The Staff Judge Advocate also supervises a number of subordinate attorneys assigned to his or her particular unit. Collectively, the attorneys assigned to a particular command are called the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate. Prior to the late s, the duty of defense counsel was just another assignment within the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, much like the trial counsel military prosecutor.
To some, this created the appearance of a conflict of interest when two opposing counsel worked within the same office. To others, especially some soldier clients, the fact that their defense counsel wore the same unit patch as the prosecuting attorney and worked in the same building created the impression that their attorney was on the general's side and not theirs. Between and , the Army Chief of Staff approved an experimental program to determine whether it would be feasible to create a separate command solely for Army defense counsel.
The pilot program was deemed a success, and in December , the Trial Defense Service was born. Because of the limited number of TDS attorneys even the Army's largest installation, has only about 10 TDS attorneys , the TDS organization was originally not large enough to have its own unit patch shoulder sleeve insignia.
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