Our Firm

Being charged with a crime can put your freedom, livelihood, reputation and future at risk. That’s why you need a team of skilled criminal defense lawyers with real courtroom experience.

More than 45 years of combined legal experience means that criminal defense attorneys Maddox Kilgore and Carlos Rodriguez understand the challenges you face when you find yourself in need of an advocate, and they have the knowledge, expertise and proven track record to make a difference in your case. As a firm exclusively devoted to defending people charged with crimes, Kilgore & Rodriguez has tried and won a wide variety of complex criminal defense cases including murder, child molestation, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, vehicular homicide, hijacking, kidnapping, armed robbery, RICO (racketeering), fraud, forgery, domestic violence, drug trafficking, burglary, and theft.

Maddox Kilgore is a former felony prosecutor himself, providing a deep understanding of exactly how the State prepares to prosecute a case. In both prosecuting and defending dozens of jury trials, Maddox and Carlos have questioned or cross-examined a wide variety of experts and professional witnesses such as police officers, homicide detectives, medical examiners, chemists, toxicologists, firearms examiners, blood spatter experts, DNA scientists, arson investigators, cell phone experts, medical doctors, bankers, and child abuse experts.

Having both grown up in the Marietta and Smyrna community, Maddox and Carlos are proud to call Marietta, GA home for their law firm as they vigorously defend criminal cases across greater metro Atlanta including Cobb, Bartow, Cherokee, Douglas, Fulton and Paulding counties.