Sean Pharr - Fort Mitchell, KY

Overview

Awards and Honors

Education

• Legal Education

  • Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Highland Heights, Kentucky
    Juris Doctor
    Honors: summa cum laude
    Honors: Moot Court Board, Member
    Honors: National Mock Trial Team, Member
    Honors: Student Advocacy Society, Chair
    Law Journal: Northern Kentucky Law Review, Executive Editor

• Non Legal Education

  • National Criminal Defense College, Macon, Georgia
  • University of Kentucky, August, 1220
    B.A., Bachelor of Arts
    Major: Political Science
  • University of Kentucky, August, 1220
    B.A., Bachelor of Arts
    Major: Philosophy

Current Employment Position(s)

• Managing Partner

• Attorney

Past Positions

• Louisville Metro Public Defender - Adult Trial Division, Trial Attorney / Deputy Division Chief, August 31, 2012 - September 1, 2017
• United States Attorney's Office, (Law Clerk)
• Kenton County Attorney's Office, (Law Clerk)

Languages

• English (Primary)

Classes and Seminars

• Expungement Continuing Legal Education (Presenter), Legal Aid Society

Pro Bono Activities

• Volunteer Legal Panelist at Men's Healing Place, Present
• Volunteer Legal Panelist at Women's Healing Place, Present
• Legal Aid Society Expungement Clinic, Present

Representative Cases

• COMMONWEALTH V. MH
  • Citation: When police claimed our client had caused a fatal head-on collision while under the influence, he was charged with DUI and Murder, facing life in prison. Despite having fled an accident scene littered with opened alcohol containers, Sean secured the client’s pretrial release while he challenged the government’s evidence and enlisted the help of a renowned accident reconstructionist. On the eve of trial, we were able to negotiate probation on reduced charges avoiding all prison time.
• COMMONWEALTH V. EP
  • Citation: Our client’s nightmare had only just begun when his 4-week-old son stopped breathing in his arms. Doctors found bleeding on the baby’s brain and fractures in multiple parts of his body. After the region’s preeminent forensic pediatrician issued a devastating report that the injuries were intentionally inflicted by our client, he was charged and faced 10 years in prison. By meticulously investigating the child’s whereabouts for every day of his young life, and raising substantial medical questions about whether the injuries were caused by a stroke in the womb, Sean was able to negotiate a resolution which would have eventually dismissed the charges. But our client persisted in his innocence and rejected the offer. After a taxing week-long trial, our client was exonerated and reunited with his son after nearly 2 years.
• CW V. JBT
  • Citation: It was a tragedy caught on tape at a bar, as our client raised a 45 caliber pistol to a man’s chest and shot him at close range. The two were friends, and while the man lived, he will likely never walk again. Refusing to believe our client never meant to pull the trigger, the government charged him with Attempted Murder and Assault. After a years-long legal battle, the case culminated in a trial that amounted to a legal dissertation on the concept of intent. When the jury announced that it had ac
  • Court: Jefferson Circuit Court
  • Year: 2022
• COMMONWEALTH V. A.D
  • Citation: In a recent case, our client was pulled over on suspicion of DUI. Although she admitted to drinking, had an open bottle of wine in the car, and “failed” the field sobriety tests (according to officer), she gave us enough to work with by refusing the breath test. With his client’s nursing license on the line, Sean tried the case. The jury deliberated just 10 minutes before returning a verdict of Not Guilty.
• COMMONWEALTH V. R.B.
  • Citation: Absolutely nobody (not even us at first) believed our client, with a long history of drug trafficking, possessed a substantial quantity of narcotics for mere personal use. But after a year of litigation, many “spirited” confrontations with prosecutor and judge alike, and some teaching about the value, quantity, and business of this particular drug, Sean helped his client avoid a 20-year sentence. We are thrilled in knowing that our client successfully completed probation and is now 5 years clean and sober.

Bar Admissions

• Kentucky
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Kentucky
• U.S. District Court Western District of Kentucky
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Ohio

Other Affiliations

• Louisville Bar Association
• Northern Kentucky Bar Association
• Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers