If you or a close family member was charged with a felony offense (crime), would you rather be tried in a military general court-martial or a civilian criminal court? Why? Please offer analysis and examples. Provide at least three key differences between military courts-martial and civilian criminal courts and explain which provides greater protections. As you do so, use your critical thinking / legal analytical skills to differentiate among the factual, conceptual and procedural patterns that you may notice, and tell us about them. And please explain how well you think that your legal research skills helped you to answer questions posed in this Discussion.

To get you started, consider the following statement from F. Lee Bailey, a highly prominent defense attorney, who said if he were accused of a crime, he would rather be tried in a military court than in any other system of justice because of the protections afforded the military accused.