Laura Shaver
Everett, WA
Licensed for 14 years
Law Degree
Awards
Primary Practice Area
Criminal Defense
Language
English
About
Since beginning her law practice in 2007, Kelly Canary has earned a wide reputation for being a highly skilled, creative and brave advocate, garnering consistently excellent outcomes for her clients. She has the breadth of experience, and level of commitment, to get you the best possible results.Kelly started her career with the Federal Public Defenders in Eastern Washington. She then returned to Western Washington to become the first staff attorney for the Washington Innocence Project where she represented innocent men and woman convicted of crimes they did not commit.Kelly then spent 11 years as a fearless, tireless advocate for her clients at the Snohomish County Public Defenders. Over her career, Kelly has handled serious violent felony cases, sex cases, sexually violent predator cases, misdemeanor cases and post conviction matters. Kelly spent over 2 years supervising and training new attorneys. In the last 5 years alone, Kelly has sucessfully handled a wide range of complex criminal and civil litigation.Ms. Canary won a 2nd Degree Murder trial, 3 Sexually Violent Predator trials, a failure to register trial and a .27 DUI and many others. She was also the recipient of the 2019 Irving Schwartz scholarship the National Criminal Defense College. While at NCDC, Kelly learned to take her trial practice to the next level. Kelly is ready to put her enthusiasm and expertise to work on any legal issues you may face.Kelly has lived in the Pacific Northwest for 35 years. She attended the University of Washington both as an undergraduate, and for her law degree. While in law school, Kelly interned at the Federal Defenders of Western Washington, the Innocence Project in New York, and the Washington Appellate Project, where she wrote criminal appeals.Kelly is also a longtime community advocate. She is currently the board president at the Washington Innocence Project, and is a former board member of the Post-Prison Education Program.Kelly has been asked to testify as an expert in front of the WA State legislature, handled all cases in In Washington state where the FBI offered false testimony at trial regarding bullet lead analysis, and has also presented on the National Academy of Sciences report.
Practices Areas
Criminal Defense
DUI and DWI
Language
English
Contact
Reviews
Kelly is a very hands on, and people person, she was always attentive to my needs as her client, and in the end got the job done, where others had failed numerous times! Couldn't recommend a better attorney!
Kelly contacted me about my case at the SCC in 2018, where I had been transferred to , after I had completing an eight year sentence for a crime that I did not commit. I explained the facts of my case to her, and she agreed to represent me in my upcoming SVP trial. With her choice of a second chair, and expert witnesses. She proceeded to annihilate the, Washington State Attorney General's so called, "case". I owe my very freedom to this smart, honest, beautiful, trial savvy woman, and Most Excellent Attorney. If not for her, I would have been spending the rest of my life at the SCC. Thanks again Kelly !
Extremely knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. Kelly consulted on a relatively minor matter for me, and it could not have been resolved more favorably.
Kelly is a very hands on, and people person, she was always attentive to my needs as her client, and in the end got the job done, where others had failed numerous times! Couldn't recommend a better attorney!
Kelly contacted me about my case at the SCC in 2018, where I had been transferred to , after I had completing an eight year sentence for a crime that I did not commit. I explained the facts of my case to her, and she agreed to represent me in my upcoming SVP trial. With her choice of a second chair, and expert witnesses. She proceeded to annihilate the, Washington State Attorney General's so called, "case". I owe my very freedom to this smart, honest, beautiful, trial savvy woman, and Most Excellent Attorney. If not for her, I would have been spending the rest of my life at the SCC. Thanks again Kelly !
Extremely knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. Kelly consulted on a relatively minor matter for me, and it could not have been resolved more favorably.
Kelly is a very hands on, and people person, she was always attentive to my needs as her client, and in the end got the job done, where others had failed numerous times! Couldn't recommend a better attorney!
Kelly contacted me about my case at the SCC in 2018, where I had been transferred to , after I had completing an eight year sentence for a crime that I did not commit. I explained the facts of my case to her, and she agreed to represent me in my upcoming SVP trial. With her choice of a second chair, and expert witnesses. She proceeded to annihilate the, Washington State Attorney General's so called, "case". I owe my very freedom to this smart, honest, beautiful, trial savvy woman, and Most Excellent Attorney. If not for her, I would have been spending the rest of my life at the SCC. Thanks again Kelly !
Extremely knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. Kelly consulted on a relatively minor matter for me, and it could not have been resolved more favorably.
