> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.bodiesburied.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # What Was Tried at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, 2024–2026? 119 Courts-Martial - URL: https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/camp-lejeune-north-carolina-courts-martial-2024-2026/ - Published: 2026-10-28T06:31:02.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-30T08:02:23.000Z - Description: Camp Lejeune, North Carolina held 119 courts-martial from 2024–2026. 28% of cases with a recorded plea were contested, compared with 36% across the Navy and Marine Corps. Article 92 (orders violation) was charged in 25% of cases, compared with 19% service-wide. - Author: Jocelyn C. Stewart - Tags: Understanding Trends, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Navy-Marine Corps [Trends](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/) › [By Installation](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/by-installation/) › [Camp Lejeune, North Carolina](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/courts-martial-at-camp-lejeune-north-carolina/) › 2024–2026 **Short answer:** Camp Lejeune, North Carolina held 119 courts-martial from 2024–2026\. 28% of cases with a recorded plea were contested, compared with 36% across the Navy and Marine Corps. Article 92 (orders violation) was charged in 25% of cases, compared with 19% service-wide. Based on 119 cases · 2024–2026 · Navy and Marine Corps records · data updated October 24, 2026 ## How This Period Compares with 2019–2023 Several measures at Camp Lejeune were different from 2019–2023\. The earlier period had 283 cases, about 57 a year. Since 2024, there have been about 40 a year, counting full years only. The contested share was 26% in the earlier period and 28% in the later one. Full acquittals in contested cases that reached a verdict went from 1 of 40 to 8 of 31\. Sentence measures were lower. Convictions with confinement were 89% and then 75%. The median confinement was 8 months and then 6 months. Punitive discharges for convicted enlisted members were 82% and then 59%. These changes show a direction. The records cannot show what caused them. | | 2019–2023 | 2024–2026 | | ----------------------------------- | --------- | --------- | | Cases | 283 | 119 | | Contested (of pleas recorded) | 26% | 28% | | Full acquittals (decided contested) | 1 of 40 | 8 of 31 | | Convictions with confinement | 89% | 75% | | Median confinement | 8 months | 6 months | | Punitive discharge (enlisted) | 82% | 59% | | General courts-martial | 43% | 41% | ## Law Changes in the Same Period Since December 28, 2023, special trial counsel, not commanders, decide whether to prosecute covered offenses such as sexual assault, domestic violence, and murder. When every guilty finding in a case is for an offense after December 27, 2023, the military judge sets the sentence within new sentencing parameters. Both rules depend on the offense date, which the records do not give. Trials from 2024 on therefore include both old-rule and new-rule cases. The changes described above happened in the same period as these law changes. The records cannot show whether one caused the other. ## Most Accused Pleaded Guilty 112 of 119 records list the plea: 81 guilty pleas and 31 contested cases. A case is contested when the accused pleads not guilty to at least one charge, through a not-guilty or mixed plea. The contested share of 28% is lower than the 36% across the Navy and Marine Corps. Guilty pleas differed by charge. Cases charging Article 134 ended in a guilty plea 89% of the time (25 of 28), the highest among the top charges. Cases charging Article 112a ended in a guilty plea 75% of the time (9 of 12). The records do not say why an accused pleaded guilty or contested the case. ## Verdicts in Contested Cases 31 contested cases reached a verdict. 