Since 2000, Robert Nunley has worked aggressively to defend clients rights as one of North Carolina’s leading criminal defense lawyers. In the past decade, he has defended some of North Carolina’s most high profile criminal defendants in complex corruption cases, major drug trafficking stings, accusations of violent crimes, sex assault and rape offenses, and other serious felonies and misdemeanors.
He is regarded as one of Raleigh’s top criminal defense attorneys. In addition to his work defending clients accused of serious and minor criminal offenses, he has represented clients out of state and out of the country. For example, Mr. Nunley was one of three American lawyers hired by the Associated Press to defend an Iraqi photojournalist detained by American forces in Iraq on suspicion of terrorism. No charges were ever filed, and after a more than two-year period of detention, the photojournalist was released thanks, in part, to Mr. Nunley’s efforts.
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Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Nunley from 1999 to 2000 as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of North Carolina.
He retired from the Marine Corps in 1999, where he enjoyed a distinguished career as a military lawyer and, before that, an infantry officer, with deployments around the world.
From 1979 to 1982, Mr. Nunley was platoon commander, and a company commander at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. In 1982 he was promoted to a series commander and a battalion personnel/legal officer at Parris Island, South Carolina.
In 1984, the Marines Corps sent Mr. Nunley to law school at the University of Kansas, in his native Kansas. Upon graduation, he returned to Camp Lejeune as a military prosecutor in various capacities with the Judge Advocate General of the 2d Marine Division. He finished his tour at Camp Lejeune as the base’s senior defense counsel. In 1992 he went west to serve as the officer of the Legal Team Delta at Camp Pendleton, California. There, he prosecuted serious felonies for the northern half of the base.
In 1995, Mr. Nunley returned to North Carolina where was appointed a military judge, later serving as Deputy Circuit Military Judge and then Circuit Military Judge with the Piedmont Judicial Circuit for the Navy-Marine Corps Trial Judiciary. He presided over more than 650 general and special courts-martial in North and South Carolina, including a number of trials that made national and international headlines. He also supervised other military judges within the Circuit.
Mr. Nunley brings a deep and wide experience to the law, having tried more than 1,000 jury trials and handled more than 11,000 cases in total. In addition, he brings a human touch to the law, understanding that the the personal and professional consequences of a criminal matter as much as the legal consequences of a criminal conviction.
Mr. Nunley is available for consultation upon request, and can be reached at (919) 835-1977 or info@robertnunleylaw.com.
