About Stephen Lindsay

Steve is a graduate of Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he graduated with

Honors in Criminal Justice. Attending on both a football and baseball scholarship, Steve was also

the recipient of a Dana Scholarship for academic excellence. Steve attended law school at the

University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he graduated with Honors. While in law school,

Steve was a member of the Holderness Moot Court and was one of the directors of the Braxton

Craven National Moot Court Competition.

Steve began his law career as an associate with the law firm of Elmore and Powell in Asheville

where he lasted an incredible 10 months. With a hand-full of cases, and a positive attitude, Steve

started his own law firm and has been running things that way ever since. He presently practices

in Asheville, North Carolina with Attorneys Mary Ann J. Hollocker and Austin von Henner; in Franklin, North Carolina with Attorney Virginia Hornsby; and in Durham, North Carolina with Kerry Sutton.

Steve has been involved in several noteworthy cases over the years. In one of his earliest cases, Steve

was trial and appellate counsel in United States v. Ross & Silvers, 844 F.2d 187 (4th Cir. 1988) used

as Key Case for “What Constitutes ‘Counterfeit’ Obligation or Security of United States Within

Statutory Provisions Setting Forth Criminal Penalty for Uttering or Dealing in Counterfeit

Obligations or Securities,” 99 A.L.R. Fed. 243 (1990).

In more recent years, Steve has handled several high-profile murder cases. State v. Lippard involved

two young men who murdered six people and through the efforts of Steve and his co-counsel, Mr. Lippard avoided death sentences. Steve worked with Judy Clark on the Eric Rudolph case involving multiple bombings in the southeast, with Kerry Sutton on the Mike Peterson murder case in Durham (an author accused of bludgeoning his wife to death), and on US v. Locust, a federal trial in which the defendant was tried for the murder of a Park Ranger (government sought death but withdrew request at sentencing phase). Steve and Kerry Sutton successfully argued for the removal of the elected District Attorney in Durham, North Carolina. Tracy Kline, who replaced Mike Nifong of the infamous Duke Lacrosse cases, made

numerous disparaging remarks about a local judge which triggered the action. Only once before in

North Carolina history has an elected district attorney been ordered out of office.