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Court of Military Appeals  

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  • A product of post–World War II lawmaking, the Court of Military Appeals is evidence of the reform impulse triggered by that war. The court, created because veterans thought their sacrifices deserved a fairer system of military criminal justice than the one they had experienced during the war, presided over a sea change in the way American courts-martial operated. [Source: Encyclopedia of War & American Society; Court of Military Appeals]

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