this subtitle, summary courts–martial have jurisdiction to try persons subject to this title, except officers, cadets, and candidates for an offense made punishable by this title under such limitations as the Governor may prescribe.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>No person with respect to whom summary courts–martial have jurisdiction may be brought to trial before a summary court–martial if that person objects thereto.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If objection to trial by summary court–martial is made by an accused, trial by special or general court–martial may be ordered, as may be appropriate.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Summary courts–martial may, under such limitations as the Governor may prescribe, adjudge any punishment not forbidden by this title except:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>dismissal;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>dishonorable or bad–conduct discharge;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>confinement for more than 1 month;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>restriction to specified limits for more than 2 months; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>forfeiture of more than two–thirds of 1 month’s pay.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A summary court–martial is a noncriminal forum.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A finding of guilty at a summary court–martial does not constitute a criminal conviction.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
