About
Forest graduated from the University of San Diego in May of 2003, and has had a varied and exciting profession. After law school, Forest did an prolonged internship at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, the Netherlands. She become assigned to the lead prosecutor on the crew prosecuting Serbian Dictator Slobodan Milosovic for conflict crimes.
Following her time in The Hague, she labored as a research and writing legal professional for a group defending a infamous MS-13 gang member in a loss of life penalty case where it was alleged that her patron took component in the killing of a federal witness. He become acquitted of all fees. She then moved on to the Federal Public Defender for the District of Columbia and worked as a research and writing lawyer on global terrorism instances and tax evasion. Deciding that she desired to be inside the trenches, and learn how to conduct trials, she moved to California and started out her career as a tribulation attorney at the Indio Office of the Law Office of the Public Defender in Riverside County.
Forest has now been a training legal professional within the Coachella Valley for over six years. She has handled heaps of instances at the Public Defender Office in Indio, starting from municipal code violations to child molestation and rape, all the way to homicide cases.
Forest has tried many criminal instances to jury verdict, with costs as numerous as DUI, attack with a lethal weapon, domestic violence, and torture. She has an exceptional achievement rate, having now not had a patron ever sentenced to more than the prosecutor’s authentic provide. She has also finished acquittals in nicely over half of her trials, an extraordinary success price in a practice location wherein the opposite side chooses the charges, can brush aside something prices are not supported, and has the whole police pressure and a group of guide group of workers backing them up. As a end result, Prosecutors recognize that Forest will fight difficult and win every viable matter, in order that they offer her customers the most useful offers up-the front, with out gambling video games along with your time, your budget, or your life.
Forest’s innovative and provocative defenses are mythical within the local legal community. She as soon as accomplished two consecutive NOT GUILTY verdicts within a one-month length in instances regarding country prison inmates charged with owning pills. She brought different inmates (together with convicted murderers) to testify on her customers’ behalf and to support their defense. Originally mocked by way of prosecutors, who watched the case in uncommon numbers, for bringing protection witnesses who had been convicted of murder, her presentation satisfied jurors that those unusual witnesses have been straightforward (and that the corrections officers had been now not straightforward) and her clients were acquitted. Following 3 successive victories in similar situations and in opposition to corrections officer witnesses, the District Lawyer’s Office carried out a education to educate them the way to better testify in court.
Prosecutors have stated that that Forest makes them work more difficult than maximum protection lawyers, whether private attorneys or public defenders. Considering the overpowering caseload of public defenders, this indicates a willpower and work ethic that exceeds maximum in her discipline. Now in personal exercise, Forest applies that same work ethic and dedication to a lower caseload, resulting within the excellent protection available to you.
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- Criminal Appeals, Drug Crimes, Expungement, Fraud, Gun Crimes, Internet Crimes, Sex Crimes, Theft, Violent Crimes
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- Domestic Violence Criminal Defense, Domestic Violence Restraining Orders
- DUI & DWI
- Juvenile Law
- White Collar Crime
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