Attorney Charles Weber is an experienced criminal defense attorney serving clients in both state and federal courts in Charlottesville and the surrounding counties in central Virginia .  However, before embarking on a career in the law, Attorney Weber completed a career as a military officer.

Attorney Weber was commissioned an Ensign in the United States Navy through the Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of Virginia in 1968.  He was designated a Naval Aviator in 1969.

Over the course of his twenty-seven (27) year career, he logged over 4100 flight hours, 950 carrier landings and 133 combat missions in Viet Nam.  He is a graduate of the U. S. Navy Test Pilot School, conducted flying qualities, performance and weapon systems testing on a variety of high performance jet airplanes and remains a lifetime member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots.

He was selected to command Fighter Squadron 154, a carrier-based F-14 Tomcat squadron; Training Air Wing One, an advanced jet training base in Meridian, Mississippi; and the Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of Virginia .  He also served as the F-14 program requirements officer for the Chief of Naval Operations and as the principal aviation program analyst for the Secretary of the Navy.

He retired from active duty in 1995 with the rank of Captain and immediately began his second career by enrolling in the University of Virginia School of Law.

Mr. Weber was admitted to the Virginia State Bar in 1998 and opened his office as a sole practitioner focusing on all aspects of constitutional criminal defense.  Over the past ten years, he has represented over 1500 clients through all stages of the criminal justice process from the initial arrest through the trial and, if necessary, to a final appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court.

Mr. Weber has the experience, the character and the judgment you can count on.

Areas of Practice

• Criminal Law
• DUI/DWI
• Traffic Violations
• Drug Crimes
• Sex Crimes
• Homicide
• Military Law
• Felonies
• Misdemeanors
• Shoplifting
• Assault and Battery
• Construction Fraud
• Aviation Law
• Appeals
• Habeas Corpus
• Appellate Practice
• Malicious Wounding
• Unlawful Wounding
• Expungements
• License Restoration

Bar Admissions

• Virginia, 1998
• U.S. District Court Western District of Virginia, 1998
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 1998

Education

• University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1998
  Juris Doctorate
  
  
• University of Southern California, 1978
  Master of Science: Systems Management
  
  
• United States Naval Pilot School, 1974
  Post Graduate Studies: Aeronautical Engineering
  
  
• University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1968
  Bachelor of Science: Chemistry
  
  

Representative Cases

• Patterson v. Commonwealth, 39 Va. App. 658, 576 S.E.2d 222 ( 2003)
• Pryor v. Commonwealth, 276 Va. 312, 661 S.E.2d 820 ( 2008)

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Charlottesville-Albemarle Bar Association
  
  
• Virginia State Bar
  
  
• Charlottesville-Albemarle Criminal Bar Association
  
  
• Virginia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (VADCL)
  
  
• The Federalist Society
  
  

Past Employment Positions

• Captain U.S. Navy, Designated Naval Aviator, 1968 - 1995

Birth Information

• 1946, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America