Kelly is a very hands on, and people person, she was always attentive to my needs as her client, and in the end got the job done, where others had failed numerous times! Couldn't recommend a better attorney!
Kelly contacted me about my case at the SCC in 2018, where I had been transferred to , after I had completing an eight year sentence for a crime that I did not commit. I explained the facts of my case to her, and she agreed to represent me in my upcoming SVP trial. With her choice of a second chair, and expert witnesses. She proceeded to annihilate the, Washington State Attorney General's so called, "case". I owe my very freedom to this smart, honest, beautiful, trial savvy woman, and Most Excellent Attorney. If not for her, I would have been spending the rest of my life at the SCC. Thanks again Kelly !
Extremely knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. Kelly consulted on a relatively minor matter for me, and it could not have been resolved more favorably.
Kelly is a very hands on, and people person, she was always attentive to my needs as her client, and in the end got the job done, where others had failed numerous times! Couldn't recommend a better attorney!
Kelly contacted me about my case at the SCC in 2018, where I had been transferred to , after I had completing an eight year sentence for a crime that I did not commit. I explained the facts of my case to her, and she agreed to represent me in my upcoming SVP trial. With her choice of a second chair, and expert witnesses. She proceeded to annihilate the, Washington State Attorney General's so called, "case". I owe my very freedom to this smart, honest, beautiful, trial savvy woman, and Most Excellent Attorney. If not for her, I would have been spending the rest of my life at the SCC. Thanks again Kelly !
Extremely knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. Kelly consulted on a relatively minor matter for me, and it could not have been resolved more favorably.
Kelly is a very hands on, and people person, she was always attentive to my needs as her client, and in the end got the job done, where others had failed numerous times! Couldn't recommend a better attorney!
Kelly contacted me about my case at the SCC in 2018, where I had been transferred to , after I had completing an eight year sentence for a crime that I did not commit. I explained the facts of my case to her, and she agreed to represent me in my upcoming SVP trial. With her choice of a second chair, and expert witnesses. She proceeded to annihilate the, Washington State Attorney General's so called, "case". I owe my very freedom to this smart, honest, beautiful, trial savvy woman, and Most Excellent Attorney. If not for her, I would have been spending the rest of my life at the SCC. Thanks again Kelly !
Extremely knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. Kelly consulted on a relatively minor matter for me, and it could not have been resolved more favorably.
Kelly is a very hands on, and people person, she was always attentive to my needs as her client, and in the end got the job done, where others had failed numerous times! Couldn't recommend a better attorney!
Kelly contacted me about my case at the SCC in 2018, where I had been transferred to , after I had completing an eight year sentence for a crime that I did not commit. I explained the facts of my case to her, and she agreed to represent me in my upcoming SVP trial. With her choice of a second chair, and expert witnesses. She proceeded to annihilate the, Washington State Attorney General's so called, "case". I owe my very freedom to this smart, honest, beautiful, trial savvy woman, and Most Excellent Attorney. If not for her, I would have been spending the rest of my life at the SCC. Thanks again Kelly !
Extremely knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. Kelly consulted on a relatively minor matter for me, and it could not have been resolved more favorably.
Kelly is a very hands on, and people person, she was always attentive to my needs as her client, and in the end got the job done, where others had failed numerous times! Couldn't recommend a better attorney!
Kelly contacted me about my case at the SCC in 2018, where I had been transferred to , after I had completing an eight year sentence for a crime that I did not commit. I explained the facts of my case to her, and she agreed to represent me in my upcoming SVP trial. With her choice of a second chair, and expert witnesses. She proceeded to annihilate the, Washington State Attorney General's so called, "case". I owe my very freedom to this smart, honest, beautiful, trial savvy woman, and Most Excellent Attorney. If not for her, I would have been spending the rest of my life at the SCC. Thanks again Kelly !
Extremely knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. Kelly consulted on a relatively minor matter for me, and it could not have been resolved more favorably.
Kelly is a very hands on, and people person, she was always attentive to my needs as her client, and in the end got the job done, where others had failed numerous times! Couldn't recommend a better attorney!
Kelly contacted me about my case at the SCC in 2018, where I had been transferred to , after I had completing an eight year sentence for a crime that I did not commit. I explained the facts of my case to her, and she agreed to represent me in my upcoming SVP trial. With her choice of a second chair, and expert witnesses. She proceeded to annihilate the, Washington State Attorney General's so called, "case". I owe my very freedom to this smart, honest, beautiful, trial savvy woman, and Most Excellent Attorney. If not for her, I would have been spending the rest of my life at the SCC. Thanks again Kelly !
