The U.S. military has proposed historic changes to its justice system in the wake of concerns about the sexual assault of service members, ProPublica's T. Christian Miller reports. However, the proposed reforms don't address the power of senior commanders to decide whether to press charges, select juries and to vacate court martial convictions.
The changes would include the issuance of sentencing guidelines for military crimes and having military judges, not juries, determine sentences.
Charles Erdmann, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, told ProPublica "'these would be the biggest reforms in 30 years.'"
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