Article 87 (Missing Movement): Court-Martial Data and Trends

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Analysis of the 34 Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps courts-martial in the data that charged Article 87 (Missing movement).

By Service

• Navy-Marine Corps Article 87 Cases by the Numbers, 2017–2025

Sentences

• Article 87 Sentences in the Navy-Marine Corps: Confinement and Discharges, 2017–2025

Guilty Pleas

• Pleading Guilty to Article 87 in the Navy-Marine Corps: What Sentences Followed?

Charged Together With Other Articles

• When Article 112a and Article 87 Are Charged Together, How Do Cases End?

How this data was built: methodology and known gaps.

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.