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# Article 107 With Article 112a in the Army: What the Records Show
- URL: https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-107-and-article-112a-charged-together/
- Published: 2026-10-30T05:28:03.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-03T01:45:55.000Z
- Description: From 2021–2025, 23 Army courts-martial charged both a false official statement under Article 107 and a drug offense under Article 112a. Only 17% of these cases were contested, compared with 37% of all Army Article 107 cases.
- Author: Jocelyn C. Stewart
- Tags: Understanding Trends, Article 107, Article 112a, Army

[Trends](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/) › [By Offense](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/by-offense/) › [Article 107](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/article-107-courts-martial/) › Army, with Article 112a

**Short answer:** From 2021–2025, 23 Army courts-martial charged both a false official statement under Article 107 and a drug offense under Article 112a. Only 17% of these cases were contested, compared with 37% of all Army Article 107 cases. 67% of convicted enlisted members received a punitive discharge, compared with 60% across Army Article 107 cases.

Based on 23 cases · 2021–2025 · Army records · data updated October 24, 2026

## Most of These Cases Ended in a Guilty Plea

19 of the 23 accused pleaded guilty. 4 contested at least one charge, meaning they pleaded not guilty to it. The contested share was 17%, compared with 37% across all Army Article 107 cases in the same years.

16 of the 19 guilty pleas are recorded with a plea agreement, and 3 have no entry. Army records state whether an agreement existed but not what it contained.

No special court-martial in this group was contested (0%). Among the 13 general courts-martial, 31% were contested.

## Punitive Discharges

14 of 21 convicted enlisted members received a punitive discharge: 12 bad-conduct discharges and 2 dishonorable discharges. The share was 67%, compared with 60% in Army Article 107 cases overall. For enlisted members, a punitive discharge means a bad-conduct or dishonorable discharge.

2 convicted officers or warrant officers appear, and 1 was dismissed. Dismissal is the officer form of a punitive discharge. A sentence without a punitive discharge does not rule out a later administrative separation, and these records do not cover separations.

## Confinement Was Mostly Short

Confinement was part of 78% of the 23 convictions. Half of the confinement terms were 5 months or less, and the median for the rest of the Army was also 5 months. A quarter of the sentences were 7 months or longer.

Only 1 of 23 convictions (4%) carried more than one year of confinement, compared with 19% for the rest of the Army. That 1 sentence was 5 years or more. No conviction fell in the range of more than 1 year but under 5 years (0%), compared with 12% for the rest of the Army.

Terms under 6 months were 48% of convictions, compared with 41%. Terms of 6 months to 1 year were 26%, compared with 13%. No confinement was 22%, compared with 27%.

| Adjudged confinement            | Convictions | Share here | Share, all Army Article 107 cases in 2021–2025 |
| ------------------------------- | ----------- | ---------- | ---------------------------------------------- |
| No confinement                  | 5           | 22%        | 27%                                            |
| Under 6 months                  | 11          | 48%        | 41%                                            |
| 6 months to 1 year              | 6           | 26%        | 13%                                            |
| More than 1 year, under 5 years | 0           | 0%         | 12%                                            |
| 5 years or more                 | 1           | 4%         | 7%                                             |

## What the Sentence Figures Cover

These are adjudged sentences: the sentence announced at trial, before any plea-agreement cap, clemency, or appeal. Each sentence covers every charge in the case, not only Article 107 and Article 112a. Many of these cases also included other charges, described below.

## General and Special Courts-Martial

13 of the 23 cases were general courts-martial and 10 were special courts-martial. The general share was 57%, compared with 63% in Army Article 107 cases overall. The median confinement was 6 months in the general courts-martial and 4 months in the special courts-martial.

A general court-martial can impose any lawful sentence, including more than one year of confinement and a dishonorable discharge. A special court-martial is capped at one year of confinement and cannot impose a dishonorable discharge.

## Other Charges in the Same Cases

All 23 cases charged at least one article besides Article 107\. Article 112a appeared in all 23, since that is how this group is defined. The next most common were Article 86, absence without leave, in 6 cases; Article 90, disobeying an officer, in 6; and Article 81, conspiracy, in 6\. Article 121, larceny, appeared in 4.

