ATTORNEY PROFILE

Attorney Christopher Winchell was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1969. He served as an enlisted infantry Marine with the United States Marine Corps in the 1991 Gulf War. He graduated with a B.A. degree from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and received his J.D. law degree at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio. He practiced in the field of construction law in Cleveland, Ohio before going back into the Marine Corps as an officer, serving at the rank of Captain. He served as a criminal defense Attorney in the Marine Corps and as the Senior Criminal Defense Counsel to Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, where he defended Marines and Sailors facing criminal charges at courts-martial in Hawaii and Japan, and supervised two other criminal defense attorneys doing the same.

Attorney Christopher Winchell has advised, counseled, and defended clients facing numerous criminal charges, including charges of attempted murder, rape, kidnapping, charges surrounding a conspiracy to commit murder and murder, drunk driving (DUI), possession and distribution of drugs, theft, forgery, false statements to police, fraud, child abuse, domestic violence, assaults, aggravated assaults, possession of child pornography, statutory rape, embezzlement, shoplifting, sexual voyeurism (spy cams), housebreaking, trespassing, stabbings, reckless driving, auto thefts, vandalism, and public intoxication.

Attorney Christopher Winchell is a member in good standing of the State Bars of Arizona and Ohio and a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.