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The Office of the Judge Advocate General enforces all administrative law within the ranks of Starfleet. The JAG carries out investigations of wrong-doing by Starfleet officers and convenes court martial’s when necessary. Although the Judge Advocate General itself is headquartered at Starfleet Command in Falls Church, VA., Earth, the JAG maintains offices on all major starbases. Any incident requiring the intervention of the JAG is referred to the nearest local office, though extremely important cases or those involving high-ranking officers are often pulled back to Starfleet Command for JAG’s personal attention.

In addition to upholding Starfleet's Uniform Code Of Military Justice, the JAG investigates and prosecutes cases involving violations of Starfleet’s General Orders, the Constitution of the United Federation of Planets, and the laws of Federation member worlds. The Judge Advocate General’s office has jurisdiction over any member of Starfleet accused of wrongdoing, even if the violation occured under local law. Normally, on a member planet, local authorities remand the accused officer to Starfleet’s custody, and the officer is tried under the Uniform Code Of Military Justice. On a non-alligned planet, however, this is largely a question of custody; once in an alien jail, it is within the planet’s rights to try the accused. Starfleet, however, works hard to convince the planet’s government to surrender the accused for court-martial proceedings. This isn’t always successful, and more than one officer has faced trial on an alien world, under unfamiliar (and sometimes poorly understood) laws. Often, in the case of laws broken on a nonmember world, the JAG office will invite a representative of the local government to observe, or even present evidence.




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