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MILITARY JUSTICE NOTEBOOK – DATA ENTRY GUIDANCE When Required: Use of law manager is required for all Coast Guard courts-martial. A matter must be opened in the Military Justice Notebook upon the earlier of: (1) preferral of charges; or (2) imposition of restraint under RCM 304(a)(2)-(4). SJA’s have the option of opening matters in the Military Justice Notebook before either of these triggering events (e.g. receipt of CGIS investigation) or to track other military justice matters (e.g. NJP case, NJP appeals), based on local needs. By Whom: Data entry is the responsibility of the cognizant SJA. Initial Implementation: As of 01 October 2004, all pending courts-martial must be entered into the system. A case is pending if charges have been preferred, or restraint imposed, but the record has not yet been forwarded to G-LMJ for review. General: Data entry in the military justice notebook works in the same way as other law manager notebooks. An attempt was made in designing the fields to make them intuitive and to reduce the number of ways in which data could be entered (in order to promote uniformity of data entry). The data entry table below is meant to provide guidance on entering data in specific fields. Please feel free to call G-LMJ with questions/concerns. Caveat: This is a work in progress. G-LMJ is sure that we haven’t anticipated all the issues that will arise in implementing this system; however, we have to implement it in order to work out the kinks. Please call G-LMJ to discuss any data entry frustrations, program limitations, or confusion over how to handle a certain scenario. Open and frank communication will allow us to come up with the best way of handling a given scenario and allow us to pass that information to the rest of the field to ensure uniformity of data entry. DATA ENTRY TABLE MAIN SCREEN – required Data FieldCommentsMatter #Generated by the database after user opens new case CommandEnter Accused’s command. Type in the fi