Practice areas: Criminal Defense, Appellate
Licensed in North Carolina since: 2021
Education: Duke University School of Law
Languages spoken: English, Polish
Selected to Rising Stars: 2024 - 2026 DeJoy Law PLLC
555 Fayetteville StSte 300
Raleigh, NC 27601 Phone: 919-628-4824 Email: Ania G. DeJoy Visit website
Ania focuses her practice on federal criminal defense. Ania has handled matters involving drug trafficking, firearms offenses, sex offenses, child pornography, violent crimes, robberies, money laundering, and other crimes.
Before going into private practice, Ania served as a federal law clerk to United States Magistrate Judge Robert T. Numbers, II, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
Ania graduated from Duke University with a double-major in Music and Russian.
Ania is admitted to practice in North Carolina, the Eastern District of North Carolina, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Ania works in Raleigh, North Carolina and represents clients across the Eastern District of North Carolina.
First Admitted: 2021, North Carolina
Bar / Professional Activity
- Criminal Justice Act Panel - 2023-2026
Representative Clients
- Client faced 20-year sentence for drug trafficking charges while on federal supervised release for prior federal firearm conviction. Government expressed intent to pursue murder cross-reference based on a pending first-degree murder charge in state court which would have triggered a guideline range of life. Outcome: Successfully convinced the Government not only to abandon the murder cross-reference but to stipulate that it should not apply and secured several sentencing-related stipulations that resulted in a guideline range of 27 to 33 months at sentencing. , 2025
- Client faced mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years for drug trafficking activities across multiple states. Outcome: Client received sentence of 47 months., 2024
Transactions
- Client was charged with 3 federal drug trafficking-related felonies each carrying sentences of up to 20 years. Outcome: Following extensive negotiations and after identifying critical sentencing-guideline stipulations, we secured dismissal of all 20-year charges. Client pled to a charge carrying a 4-year maximum sentence with a Government recommendation for a probationary sentence., 2025
Office location for Ania G. DeJoy
555 Fayetteville St
Ste 300
Raleigh, NC 27601
Selections
- Rising Stars: 2024 - 2026