Jonathan H. Mathis, Army Counsel of Record

21Cases

0As defense counsel

21As trial counsel

11Contested (not guilty or mixed plea)

As Trial Counsel (Prosecuting)

Average Contests Per Year: 1.8

21Cases

11Contested

18%Acquitted, contested cases (2 of 11)

45%Partial acquittal, contested cases (5 of 11)

Pleas When Prosecuting

Guilty10 (48%)
Not Guilty9 (43%)
Mixed Plea1 (5%)
Mixed Plea*1 (5%)

Plea Agreements

Plea agreement12 (57%)
No plea agreement8 (38%)
Not reported1 (5%)

Who Decided the Case

Judge Alone18 (86%)
Enlisted Panel2 (10%)
Officer Panel1 (5%)

Contested Panel Cases: 3 of 11

Enlisted Panel2 of 11
Officer Panel1 of 11

Findings When Prosecuting, All Cases

Convicted13 (62%)
Partial Acquittal5 (24%)
Acquitted2 (10%)
No Result Posted1 (5%)

Contested Findings (Prosecuting)

Decided By	Cases	Convicted	Partial	Acquitted
Judge Alone	8	3	3	1
Enlisted Panel	2	0	1	1
Officer Panel	1	0	1	0

Sentences When Prosecuting

Enlisted (15 Convictions)

BCD7 of 15
DD7 of 15
No Punitive Discharge1 of 15

Officers and Warrant Officers (3 Convictions)

Dismissal2 of 3
No Dismissal1 of 3

No Punitive Discharge

1 of 15 Enlisted Convictions

Plea agreement0 of 1
No plea agreement1 of 1

Member Retained: 1 of 3 Officer Convictions

Plea agreement1 of 1
No plea agreement0 of 1

93%Punitive discharge, enlisted (14 of 15)

83%Confinement (15 of 18 convictions)

2.0 yrsMedian confinement

29.0 yrsLongest confinement

UCMJ Articles When Prosecuting

Article	Cases	Contested	Convicted	Acquitted
Art. 120 Rape and sexual assault	8	7	6	3
Art. 128 Assault	7	3	4	3
Art. 120b Rape and sexual assault of a child	4	4	3	2
Art. 128b Domestic violence	4	1	4	0
Art. 131b Obstructing justice	2	2	1	2
Art. 134 General article	2	1	2	1
Art. 92 Failure to obey order or regulation	2	1	2	0
Art. 115 Communicating threats	1	1	1	0
Art. 118 Murder	1	0	1	0
Art. 119b Child endangerment	1	0	1	0
Charges not listed in the record	1	1	0	0

Judges, Most Cases Together

Opposing Counsel, Most Cases

Amber D. Ebanks 4
Dylan Bakken 4
Spencer C. Wolfe 3
Alexander P. Vanscoy 2
Kimberly E. Hurt 2
Michael S. Waddington 2
Aimee M. Bateman 1
Brandon Stumpf 1

Where

Fort Leavenworth 18
Fort Polk 1
Fort Stewart 1
Fort Campbell 1

Court-Martial Data and Trends

Data from public court-martial records on the installations and UCMJ articles in these cases.

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Counsel of record means this lawyer is listed as defense counsel or trial counsel in the public record of the case. Most cases list more than one lawyer on each side, and the records do not say who led or who argued, so the numbers describe cases this lawyer was counsel on, not individual wins or losses. Pages cover military counsel only; civilian counsel appear in lists by name. Percentages are shown for every count, however small, so check the number of cases behind each one. The Army records say whether there was a plea agreement, not what it said; Air Force records do not report plea agreements, and many Air Force records from 2016 to 2020 do not list the plea. In the article tables one case counts under each article charged, and Air Force records rarely list the charges in cases that ended in acquittal (those show as Charges not listed in the record). Member Retained means the sentence did not include a punitive discharge; it does not rule out a later administrative separation. Mixed Plea* means the record lists a guilty plea but the case ended in a partial acquittal, so at least one charge was contested (a mixed plea, or a guilty plea to a lesser offense). Contested cases are those with a not guilty or mixed plea, plus any case that ended in an acquittal or partial acquittal even when the record does not list the plea.

Source: public records of trial published by each service under Article 140a, UCMJ, as collected for the Military Trial Results page (data updated October 29, 2026). Counts reflect only the cases in this data and may be incomplete. Names are shown as published in the source records.

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