Cary Criminal Lawyer

Damon Chetson, along with his paralegal Dena Reese-Booze, and a roster of experts and investigators, have helped hundreds of clients achieve outstanding results during the last decade in practice.

Mr. Chetson has more jury trials in the past decade than many defense lawyers have in a lifetime, winning cases and counts in otherwise "hopeless" trials. In 2017, Mr. Chetson defend a client charged in the kidnapping of a prosecutor's father, convincing a jury to find that his client had not participated in one of the two charged kidnappings as an "object of the offense." The following year, and in front of the same federal judge, Mr. Chetson convinced a jury to find his client "Not Guilty" of stealing a firearm even though his client had confessed to the crime.

A year later, in 2019, Mr. Chetson won victories in four trials - two in state courts, and two in federal courts - and in 2020 Mr. Chetson won three counts in a federal trial in New Bern, North Carolina.

Mr. Chetson offers free consultations - by phone, by videoconference, or in person - and his office practices social distancing and Coronavirus-related protections.

Since 2009, Damon Chetson has defended people accused of serious felonies in North Carolina's state and federal courts. A Board Certified Specialist in State & Federal Criminal Law, Damon Chetson, with co-counsel, beat back the Wake County District Attorney's effort to try to put his client to death in March 2019, convinced 10 jurors to vote to acquit another client of first degree murder in December 2019, won a RICO murder case in federal court in Charlotte in October 2019, and beat multiple gun counts in one of the first federal criminal trials after the outbreak of the Coronavirus in September 2020.

A graduate of the University of North Carolina Law School, Mr. Chetson has defended clients accused of major drug trafficking conspiracies, child pornography violations, wire fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, and homicide cases. Mr. Chetson has been called a "bulldog in the courtroom," and his client's "best advocate." He has appeared in the Washington Post, the Raleigh News & Observer, WRAL, and WNCN.

Mr. Chetson believes that any case can be beat: that it is a matter of doing the hard work of developing arguments and evidence to show that the Government's case is weak.