About
After attending the USA Coast Guard Academy, I transferred to the University of Florida. There, I labored my way via college and regulation faculty as a complete-time police officer and police Sgt. On commencement, I became appointed the first lawyer for the Gainesville Police Department. Later, I become appointed General Counsel for the Orange County Sheriff s Office and Legal Advisor to the 10 town police corporations in Orange County, Florida. I attended the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and did a put up-doctoral program at Case Western Reserve University in Public Safety Law. I m a Past President of the Fla. Assn. of Police Lawyers, and a Past Vice President of the Central Florida Criminal Justice Council. I taught within the Florida Regional Police Academies throughout Central Florida. I taught Constitutional Law within the undergraduate Criminal Justice Program at Columbia College, and Criminal Law & Procedure inside the Masters in Criminal Justice Program at Rollins College. I was a prosecutor in two Florida Judicial circuits and an Assistant Lawyer General for The State of Florida. For two years I became a felony analyst for Fox News. I even spent 3 years as an Assistant Public Defender to advantage additional trial enjoy. It became my privilege to be defense counsel in the nation s first four DNA proof trials. With forty nine years within the exercise of law, I have treated over two hundred criminal trials. While representing George Zimmerman, I had the possibility to appear on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and Fox News from New York.
I have been a law office proprietor for over forty years, and feature had the privilege of handling thousands of instances and participating in hundreds of trials. Currently, I am the founding father of Associated Law Groups, d/b/a The Defense Group, with offices in Orlando and Tavares, Florida. We cope with criminal regulation topics throughout Central Florida.
On a personal stage, I had been thankfully married to the affection of my lifestyles for over fifty eight years. We have four kids and eleven grandchildren.
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Legal Issues
We offer extra than a mere \\"session.\\" We overview your arrest affivdavit, offer an initial analysis of your case, and a strategy consultation as to the alternatives going ahead. We will quote you a flat rate (excluding viable trial expenses) and endorse of our fee plan. We discover that most of our customers appreciate a flat and positive rate upfront in order to plan for the financial impact of a crook case. This session can be in individual, through video convention or with the aid of cellphone inside the discretion of the cllient.
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Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
- Spanish: Spoken, Written
Accepted Jurisdictions