---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 950j"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "950j"
heading: "Finality of proceedings, findings, and sentences"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/950j"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47A — Military Commissions"
  - "Subchapter VII — Post-Trial Procedure and Review of Military Commissions"
---

# §950j. Finality of proceedings, findings, and sentences


The appellate review of records of trial provided by this chapter, and the proceedings, findings, and sentences of military commissions as approved, reviewed, or affirmed as required by this chapter, are final and conclusive. Orders publishing the proceedings of military commissions under this chapter are binding upon all [departments](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6), [courts](/usc/10/704.md?p=c-3-A), [agencies](/usc/10/4701.md?p=g-1), and [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1), subject only to action by the Secretary or the convening authority as provided in [section 950i(c) of this title](/usc/10/950i.md?p=c) and the authority of the President.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 111–84, div. A, title XVIII, § 1802, Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2605.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 950j, added Pub. L. 109–366, § 3(a)(1), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2623; amended Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title X, § 1063(a)(7), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 322, related to finality of proceedings, findings, and sentences, prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 111–84.