UCMJ Articles
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UCMJ Article 131b: Obstructing Justice
Any service member may be subject to prosecution under Article 131b if they engage in conduct in the case of a particular person against whom the accused had reason to believe there were or would be criminal or disciplinary proceedings pending.
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UCMJ Article 131a: Subornation of Perjury
Subornation of perjury differs from standard perjury because it is applied to the individual who influences, persuades, or causes another person to commit perjury.
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UCMJ Article 131: Perjury
Giving false testimony can only be committed during a judicial proceeding. Judicial proceedings include a trial by court-martial, and the course of justice includes preliminary hearings conducted under Article 32.
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UCMJ Article 130: Stalking
The accused wrongfully engaged in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear death or bodily harm, including sexual assault, to himself or herself, to a member of his or her immediate family, or his or her intimate partner.
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UCMJ Article 129: Burglary; Unlawful Entry
A service member may be subject to prosecution for unlawful entry if they unlawfully enter the real property of another or the personal property of another, which amounts to a structure usually used for habitation or storage.
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UCMJ Article 128a: Maiming
It is maiming to put out a person’s eye, to cut off a hand, foot, or finger, or to knock out a tooth, as these injuries destroy or disable those members or organs. It is also maiming to injure an internal organ to diminish the physical vigor of a person seriously. Likewise, it is hindering to cut off an ear or to scar a face with acid, as these injuries seriously disfigure a person.
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UCMJ Article 128: Assault
Military crimes that involve attempts or the completed act of bringing unlawful violence upon another person are charged as assault under Article 128 of the UCMJ.
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UCMJ Article 127: Extortion
For a service member to be prosecuted for extortion, the prosecution must demonstrate the accused communicated a particular threat to another and that the accused intended to unlawfully obtain something of value, or any acquittance, advantage, or immunity.
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UCMJ Article 126: Arson; Burning with Intent to Defraud
In aggravated arson, danger to human life is the essential element; in simple arson, it is an injury to the property of another. In either case, it is immaterial that no one is injured. It must be shown that the accused set the fire willfully and maliciously, that is, not merely by negligence or accident.
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UCMJ Article 125: Kidnapping
Any service member may be subject to prosecution for a violation of Article 125 if they seize, confine, inveigle, decoy, or carry away another person and hold the other person against that person’s will.
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UCMJ Article 124b: Graft
Any service member may be subject to prosecution under Article 124b if they occupy an official position or have official duties and wrongfully ask, accept, or receive a thing of value as compensation for or in recognition of services rendered or to be caused by the person concerning an official matter in which the United States is interested.
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UCMJ Article 124a: Bribery
Any service member may be subject to prosecution under Article 124a if they occupy an official position or who have official duties and who wrongfully asks, accepts, or receives a thing of value with the intent to have the person’s decision or action influenced concerning an official matter in which the United States is interested.