8 ended in a full acquittal, and 10 ended in a partial acquittal. The full-acquittal rate of 26% is the same as the 26% across the Navy and Marine Corps. A partial acquittal means not guilty of at least one charge or specification and guilty of another. So 10 of the 31 contested cases still ended in a conviction on at least one charge after a partial acquittal. ## Article 92 and Article 134 Were the Most Common Charges Charge lists cover 117 of the 119 cases, and a case with several articles appears in several rows. Article 92 and Article 134 each appeared in 29 cases (25%), compared with 19% and 21% service-wide. Article 128 (assault) was next, at 17%. Article 128b (domestic violence) appeared less often here, in 4% of cases compared with 12% across the Navy and Marine Corps. Article 112a (drug) appeared in 10%, slightly lower than the service's 12%. | UCMJ Article | Cases | Share here | Share, the whole Navy and Marine Corps docket | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------- | | [Art. 92](https://www.ucmj-defender.com/practice-areas/court-martial/article-92/?ref=bodiesburied.com) Failure to obey order or regulation | 29 | 25% | 19% | | [Art. 134](https://www.ucmj-defender.com/practice-areas/court-martial/article-134/?ref=bodiesburied.com) General article | 29 | 25% | 21% | | [Art. 128](https://www.ucmj-defender.com/practice-areas/court-martial/article-128/?ref=bodiesburied.com) Assault | 20 | 17% | 15% | | [Art. 112a](https://www.ucmj-defender.com/ucmj/article-112a-drug-offenses/?ref=bodiesburied.com) Wrongful use, possession of controlled substances | 12 | 10% | 12% | | [Art. 121](https://www.ucmj-defender.com/practice-areas/court-martial/article-121/?ref=bodiesburied.com) Larceny | 11 | 9% | 7% | | [Art. 120b](https://www.ucmj-defender.com/practice-areas/court-martial/article-120b/?ref=bodiesburied.com) Rape and sexual assault of a child | 9 | 8% | 5% | | [Art. 107](https://www.ucmj-defender.com/practice-areas/court-martial/article-107/?ref=bodiesburied.com) False official statements | 8 | 7% | 5% | | [Art. 80](https://www.ucmj-defender.com/practice-areas/court-martial/article-80/?ref=bodiesburied.com) Attempts | 8 | 7% | 7% | ## Convictions and Sentences by Charge Every case charging Article 134 ended in a conviction on that article (29 of 29). So did every case charging Article 112a (12 of 12). Article 92 had the lowest conviction rate, 26 of 29 cases. Article 128 cases ended in a conviction on that article in 19 of 20. The median confinement for an Article 134 conviction was 1.5 years. Convictions on Article 92, Article 128, and Article 112a each had a median of 3 months. Each sentence covers every charge in its case, so these medians are not sentences for the single article. | Article | Cases charging it | Convicted of it (share) | Median confinement when convicted of it | | ----------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------- | ----------------------- | --------------------------------------- | | Art. 92 Failure to obey order or regulation | 29 | 26 (90%) | 3 months | | Art. 134 General article | 29 | 29 (100%) | 1.5 years | | Art. 128 Assault | 20 | 19 (95%) | 3 months | | Art. 112a Wrongful use, possession of controlled substances | 12 | 12 (100%) | 3 months | ## How Much Confinement? Confinement was part of 75% of the 107 convictions. The median confinement was 6 months, the same as the Navy and Marine Corps median. A quarter of terms were 1.7 years or longer. These are adjudged sentences, set at trial before any plea-agreement cap, clemency, or appeal. Terms longer than one year came in 26 of 107 convictions (24%), more often than the 20% across the service. The median confinement was 1.7 years at the 48 general courts-martial and 3 months at the 70 special courts-martial. A special court-martial is capped at one year of confinement and cannot impose a dishonorable discharge. | Adjudged confinement | Convictions | Share here | Share, the rest of the Navy and Marine Corps | | ------------------------------- | ----------- | ---------- | -------------------------------------------- | | No confinement | 27 | 25% | 30% | | Under 6 months | 38 | 36% | 35% | | 6 months to 1 year | 16 | 15% | 14% | | More than 1 year, under 5 years | 18 | 17% | 13% | | 5 years or more | 8 | 7% | 7% | ## Punitive Discharges and Rank of the Accused 59% of enlisted convictions included a punitive discharge (33 bad-conduct, 25 dishonorable), compared with 52% across the Navy and Marine Corps. Of 3 convicted officers or warrant officers, 1 was dismissed. A sentence without a punitive discharge does not rule out a later administrative separation. Junior enlisted members (E-1 to E-4) were 73% of the accused, compared with 59% service-wide. NCOs were 24%, and officers were 3%. General courts-martial were 41% of the 118 cases with a court level listed, compared with 38% across the service. ## Compared with San Diego and Camp Pendleton San Diego, California (126 cases) and Camp Pendleton, California (142 cases) had similar numbers of cases. San Diego had the highest contested share, at 37%. Camp Pendleton's share, 27%, was about the same as Camp Lejeune's. The median confinement was 6 months here, 5 months