Federal Criminal Appeals

Persons convicted of federal crimes in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan may appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which sits in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Carole Stanyar has over thirty-years experience successfully appealing federal criminal cases from the Eastern District. She has handled appeals from federal courts throughout Michigan, and from federal courts in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.  She has represented many individuals in petitions for certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, she has argued before the Supreme Court and she has prevailed there. See Notable Cases.

She has represented individuals charged with white collar crime, racketeering, public corruption, theft of trade secrets and espionage, money laundering, homicide, robbery, extortion, obstruction of justice, drug distribution, as well as securities, immigration, health care, program, wire, bank and tax fraud.  Specializing in complex litigation, she has presented and challenged experts, including agents from the FBI, IRS, DEA, ICE, ATF, and U.S. Border Patrol; forensic pathologists, toxicologists, crime scene investigators, surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, social workers, lawyers, and the clergy; as well as experts in cell phone data recovery and analysis, social media analysis, handwriting, fingerprints, eyewitness identification and blood spatter

Please contact our office with questions about your litigation.