Army Article 107 Cases by the Numbers, 2021–2025

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Based on 167 cases · 2021–2025 · Army records · data updated October 24, 2026

Full Acquittals Were Uncommon

A full acquittal means not guilty of all charges. Of the 62 contested cases that reached a verdict, 9 ended in a full acquittal, a rate of 15%. In the rest of the Army, the rate was 38%.

Partial acquittals were more common. Another 40 contested cases ended with a not-guilty finding on at least one charge and a guilty finding on another. Army results list findings charge by charge, so partial acquittals appear in this data.

The full-acquittal rate was about the same for members and for a military judge alone. Contested cases decided by members ended in a full acquittal 12% of the time (4 of 33). Those decided by a military judge alone ended in a full acquittal 11% of the time (3 of 27). Counts this small can change with a single case.

Article 107 Was Usually Charged With Other Articles

Article 107 was the only charge in 12 of the 167 cases. In the other cases, it was charged with other articles. The articles most often charged with it were Article 121 (larceny) in 40 cases, Article 128 (assault) in 35, Article 120 (sexual assault) in 34, Article 134 (the general article) in 34, and Article 92 (orders violation) in 29.

A sentence covers every charge in a case. The figures below therefore describe whole cases that included a false statement count, not punishment for the statement alone.

More Contested Cases Than Army-Wide

A case is contested when the accused pleads not guilty to at least one charge. Here, 62 cases were contested and 105 were guilty pleas. The contested share was 37%, compared with 30% across the Army. Of the 105 guilty pleas, 97 are recorded with a plea agreement, and 8 have no entry. Army records note whether an agreement existed, not its terms.

The accused usually chooses whether a military judge alone or a panel of members decides guilt. Members decided 21% of cases with the forum listed: 30 enlisted panels and 5 officer panels. A military judge alone decided the other 130. Among contested cases, members decided 33 of 60 (55%).

Sentences Were Somewhat Shorter

Of 158 convictions, 115 included confinement. The median confinement was 5 months, shorter than the 6 months across the Army. A quarter of terms were 1.1 years or longer. No confinement was more common here: 27% of convictions, compared with 17% Army-wide.

Sentences longer than one year were less common: 30 of 158 convictions (19%), compared with 28%. These are adjudged sentences, before any plea-agreement cap, clemency, or appeal.

Discharges and Dismissals

Among 140 enlisted members convicted, 85 received a bad-conduct or dishonorable discharge (61%), lower than the 73% across the Army. Of those, 27 were dishonorable discharges.

The data includes 18 convicted officers or warrant officers, and 9 of them were dismissed. Dismissal is the officer equivalent of a punitive discharge. A sentence without a punitive discharge does not rule out a later administrative separation.

Rank and Court Level

The accused included 71 junior enlisted members, 77 NCOs, and 19 officers. That group is more senior than the rest of the Army.

A general court-martial can impose any lawful sentence. A special court-martial caps confinement at one year and cannot impose a dishonorable discharge. General courts-martial heard 62% of these cases (103), compared with 71% elsewhere in the Army. At general courts-martial, the median confinement was 7 months, and 40% of cases were contested. At the 59 special courts-martial, the median was 2 months, and 31% were contested.

Cases and Convictions by Year

The number of cases by year was 63 in 2021, 40 in 2022, 20 in 2023, 18 in 2024, and 26 in 2025. In total, these were 7% of the 2,422 Army courts-martial in those years.

As a share of all Army convictions with offenses listed, convictions including Article 107 went from 11% in 2021 to 7% in 2022 and 3% in 2023, then 4% in 2024 and 5% in 2025. The highest yearly count of such convictions was 52, in 2021. Shares allow years with different total caseloads to be compared.

Law Changes Over the Period

The services were required to begin publishing trial records under Article 140a by December 2020, and Army records in this data are sparse before 2021. Since December 28, 2023, special trial counsel rather than commanders decide whether to prosecute covered offenses such as sexual assault, domestic violence, and murder. When every guilty finding is for an offense after December 27, 2023, the military judge sets the sentence within new sentencing parameters.

Both changes depend on offense dates, which these records do not give. Trials from 2024 on therefore include cases under the old rules and the new rules. The records cannot show whether either change affected the trend.

Installations and Missing Pieces

The installations with the most of these cases were Fort Hood (16), Fort Campbell (13), Fort Bliss (12), Fort Bragg (11), and Fort Sill (9). Together they accounted for 37% of the 167. Larger posts try more cases of every kind, so a high count does not mean a base has a problem with this offense.

Only courts-martial appear here. These records do not include nonjudicial punishment, administrative separations, the evidence, or the plea terms.

For what the offense covers and how it is defended, see Article 107 on the law firm's website. Dates and sources for the law changes: UCMJ change timeline.

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. This analysis is for education and information only. It is not legal advice, and every case is different.