Extremely knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. Kelly consulted on a relatively minor matter for me, and it could not have been resolved more favorably.
Kelly is a very hands on, and people person, she was always attentive to my needs as her client, and in the end got the job done, where others had failed numerous times! Couldn't recommend a better attorney!
Kelly contacted me about my case at the SCC in 2018, where I had been transferred to , after I had completing an eight year sentence for a crime that I did not commit. I explained the facts of my case to her, and she agreed to represent me in my upcoming SVP trial. With her choice of a second chair, and expert witnesses. She proceeded to annihilate the, Washington State Attorney General's so called, "case". I owe my very freedom to this smart, honest, beautiful, trial savvy woman, and Most Excellent Attorney. If not for her, I would have been spending the rest of my life at the SCC. Thanks again Kelly !
Extremely knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. Kelly consulted on a relatively minor matter for me, and it could not have been resolved more favorably.
Kelly is a very hands on, and people person, she was always attentive to my needs as her client, and in the end got the job done, where others had failed numerous times! Couldn't recommend a better attorney!
Kelly contacted me about my case at the SCC in 2018, where I had been transferred to , after I had completing an eight year sentence for a crime that I did not commit. I explained the facts of my case to her, and she agreed to represent me in my upcoming SVP trial. With her choice of a second chair, and expert witnesses. She proceeded to annihilate the, Washington State Attorney General's so called, "case". I owe my very freedom to this smart, honest, beautiful, trial savvy woman, and Most Excellent Attorney. If not for her, I would have been spending the rest of my life at the SCC. Thanks again Kelly !
Extremely knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. Kelly consulted on a relatively minor matter for me, and it could not have been resolved more favorably.
Kelly is a very hands on, and people person, she was always attentive to my needs as her client, and in the end got the job done, where others had failed numerous times! Couldn't recommend a better attorney!
Kelly contacted me about my case at the SCC in 2018, where I had been transferred to , after I had completing an eight year sentence for a crime that I did not commit. I explained the facts of my case to her, and she agreed to represent me in my upcoming SVP trial. With her choice of a second chair, and expert witnesses. She proceeded to annihilate the, Washington State Attorney General's so called, "case". I owe my very freedom to this smart, honest, beautiful, trial savvy woman, and Most Excellent Attorney. If not for her, I would have been spending the rest of my life at the SCC. Thanks again Kelly !
Extremely knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. Kelly consulted on a relatively minor matter for me, and it could not have been resolved more favorably.
Kelly is a very hands on, and people person, she was always attentive to my needs as her client, and in the end got the job done, where others had failed numerous times! Couldn't recommend a better attorney!
Kelly contacted me about my case at the SCC in 2018, where I had been transferred to , after I had completing an eight year sentence for a crime that I did not commit. I explained the facts of my case to her, and she agreed to represent me in my upcoming SVP trial. With her choice of a second chair, and expert witnesses. She proceeded to annihilate the, Washington State Attorney General's so called, "case". I owe my very freedom to this smart, honest, beautiful, trial savvy woman, and Most Excellent Attorney. If not for her, I would have been spending the rest of my life at the SCC. Thanks again Kelly !
Extremely knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. Kelly consulted on a relatively minor matter for me, and it could not have been resolved more favorably.
Kelly is a very hands on, and people person, she was always attentive to my needs as her client, and in the end got the job done, where others had failed numerous times! Couldn't recommend a better attorney!
Kelly contacted me about my case at the SCC in 2018, where I had been transferred to , after I had completing an eight year sentence for a crime that I did not commit. I explained the facts of my case to her, and she agreed to represent me in my upcoming SVP trial. With her choice of a second chair, and expert witnesses. She proceeded to annihilate the, Washington State Attorney General's so called, "case". I owe my very freedom to this smart, honest, beautiful, trial savvy woman, and Most Excellent Attorney. If not for her, I would have been spending the rest of my life at the SCC. Thanks again Kelly !
Extremely knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. Kelly consulted on a relatively minor matter for me, and it could not have been resolved more favorably.
Kelly is a very hands on, and people person, she was always attentive to my needs as her client, and in the end got the job done, where others had failed numerous times! Couldn't recommend a better attorney!