at San Diego, and 4 months at Camp Pendleton. Enlisted punitive discharges were 59%, 47%, and 60%. | Installation | Cases | Contested | Full acquittals (decided contested) | Median confinement | Punitive discharge (enlisted) | | ---------------------------- | ----- | --------- | ----------------------------------- | ------------------ | ----------------------------- | | Camp Lejeune, North Carolina | 119 | 28% | 8 of 31 | 6 months | 59% | | San Diego, California | 126 | 37% | 12 of 44 | 5 months | 47% | | Camp Pendleton, California | 142 | 27% | 5 of 34 | 4 months | 60% | ## Cases by Year and What the Records Do Not Show There were 44 cases in 2024, 37 in 2025, and 38 in 2026, a partial year. Together they are 12% of the 1,013 Navy and Marine Corps courts-martial in that period. The records give trial dates, not offense dates. They do not describe the evidence, the plea terms, nonjudicial punishment, or administrative separations. Dates and sources for the law changes mentioned here: [UCMJ change timeline](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/ucmj-change-timeline/). ### How We Counted Every court-martial in the data tried at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina with a trial date in 2024–2026 (119 cases), compared with all 1,013 Navy and Marine Corps trials in those years. Dates are trial dates. 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 - [Camp Lejeune, North Carolina: Court-Martial Data and Trends](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/courts-martial-at-camp-lejeune-north-carolina/) (hub) - [Navy-Marine Corps Courts-Martial: Data and Trends](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/navy-marine-corps-courts-martial/) (hub) - [By Installation](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/by-installation/) (hub) - [Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, 2017–2018: Charges, Verdicts, and Sentences in 140 Cases](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/camp-lejeune-north-carolina-courts-martial-2017-2018/) (another period) - [Camp Lejeune, North Carolina Courts-Martial, 2019–2023: What 283 Cases Show](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/camp-lejeune-north-carolina-courts-martial-2019-2023/) (another period) - [San Diego, California Courts-Martial, 2024–2026: What 126 Cases Show](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/san-diego-california-courts-martial-2024-2026/) (same years, similar size) - [Inside 142 Courts-Martial at Camp Pendleton, California, 2024–2026](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/camp-pendleton-california-courts-martial-2024-2026/) (same years, similar size) - [Drug Cases at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina: 2017–2018 vs. 2019–2023](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/camp-lejeune-north-carolina-article-112a-before-after-2019/) - [Did Orders Violation Cases at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina Change After 2019?](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/camp-lejeune-north-carolina-article-92-before-after-2019/) - [Search every case in Military Trial Results](https://www.bodiesburied.com/military-trial-results/) (members) ← Previous: [Camp Lejeune, North Carolina Courts-Martial, 2019–2023: What 283 Cases Show](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/camp-lejeune-north-carolina-courts-martial-2019-2023/) ## Military Judges Who Presided Over Cases at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, 2024–2026 - [Robert Boudreau](https://www.bodiesburied.com/judge-robert-boudreau/) - [Gable Hackman](https://www.bodiesburied.com/judge-gable-hackman/) - [Keaton Harrell](https://www.bodiesburied.com/judge-keaton-harrell/) - [Nicholas Henry](https://www.bodiesburied.com/judge-nicholas-henry/) - [Ryan Lipton](https://www.bodiesburied.com/judge-ryan-lipton/) - [Patrick Martin](https://www.bodiesburied.com/judge-patrick-martin/) - [Benjamin Mills](https://www.bodiesburied.com/judge-benjamin-mills/) - [William Mossor](https://www.bodiesburied.com/judge-william-mossor/) - [Kyle Phillips](https://www.bodiesburied.com/judge-kyle-phillips/) - [Jesse Schweig](https://www.bodiesburied.com/judge-jesse-schweig/) - [Adam Workman](https://www.bodiesburied.com/judge-adam-workman/) Names and links only. Each judge's record of pleas, findings, and sentences is on their Know Your Judge page, part of the [Court-Martial Characters](https://www.bodiesburied.com/judges/) membership. **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.