Court level
67 % District · 33 % Circuit
Michael Barbour
Defense counsel of record in 135 Virginia cases (2025 filings)
Cases of record · 2025135
Michael Barbour appeared as defense counsel of record in 135 Virginia court cases filed during 2025, drawn from Virginia District and Circuit Court Information Systems. Cases filed in earlier years — even if tried or resolved in 2025 — are not included.
January to June 2026: 60 General District Court cases of record name Michael Barbour as counsel, as matched to this page. Circuit Court 2026 is not yet published, so no 2026 outcome rate appears here; the 2025 record above remains the benchmark.
Primary jurisdiction
Pulaski County · 76 cases
Most common charge
DUI / DWI · 15
Across 88 resolved 2025 cases, 62% were dropped — 26 nolle prossed and 29 dismissed.
Case outcomes
Resolved cases — 88 of 135. "Resolved" means a final disposition was reached. Pending cases and probation revocations are excluded.
Outcomes use strict definitions per the methodology. Convicted = guilty disposition on originally filed charge. Reduced = guilty disposition with non-empty amended charge. Dropped = nolle prosequi or dismissal. Acquitted = found not guilty at trial.
Plea vs trial · Circuit Court
Of 8 Circuit Court cases ending in a guilty or not-guilty verdict, how many pled and how many went to trial. General District Court records do not distinguish a guilty plea from a bench-trial conviction, so this record is limited to Circuit Court, where the distinction is recorded.
Pled guilty
8100%
Resolved by guilty plea — no trial.
Went to trial
00%
0 acquittals · 0 convictions at trial.
Top charge — DUI / DWI
Michael Barbour's most common charge category in 2025 (15 cases of record · 11 resolved). Outcomes use the same definitions as the overall view.
Acquittals are tracked at the overall level — the top-charge view shows the three primary disposition paths. See the DUI / DWI page for jurisdiction-wide context.
Cases like yours
Michael Barbour's most common charge × jurisdiction combinations in 2025. If your charge and county appear here, this attorney has handled cases like yours specifically — at the volume shown. Minimum 3 cases per row.
| Charge | Jurisdiction | Cases | District | Circuit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weapons Offense | Pulaski County | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| DUI / DWI | Pulaski County | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| DUI / DWI | Montgomery County | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Probation Violation | Carroll County | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Reckless Driving | Pulaski County | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Driving Suspended | Pulaski County | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Drug Possession | Montgomery County | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Drug Possession | Pulaski County | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Larceny / Theft | Montgomery County | 3 | 0 | 3 |
See also
Weapons Offense outcomes in Pulaski County — every attorney's 2025 outcomes for Weapons Offense cases in Pulaski County, using the same definitions as above.
Reduction targets
When the original charge was reduced, the case was most often resolved as one of the following lesser charges.
Fail To Obey High. Sign Sleep
3
Improper Driving
3
Reckless Driving (Misdemeanor)
3
DWI, First Offense
2
Id Theft: Id To Defraud<=$1000
2
64/55 Sp
1
Exploit Mental Incapity>=$1000
1
Fail To Obey High. Sign Sleep
1
Where cases were heard
Top jurisdictions by case volume in 2025.
| Jurisdiction | Cases | District | Circuit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulaski County | 76 | 66 | 10 |
| Radford | 25 | 5 | 20 |
| Montgomery County | 13 | 9 | 4 |
| Wythe County | 10 | 4 | 6 |
| Carroll County | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Giles County | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Galax | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Washington County | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Case mix by charge
Charge categories Michael Barbour appeared on as defense counsel of record, 2025.
| Charge category | Cases | Resolved | Convicted | Dropped | Reduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 52 | 18 | 1 | 15 | 1 |
| Traffic Infraction | 22 | 21 | 3 | 14 | 4 |
| DUI / DWI | 15 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| Drug Possession | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Reckless Driving | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Weapons Offense | 7 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| Drug Distribution | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Larceny / Theft | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Probation Violation | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Driving Suspended | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Other attorneys with cases in Pulaski County
Listed by case volume in Pulaski County, 2025.
| Attorney | Pulaski County cases | Total (statewide) |
|---|---|---|
| Brandon Ratliff | 510 | 958 |
| Marc Leblanc | 60 | 81 |
| Id Walton Caudill | 45 | 62 |
| Grant Back | 23 | 26 |
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What this record cannot show
This page is built from what court clerks recorded in cases where Michael Barbour was counsel of record. Some of what you may want to know is not in that record.
