Champion of the underdog.
Crusader for the Constitution. 
Equalizer of the odds. 

 
 
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Constitutional. Criminal Tax. Civil Rights.

I’m Robert Barnes, advocate for the underdog and Attorney at Law.

From small-town East Ridge, Tennessee, to the elite environs of the Eastern Ivy league, Robert Barnes walks among the humble and the haughty. Traveling from the everyday to the esteemed, representing clients fighting for their civil rights and celebrities taking on the IRS, Barnes heeds the advice of his newspaper-throwing father, Walter, who was fond of reminding, "Never judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes".

“One of the central figures in the free speech battle.”

- Dave Rubin, the Rubin report


Barnes says ‘Bitcoin Jesus’ Roger Ver has ‘many defenses’ against IRS’s $48 million tax-evasion indictment

Roger Ver, a pioneering figure in the Bitcoin world and cofounder of Bitcoin.com, was arrested in Spain in late April on charges of mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns.

The U.S. Department of Justice will seek Ver’s extradition to stand trial in the United States for allegedly causing a loss to the IRS of at least $48 million. READ MORE…



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FEBRUARY 2
"WESLEY SNIPES CLEARED OF SERIOUS CHARGES"

SNIPES FACED 16 YEARS IN PRISON UNTIL BARNES' DEFENSE LED THE JURY TO CLEAR SNIPES OF SERIOUS TAX CHARGES. HE IS THE THIRD CLIENT OF BARNES' WHO OBTAINED A STUNNING MAJOR OUTCOME WHERE THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FAILED TO WIN CONVICTIONS.