<br><br>35.185 Unlawfully influencing court, member, military judge or counsel <br>prohibited. <br>(1) No authority convening a general, special or summary court-martial, nor any other <br>commanding officer, or officer serving on the staff thereof, shall censure, <br>reprimand, or admonish the court or any member, military judge, or counsel thereof, <br>with respect to the findings or sentence adjudged by the court, or with respect to any <br>other exercise of its or his functions in the conduct of the proceeding. No person <br>subject to this code shall attempt to coerce or, by unauthorized means, influence the <br>action of a court-martial or any other military tribunal or any member thereof in <br>reaching the findings or sentence in any case, or the action of any convening, <br>approving or reviewing authority with respect to his judicial acts. The foregoing <br>provisions shall not apply to: <br>(a) General instructional or informational courses in military justice, if such <br>courses are designed solely for the purpose of instructing members of a <br>command in the substantive and procedural aspects of courts-martial; or <br>(b) Statements and instructions given in open court by the military judge or <br>counsel. <br>(2) In the preparation of an effectiveness, fitness or efficiency report, or any other <br>report or document used in whole or in part for the purpose of determining whether <br>a member of the National Guard or active militia is qualified to be advanced in <br>grade or in determining the assignment or transfer of a member of the National <br>Guard or active militia or in determining whether a member of the National Guard <br>or active militia should be retained on duty, no person subject to this code may in <br>preparing any such report: <br>(a) Consider or evaluate the performance of duty of any such member as a <br>member, military judge or trial counsel of a court-martial; or <br>(b) Give a less favorable rating or evaluation of any member of the National <br>Guard or active militia because of the zeal with which such member as <br>counsel represented any accused before a court-martial. This subsection is not <br>applicable to evaluations made by the state judge advocate of the performance <br>of personnel under his supervision. <br>History: Amended 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 56, sec. 23. -- Created 1954 Ky. Acts ch. 99, <br>sec. 36, effective July 1, 1954. <br><br>