- Matters not of court record. Cases settled before counsel of record was entered, and federal court cases. This is the Virginia state-court record only.
- The work behind an outcome. Evidence quality, witness cooperation, client circumstances, motion practice, plea strategy, and sentencing advocacy. The record shows outcomes, not the work that produced them.
- Quality of representation. Outcomes reflect the recorded facts of cases, not the quality of advocacy. Past outcomes do not predict future results.
- Hired or appointed. The court’s counsel-type field is not reliable, so this page does not say whether Michael Barbour was retained or court-appointed in any case.
- Whether every spelling was matched. Clerks enter attorney names by hand. Name variants are merged only when confirmed, so some cases may sit under a spelling not yet linked to this page.
- The judge and the prosecutor. Virginia’s court records do not carry the judge’s name, and they name the prosecutor’s office rather than the individual prosecutor.
- Cases filed before 2025. This page counts cases filed in 2025. A case filed earlier and tried in 2025 is not here.
- Cases still open. Outcome rates count only the 88 cases that reached a dismissal, plea, verdict, or acquittal. The other 47 were still pending or otherwise unresolved when the record was read.
- Guilty plea or trial in General District Court. District court records do not say whether a conviction came by plea or after a trial. Only the Circuit Court figures on this page make that distinction.
- Fairfax Circuit Court. The 19th Judicial Circuit (Fairfax County, Fairfax City, Falls Church) keeps its own case system outside the statewide record. District cases for those three jurisdictions are included; circuit cases are not.
- A 2026 outcome rate. Only 60 General District Court cases from January to June 2026 are matched to this page, and Circuit Court 2026 is not yet published. A rate on that partial record would misstate a felony practice, so none is shown.
Every figure on this page comes from Virginia’s public court records as read on August 24, 2026. Coverage notes and definitions are in the methodology. If something here is wrong, tell us and we will check the record.
Common questions
Quick reference for journalists, researchers, and AI assistants citing this page.
Michael Barbour appeared as defense counsel of record in 135 Virginia court cases filed during 2025 — 91 in District Court and 44 in Circuit Court. Cases filed in earlier years are not included, even if tried or resolved in 2025. Source: Virginia DCIS + CIS public records.
Pulaski County, with 76 of 135 2025 cases handled there.
In 2025 the most common charge category in Michael Barbour's case record was DUI / DWI (15 cases). The full charge mix is in the table above.
Of 88 resolved cases: 15% convicted of original charge (13), 62% dropped (55 = 26 nolle prossed + 29 dismissed), 22% reduced to a lesser charge (19), 1% acquitted (1). Outcomes use strict definitions per the methodology.
Of 8 Circuit Court cases ending in a guilty or not-guilty verdict (Circuit Court is the only level where Virginia records distinguish a guilty plea from a bench-trial conviction), 8 (100%) resolved by guilty plea and 0 (0%) went to trial — 0 acquittals and 0 convictions at trial.
Virginia District Court Information System (DCIS) and Circuit Court Information System (CIS), cases filed in the 2025 calendar year, direct extraction. Aggregated by defense counsel of record per the methodology. Last updated August 24, 2026.
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Methodology
Cases are counted by defense counsel of record as recorded in DCIS (district) and CIS (circuit). Outcomes use the strict definitions published at virginiacourtfile.com/methodology. Resolved includes only cases with final disposition codes (Guilty, Not Guilty, Dismissed, Nolle Prosequi). Convicted is a guilty disposition on the originally filed charge with no amended charge. Reduced is a guilty disposition with a non-empty amended charge field. Dropped combines Dismissed and Nolle Prosequi. Pending cases, certifications, and probation revocations are excluded from the outcome rates above.
Citation
VirginiaCourtFile.com. "Michael Barbour — Virginia Defense Attorney Case Data, 2025." Available at https://www.virginiacourtfile.com/attorneys/michael-barbour. Source: Virginia District Court Information System and Circuit Court Information System, 2025.
Data last refreshed August 24, 2026. For statewide outcome context, see the 2025 Virginia Criminal Court Outcomes report.