## Forum and Rank

The accused usually chooses whether a military judge alone or a panel of members decides guilt. A military judge alone heard 22 of these cases. 1 case went to an enlisted panel, so members heard 4% of cases with the forum listed. No case went to an officer panel. Most judge-alone cases are guilty pleas, so this split follows the low contested share.

The accused were 17 junior enlisted members, 4 NCOs, and 2 officers. This group was more junior than the rest of the Army.

## Years and Installations

The cases were tried from March 2021 to January 2025\. There were 14 in 2021, 3 in 2022, 3 in 2023, 2 in 2024, and 1 in 2025\. Army records in this data are sparse before 2021\. The services were required to begin publishing trial records under Article 140a by December 2020.

Fort Bliss had the most cases (4), followed by Fort Hood (3), Fort Wainwright (2), Wheeler Army Airfield (2), and Fort Knox (2). These five installations account for 57% of the 23 cases. Larger installations try more cases of every kind, so a high count alone says little about any one base.

## Limits of the Records

The records give trial dates, not offense dates. Since December 28, 2023, special trial counsel decide whether to prosecute covered offenses, and new sentencing parameters apply when every guilty finding is for an offense after December 27, 2023\. Without offense dates, the records cannot show which rules applied to the few cases tried from 2024 on. The records also leave out the evidence, the plea terms, and cases handled by nonjudicial punishment or administrative separation.

For what the offense covers and how it is defended, see [Article 107 on the law firm's website](https://www.ucmj-defender.com/practice-areas/court-martial/article-107/?ref=bodiesburied.com). Dates and sources for the law changes: [UCMJ change timeline](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/ucmj-change-timeline/).

### How We Counted

Army courts-martial with trial dates in 2021–2025 that charged both Article 107 and Article 112a (23 cases), compared with all 184 Army Article 107 cases in those years.

Source: public court-martial records (Article 140a, UCMJ) in [Military Trial Results](https://www.bodiesburied.com/military-trial-results/), data updated October 24, 2026\. Definitions, sources, and known gaps: [how this data was built](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/how-the-military-trial-results-data-was-built/). Errors: content@bodiesburied.com.

## Related Analysis

- [Article 107 (False Official Statements): Court-Martial Data and Trends](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/article-107-courts-martial/) (hub)
- [Article 112a (Wrongful Use, Possession of Controlled Substances): Court-Martial Data and Trends](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/article-112a-courts-martial/) (hub)
- [Army Courts-Martial: Data and Trends](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-courts-martial/) (hub)
- [Army Cases Charging Both Article 107 and Article 120](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-107-and-article-120-charged-together/)
- [Army Cases Charging Both Article 107 and Article 121](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-107-and-article-121-charged-together/)
- [Army Cases Charging Both Article 107 and Article 131b](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-107-and-article-131b-charged-together/)
- [Army Cases Charging Both Article 107 and Article 80](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-107-and-article-80-charged-together/)
- [Army Cases Charging Both Article 107 and Article 81](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-107-and-article-81-charged-together/)
- [Army Courts-Martial With Article 107 and Article 128, 2021–2026](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-107-and-article-128-charged-together/)
- [Army Courts-Martial With Article 107 and Article 128b, 2022–2026](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/army-article-107-and-article-128b-charged-together/)
- [Article 107 explained on the law firm's website](https://www.ucmj-defender.com/practice-areas/court-martial/article-107/?ref=bodiesburied.com)
- [Search every case in Military Trial Results](https://www.bodiesburied.com/military-trial-results/) (members)

**Compare: federal court.** [Drug Use: Federal Sentences vs. Army Courts-Martial](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-drug-use-vs-army/) · [Drug Distribution: Federal Sentences vs. Army Courts-Martial](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-drug-distribution-vs-army/)

**About the author.** Jocelyn C. Stewart is a retired Army JAG with more than 24 years of trying courts-martial and more than 200 jury trials. She hosts *Where All The Bodies Are Buried* and runs the [Law Office of Jocelyn C. Stewart](https://www.ucmj-defender.com/?ref=bodiesburied.com). This analysis is for education and information only. It is not legal advice, and every case is different.