Camp Humphreys, 2020–2023: Charges, Verdicts, and Sentences in 69 Cases

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Based on 69 cases · 2020–2023 · Army records · data updated October 24, 2026

More Sexual Assault Charges, Fewer Convictions

Article 120 was charged in 28 cases, 44% of the 63 cases whose records list charges. Across the rest of the Army in those years, the share was 25%.

Most of those cases did not end in a conviction on that article. Only 9 of 28 did (32%), the lowest rate among the top charges here. For those convictions, the median confinement was 1.8 years.

Article 120 cases were also contested most often. Only 21% of them ended in a guilty plea (6 of 28). Cases charging Article 134 (the general article) ended in a guilty plea 73% of the time (8 of 11). The records do not say why an accused pleaded guilty or contested the charges.

Guilty Pleas Versus Trials

A contested case is one where the accused pleads not guilty to at least one charge. Here, 32 cases were contested and 37 were guilty pleas. The contested share was 46%, compared with 35% across the Army.

Of the 37 guilty pleas, 29 have a recorded plea agreement and 8 have no entry. Army records note whether an agreement existed, not what it said.

More Full Acquittals Than Across the Army

Of the 30 contested cases that reached a verdict, 47% ended in a full acquittal. That is higher than the 37% across the Army. Another 11 cases ended in partial acquittals, where the accused was found not guilty of at least one charge or specification and guilty of another. Army results list findings charge by charge, which makes partial acquittals visible.

Results differed by who decided guilt. The accused usually chooses between a military judge alone and a panel of members. Contested cases decided by members ended in a full acquittal 61% of the time (11 of 18). Contested cases decided by a military judge alone ended in a full acquittal 25% of the time (3 of 12). The records cannot show the reason for that difference.

Panels Heard More Cases Than Usual

A military judge alone heard 48 cases, enlisted panels heard 18, and officer panels heard 3. Members heard 30% of all cases, compared with 21% across Army cases in those years. Among contested cases, members heard 20 of 32 (62%). Most judge-alone cases are guilty pleas, so the split mostly follows how many cases were contested.

Shorter Sentences After Conviction

Of 49 convictions, 32 included confinement. The median confinement was 3 months, shorter than the 6 months for the Army as a whole. A quarter of the sentences were 10 months or longer. Sentences with no confinement made up 35% of convictions, compared with 17% across the Army.

Sentences of more than one year were also less common: 7 of 49 convictions (14%), compared with 27%. All of these are adjudged sentences, set at trial before any plea-agreement cap, clemency, or appeal. Each covers every charge in the case.

General courts-martial had a median confinement of 6 months and a contested share of 67%. Special courts-martial had a median of 3 months and a contested share of 12%.

Discharges and Dismissals

52% of enlisted convictions included a punitive discharge: 15 bad-conduct and 6 dishonorable. Across the Army, the share was 73%. For officers, the equivalent is a dismissal. The records show 9 convicted officers or warrant officers, and 2 were dismissed.

A sentence without a punitive discharge does not rule out a later administrative separation, which these records do not track.

A More Senior Group of Accused

Of the accused, 33 were junior enlisted (E-1 to E-4), 27 were NCOs (E-5 to E-9), and 9 were officers or warrant officers. That mix is more senior than the Army as a whole, where 57% were junior enlisted.

General courts-martial made up 64% of the 67 cases with a court level listed (43 of 67). A general court-martial can impose any lawful sentence, including long confinement and a dishonorable discharge. A special court-martial caps confinement at one year and cannot impose a dishonorable discharge.

What Else Was Charged?

Assault under Article 128 appeared in 33% of cases, about the same as the 31% in the rest of the Army. It ended in a conviction on that article in 16 of 21 cases (76%). Article 113 (misbehavior of a sentinel before 2019; drunken or reckless driving since) appeared in 10%, compared with 3%. Article 134 appeared less often than in the rest of the Army, at 17% compared with 22%.

Fort Stewart and Fort Drum for Comparison

Fort Stewart and Fort Drum tried a similar number of cases in the same years. Their contested shares were similar, at 48% and 43%. Their full-acquittal counts were also similar: 13 of 30 at Fort Stewart and 12 of 28 at Fort Drum, compared with 14 of 30 here.

Sentences were different. The median confinement was 1 year at Fort Stewart and 6 months at Fort Drum, compared with 3 months at Camp Humphreys. Punitive discharges for enlisted members were also more common at both, at 78% and 63%.

Timing and Limits

The trials took place from June 2020 through November 2023: 6 in 2020, 23 in 2021, 26 in 2022, and 14 in 2023. They are 4% of the 1,581 Army courts-martial in those years. Army records in this data are sparse before 2021, so the 2020 count is low.

Only trial dates appear, not offense dates. Evidence and plea terms are not described, and nonjudicial punishment and administrative separations are not included.

Dates and sources for the law changes mentioned here: 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.