Location
Montana
Details
Client shoots husband’s girlfriend off husband’s lap. Bullet enters her neck, exits the back, near the spine. Attempted murder charged.
Result
Client pleads to criminal endangerment, receives house arrest based on evidence of a drug interaction.
Location
Montana
Details
Client murders girlfriend in a manner approximating torture, all on an open 911 line. State seeks death penalty.
Result
Murder charge dismissed. Client pleads to the equivalent of voluntary manslaughter.
Location
Montana
Details
Drifter charged with kidnap/murder. State seeks death penalty.
Result
Murder charge dismissed. Client pleads to kidnapping following the state’s polygraph expert taking the Fifth on an ethics matter. Used polygraph evidence to convince prosecutor of client’s limited role in the murder.
Location
Wyoming
Details
Deliberate Homicide charged as a result of two pistol slugs being fired into sleeping husband’s brain. Client walked down to the police station in her nightgown, confessed to premeditated murder.
Result
Despite confession, plea negotiation resulted in charge reduction to voluntary manslaughter, with a chance of parole in three to four years, based on a possible drug interaction defense.
Location
Georgia
Details
19-year-old Virgin Island Rastafarian charged with murdering 19-year-old college baseball star in small southern town. Trial heavily attended by the Ku Klux Klan.
Result
Acquittal. Services offered pro bono to client with no friends or family in the US and to prevent what was likely to be a legal lynching. Received NAACP Criminal Justice Award for successful pro bono representation. Being threatened by the Ku Klux Klan was a fringe benefit.
