Ángel Eduardo Balarezo is a
criminal defense lawyer
A criminal defense lawyer is a lawyer (mostly barristers) specializing in the Defense (legal), defense of individuals and companies charged with Criminal law, criminal activity. Some criminal defense lawyers are privately retained, while other ...
based in
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from Virginia, and shares land borders with ...
who represents persons charged with serious state and federal offenses.
A. Eduardo Balarezo
A. Eduardo Balarezo (born 1966) is a prominent American criminal defense attorney. He emigrated to the United States in 1972 from Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Balarezo earned a B.A. from Georgetown University in 1989, with a double major in government and history. He received his ''juris doctor'' degree, ''cum laude'', from the Howard University School of Law in 1996.
Upon graduating from the Howard University School of Law in 1996, Balarezo practiced in the litigation department of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler in New York, NY. In 1998 he began practice in the litigation department of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in Washington, DC.
In 2001, he founded his own practice where he continues representing clients charged with serious federal criminal offenses such as racketeering (RICO), federal narcotics conspiracies, international narcotics distribution, sex offenses, homicides, and international extraditions. He is a member of the bars of New York, Washington, DC, Maryland and has been admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Eastern & Southern Districts of New York, the District of Columbia, the District of Maryland and the Southern, Western and Northern Districts of Texas.
Balarezo's clients have included Antoine Jones in a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that authorities had to obtain a search warrant to install GPS monitors on suspects vehicles. Balarezo also represented
Zhenli Ye Gon
Zhenli Ye Gon (born January 31, 1963, in Shanghai) is a Chinese-Mexican businessman currently under suspicion of trafficking pseudoephedrine or ephedrine precursor chemicals into Mexico from Asia. He is the owner and legal representative of Un ...
,
and the drug lords
Alfredo Beltrán Leyva
Alfredo Beltrán Leyva (born January 21, 1971), commonly referred to by his alias El Mochomo (The Desert Ant), is a Mexican convicted drug lord and former leader of the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, a drug trafficking organization. He was one of Mexic ...
and
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán
Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera (; born 4 April 1957), commonly known as "El Chapo", is a Mexican former drug lord and a former leader within the Sinaloa Cartel. Guzmán is believed to be responsible for the deaths of over 34,000 people, ...
.
References
External links
Law Offices of A. Eduardo Balarezo
Living people
American criminal defense lawyers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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