Kelly contacted me about my case at the SCC in 2018, where I had been transferred to , after I had completing an eight year sentence for a crime that I did not commit. I explained the facts of my case to her, and she agreed to represent me in my upcoming SVP trial. With her choice of a second chair, and expert witnesses. She proceeded to annihilate the, Washington State Attorney General's so called, "case". I owe my very freedom to this smart, honest, beautiful, trial savvy woman, and Most Excellent Attorney. If not for her, I would have been spending the rest of my life at the SCC. Thanks again Kelly !
Extremely knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. Kelly consulted on a relatively minor matter for me, and it could not have been resolved more favorably.
Kelly is a very hands on, and people person, she was always attentive to my needs as her client, and in the end got the job done, where others had failed numerous times! Couldn't recommend a better attorney!
Kelly contacted me about my case at the SCC in 2018, where I had been transferred to , after I had completing an eight year sentence for a crime that I did not commit. I explained the facts of my case to her, and she agreed to represent me in my upcoming SVP trial. With her choice of a second chair, and expert witnesses. She proceeded to annihilate the, Washington State Attorney General's so called, "case". I owe my very freedom to this smart, honest, beautiful, trial savvy woman, and Most Excellent Attorney. If not for her, I would have been spending the rest of my life at the SCC. Thanks again Kelly !
Extremely knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. Kelly consulted on a relatively minor matter for me, and it could not have been resolved more favorably.
Kelly is a very hands on, and people person, she was always attentive to my needs as her client, and in the end got the job done, where others had failed numerous times! Couldn't recommend a better attorney!
Kelly contacted me about my case at the SCC in 2018, where I had been transferred to , after I had completing an eight year sentence for a crime that I did not commit. I explained the facts of my case to her, and she agreed to represent me in my upcoming SVP trial. With her choice of a second chair, and expert witnesses. She proceeded to annihilate the, Washington State Attorney General's so called, "case". I owe my very freedom to this smart, honest, beautiful, trial savvy woman, and Most Excellent Attorney. If not for her, I would have been spending the rest of my life at the SCC. Thanks again Kelly !
Extremely knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. Kelly consulted on a relatively minor matter for me, and it could not have been resolved more favorably.
Kelly is a very hands on, and people person, she was always attentive to my needs as her client, and in the end got the job done, where others had failed numerous times! Couldn't recommend a better attorney!
Kelly contacted me about my case at the SCC in 2018, where I had been transferred to , after I had completing an eight year sentence for a crime that I did not commit. I explained the facts of my case to her, and she agreed to represent me in my upcoming SVP trial. With her choice of a second chair, and expert witnesses. She proceeded to annihilate the, Washington State Attorney General's so called, "case". I owe my very freedom to this smart, honest, beautiful, trial savvy woman, and Most Excellent Attorney. If not for her, I would have been spending the rest of my life at the SCC. Thanks again Kelly !
Extremely knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. Kelly consulted on a relatively minor matter for me, and it could not have been resolved more favorably.
Kelly is a very hands on, and people person, she was always attentive to my needs as her client, and in the end got the job done, where others had failed numerous times! Couldn't recommend a better attorney!
Kelly contacted me about my case at the SCC in 2018, where I had been transferred to , after I had completing an eight year sentence for a crime that I did not commit. I explained the facts of my case to her, and she agreed to represent me in my upcoming SVP trial. With her choice of a second chair, and expert witnesses. She proceeded to annihilate the, Washington State Attorney General's so called, "case". I owe my very freedom to this smart, honest, beautiful, trial savvy woman, and Most Excellent Attorney. If not for her, I would have been spending the rest of my life at the SCC. Thanks again Kelly !
Extremely knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. Kelly consulted on a relatively minor matter for me, and it could not have been resolved more favorably.
Kelly is a very hands on, and people person, she was always attentive to my needs as her client, and in the end got the job done, where others had failed numerous times! Couldn't recommend a better attorney!
Kelly contacted me about my case at the SCC in 2018, where I had been transferred to , after I had completing an eight year sentence for a crime that I did not commit. I explained the facts of my case to her, and she agreed to represent me in my upcoming SVP trial. With her choice of a second chair, and expert witnesses. She proceeded to annihilate the, Washington State Attorney General's so called, "case". I owe my very freedom to this smart, honest, beautiful, trial savvy woman, and Most Excellent Attorney. If not for her, I would have been spending the rest of my life at the SCC. Thanks again Kelly !
Extremely knowledgeable, and very easy to work with. Kelly consulted on a relatively minor matter for me, and it could not have been resolved more favorably.