Oklahoma Code § 44-829

Title 44. Militia: Assembly and impaneling of members - Detail of new members
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and military judges.
ARTICLE 29.  Assembly and impaneling of members; detail of new
members and military judges.
A.  The military judge shall announce the assembly of a general
or special court-martial with members.  After such a court-martial
is assembled, no member may be absent, unless the member is excused:
1.  As a result of a challenge;
2.  Under subparagraph b of paragraph 1 of subsection B of this
section; or
3.  By order of the military judge or the convening authority
for disability or other good cause.
B.  1.  Under rules promulgated by the Adjutant General, the
military judge of a general or special court-martial with members
shall:
a. after determination of challenges, impanel the court-
martial, and
b. excuse the members who, having been assembled, are not
impaneled.
2.  In a general court-martial, the military judge shall impanel
eight members.
3.  In a special court-martial, the military judge shall impanel
four members.

C.  In addition to members specified in subsection B of this
section, the military judge shall impanel alternate members, if the
convening authority authorizes alternate members.
D.  1.  If, after members are impaneled, the membership of the
court-martial is reduced to:
a. fewer than six members with respect to a general
court-martial, or
b. fewer than four members with respect to a special
court-martial,
the trial may not proceed unless the convening authority details new
members and, from among the members so detailed, the military judge
impanels new members sufficient in number to provide the membership
specified in paragraph 2 of this subsection.
2.  The membership referred to in paragraph 1 of this subsection
is as follows:
a. at least six but not more than eight members with
respect to a general court-martial, and
b. four members with respect to a special court-martial.
E.  If the military judge is unable to proceed with the trial
because of disability or otherwise, a new military judge shall be
detailed to the court-martial.
F.  1.  In the case of new members detailed under subsection D
of this section, the trial may proceed with the new members present
after the evidence previously introduced is read or, in the case of
audiotape, videotape, or similar recording, is played, in the
presence of the new members, the military judge, the accused, and
counsel for both sides.
2.  In the case of a new military judge under subsection E of
this section, the trial shall proceed as if no evidence had been
introduced, unless the evidence previously introduced is read or, in
the case of audiotape, videotape, or similar recording, is played,
in the presence of the new military judge, the accused, and counsel
for both sides.

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