For 20 years, my job has been standing up for clients charged in high stakes criminal cases. I started as a public defender in 2006 and spent 11 years there. That's where you actually learn to try cases, because you don't get to cherry pick. You get whatever walks in: murder, rape, armed robbery, all of it. And you try them. A lot of them. I've tried too many felony cases to count and won not guilty verdicts in the heaviest cases there are: murder, rape, malicious wounding, gun charges, sexual battery, among others.

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I've placed actual transcripts from closing arguments on our website because it's the honest and transparent way to show what kind of work I do in the courtroom. I also handle appeals in both the Court of Appeals of Virginia and Supreme Court of Virginia. That appellate experience makes me better at trial. I know how to preserve issues, catch legal errors, and protect your case at every level.

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Most people who call me have never been in serious trouble before, or it's their kid who's in trouble, and they're scared. What I can offer them is this: after 20 years and thousands of cases, there's almost nothing the Commonwealth can bring that I haven't already seen. I know what a weak case and a strong one look like. I know when to fight and when to do damage control.

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I'm from here. I grew up in Virginia Beach, went to First Colonial, then the University of Virginia, then Richmond Law. I live here with my wife and four kids and two dogs.