---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 950r"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "950r"
heading: "Accessory after the fact"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/950r"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47A — Military Commissions"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Punitive Matters"
---

# §950r. Accessory after the fact


Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter who, knowing that an offense punishable by this chapter has been committed, receives, comforts, or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial, or punishment shall be punished as a [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) commission under this chapter may direct.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 111–84, div. A, title XVIII, § 1802, Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2607.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 950r, added Pub. L. 109–366, § 3(a)(1), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2624, related to accessory after the fact, prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 111–84.