Carey Duncan Carmichael
Board Certified by the Florida Bar as an Expert in Criminal Trial Law.
Carey D. Carmichael, Jr. is the owner and manager of Carmichael Law, PLLC in Lake City, Florida. As a former Assistant State Attorney, a former Assistant Attorney General, and a former Assistant Public Defender, Carey’s primary focus has been criminal law for the last 19 years. Carey became board-certified by the Florida Bar as an expert in Criminal Trial Law in 2019.
Carey graduated from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia with a Bachelor of Business Administration. After college, Carey earned a Master of Business Administration and then graduated from law school in May 2006 and was admitted to the Florida Bar in September 2006. Carey accepted a position as an Assistant Public Defender in the Third Judicial Circuit in Lake City, Florida. Carey left the Office of the Public Defender in 2011 and moved to Tallahassee, Florida; accepting a position as an Assistant Attorney General. In 2012, he returned to Lake City as an Assistant State Attorney for the Third Judicial Circuit. He held this position until the end of 2017. Carey opened and managed his private practice from 2018-2022; and returned to the Office of the State Attorney from 2022-2024.
During his time as a prosecutor, Carey was directly responsible for reviewing, analyzing, and making filing decisions on over 5000 cases. Carey prosecuted every type of case imaginable, including capital felonies, fraud, DUI manslaughter, home invasion robbery, crimes against law enforcement officers, drug trafficking, crimes against children, and many more. In addition to his own caseload and work in trials, Carey was frequently called upon to supervise and train other attorneys in trial techniques, case analysis, research, and trial practice. From 2022-2024, Carey was a supervisor with the Office of the State Attorney, and was a member of its Special Prosecution Unit, focusing primarily on the prosecution of homicides, child pornography, and child sex cases. Carey returned to private practice in 2024.
- Criminal Law
- Drug Crimes, Expungement, Fraud, Gun Crimes, Internet Crimes, Sex Crimes, Theft, Violent Crimes
- Estate Planning
- Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Domestic Violence
- Domestic Violence Criminal Defense, Domestic Violence Restraining Orders
- DUI & DWI
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Florida
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- Federal Circuit
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- Carmichael Law, PLLC
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- Assistant State Attorney
- Office of the State Attorney - Third Judicial Circuit
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- Carmichael Law, PLLC
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- Assistant State Attorney
- Office of the State Attorney
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- Office of the Attorney General
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- Office of the Public Defender
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- Florida Coastal School of Law
- J.D. (2006)
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- University System of Georgia - Valdosta State University
- MBA (2002)
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- Mercer University
- B.B.A. (2000)
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- Florida State Bar # 28863
- Member
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- Board Certified - Criminal Trial Law
- Florida Bar
