Michael I. Levin, Army Counsel of Record

53Cases

0As defense counsel

53As trial counsel

25Contested (not guilty or mixed plea)

As Trial Counsel (Prosecuting)

Average Contests Per Year: 5.7

53Cases

25Contested

12%Acquitted, contested cases (3 of 25)

60%Partial acquittal, contested cases (15 of 25)

Pleas When Prosecuting

Guilty28 (53%)
Not Guilty18 (34%)
Mixed Plea*7 (13%)

Plea Agreements

Plea agreement31 (58%)
No plea agreement18 (34%)
Not reported4 (8%)

Who Decided the Case

Judge Alone44 (83%)
Enlisted Panel9 (17%)

Contested Panel Cases: 9 of 25

Enlisted Panel9 of 25
Officer Panel0 of 25

Findings When Prosecuting, All Cases

Convicted33 (62%)
Partial Acquittal15 (28%)
Acquitted3 (6%)
No Result Posted2 (4%)

Contested Findings (Prosecuting)

Decided By	Cases	Convicted	Partial	Acquitted
Judge Alone	16	4	10	2
Enlisted Panel	9	3	5	1

Sentences When Prosecuting

Enlisted (46 Convictions)

BCD21 of 46
DD19 of 46
No Punitive Discharge6 of 46

Officers and Warrant Officers (2 Convictions)

Dismissal2 of 2

No Punitive Discharge

6 of 46 Enlisted Convictions

Plea agreement3 of 6
No plea agreement2 of 6
Not reported1 of 6

Member Retained: 0 of 2 Officer Convictions

No dismissal0 of 2

87%Punitive discharge, enlisted (40 of 46)

92%Confinement (44 of 48 convictions)

1.3 yrsMedian confinement

17.0 yrsLongest confinement

UCMJ Articles When Prosecuting

Article	Cases	Contested	Convicted	Acquitted
Art. 128 Assault	23	10	21	4
Art. 128b Domestic violence	17	9	16	4
Art. 120 Rape and sexual assault	10	9	7	6
Art. 115 Communicating threats	7	3	6	2
Art. 92 Failure to obey order or regulation	7	1	6	1
Art. 112a Wrongful use, possession of controlled substances	6	2	6	0
Art. 120b Rape and sexual assault of a child	6	4	3	3
Art. 134 General article	6	2	6	0
Art. 90 Willfully disobeying superior officer	6	2	6	1
Art. 131b Obstructing justice	5	2	3	2
Charges not listed in the record	2	0	0	0

Judges, Most Cases Together

Opposing Counsel, Most Cases

Where

Fort Bliss 51
Fort Bragg 2

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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