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)

Here are additional examples of our cases:
- Young man misidentified as a robber acquitted after a jury trial
- Young man accused of shooting a rival in a drive-by shooting acquitted after a jury trial
- Young man accused of vehicle homicide acquitted after a jury trial
- Woman who shot her husband in front of the courthouse after a domestic proceeding acquitted by a jury
- Man acquitted of vehicular homicide
- Hung jury in a first-degree murder case
- Drug trafficking charges dismissed after a Court excluded a large amount of cocaine discovered during an unlawful search
Robbery charges dismissed after court excludes eyewitness identification obtained through impermissibly suggestive identification procedures - Jury rejects state’s call for the death penalty and sentences a client to life for killing his nine months pregnant girlfriend
- Jury rejects state’s call for the death penalty and sentences a client to life for killing his wife
- Jury rejects state’s call for the death penalty and sentences a client to life for killing an elderly couple in their home
First degree murder case reversed on appeal after trial court refused to give a requested jury instruction - First degree murder case reversed on appeal after trial court refused to give a requested jury instruction
- A man’s conviction and thirty-year sentence reversed because the trial court allowed the State to proceed based on a flawed indictment
- A man’s sentence reduced after appellate court held that trial court committed reversible error by refusing to dismiss four of five charges
- Felony convictions and habitual felon sentences of thirty years vacated and remanded for a trial on a misdemeanor
- A man’s death sentence vacated because the State suppressed exculpatory evidence
- Represented clients facing gambling charges before federal grand juries
Represented clients in grand jury proceedings related to allegations of tax fraud - Represented clients in grand jury proceedings related to allegations of bank fraud and money laundering
- Successfully represented lawyers before the disciplinary hearing commission
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