This has several important implications, which include the increased costs resulting from this third-party interference and the ambiguous nature of trust protector status and duties in American case law.

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But the very effort to ensure the fairness of prosecutions under the Uniform Code of Military Justice depends on a principle that contributes to the protracted and confidential nature of such prosecutions: preventing command interference with the proceedings.

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Down in the rock pools, then, the news seems to be mixed: nature is showing a remarkable resilience in the face of man-made interference, but it is still far from clear what the wider impact will be from small changes to local ecology.

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