---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 950a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "950a"
heading: "Error of law; lesser included offense"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/950a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47A — Military Commissions"
  - "Subchapter VII — Post-Trial Procedure and Review of Military Commissions"
---

# §950a. Error of law; lesser included offense

- (a) **Error of Law.—** A finding or sentence of a [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) commission under this chapter may not be held incorrect on the ground of an error of law unless the error materially prejudices the substantial rights of the accused.
- (b) **Lesser Included Offense.—** Any reviewing authority with the power to approve or affirm a finding of guilty by a [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) commission under this chapter may approve or affirm, instead, so much of the finding as [includes](/usc/10/101.md?p=g-4) a lesser included offense.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 111–84, div. A, title XVIII, § 1802, Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2599.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 950a, added Pub. L. 109–366, § 3(a)(1), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2618, related to error of law and lesser included offense, prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 111–84.