Sec. 531. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces jurisdiction to review interlocutory appeals of decisions on certain petitions for writs of mandamus
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Section 806b(e) of title 10, United States Code (article 6b(e) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice), is amended— in paragraph (1), by striking paragraph
(4)and inserting paragraph
(5); by redesignating paragraph
(4)as paragraph (5); and by inserting after paragraph
(3)the following new paragraph (4): The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces may review for legal error a grant or denial of a petition for a writ of mandamus under this subsection by the Court of Criminal Appeals, upon petition of a victim of an offense under this chapter or of the accused, and on good cause shown. Any such review shall, to the extent practicable, have priority over all other proceedings of the Court of Appeals. .