Representative Cases

We have been helping people fight allegations for over forty years.

Some recent successful cases follow:

• Tom Maher succeeded in getting the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the denial of a motion to suppress in a federal drug prosecution – opinion. (2023)
• Tom Maher successfully represented a medical student in a Title IX investigation where UNC’s Equal Opportunity and Compliance Office concluded there was insufficient evidence a violation of UNC’s policy. (2022)
• Amos, along with co-counsel Robert Singagliese, successfully defended a capital murder case. After six weeks of trial, the case ended in a hung jury. (Warren County, 18 CRS 118-28, 50136, 2022)
• Amos, along with co-counsel Robert Trenkle, successfully defended a non-capital murder case. After the start of the trial, the state dismissed the murder charge. (Lee County, 17 CRS 52292, 2022)
• A Lee County jury found Amos’ client not guilty of first-degree murder. (Lee County, 17 CRS 645, February 2020)
• An Orange County Judge declared a mistrial in Amos’s case of an Orange County man accused of voluntary manslaughter after a jury was unable to reach a verdict. (Orange County, 18 CRS 50069, December 2019)
• Amos’s client, a Chinese national student, was acquitted of death by motor vehicle. (Orange County, 19 CR 51680, November 2019)

Other recent cases include the following:

• Amos successfully argued on appeal for a reversal of his client’s sentence. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a sentence and remanded the case for a new sentencing hearing. (No. 19-4182)
• Amos defended a client accused of sexual assault during an investigation by the UNC’s Equal Opportunity and Compliance Office, which concluded there was insufficient evidence a violation of UNC’s policy. (December 2019)
• Amos defended a client accused of sexual assault during an investigation by the UNC’s Equal Opportunity and Compliance Office, which concluded there was insufficient evidence a violation of UNC’s policy. (March 2020)