About
I became first employed inside the area of criminal justice in 1983. I labored for the Indiana University Police Department and become a regulation enforcement officer on the Bloomington, Indiana, campus. I graduated from Indiana University in 1985 with B.S. with a first-rate in crook justice.
I got here to Florida in December 1985, when my Dad s business enterprise transferred him from Indianapolis to Orlando. I became a Florida State Trooper in 1987. As a Trooper, I concept that the most thrilling part of my job changed into going to Court. Thus, I decided to visit law faculty.
I commenced a Nova University Law School in 1990 and graduated inside the summer of 1993. I participated in a Florida licensed criminal internship application inside the summer time of 1993 that allowed me to prosecute instances and represent the State of Florida in jury trials for the State Lawyer s Office in Orlando.
After taking the Florida Bar Exam in February of 1994, I started operating on the State Lawyer s Office in Sanford, Florida, and then later came returned to the Orlando States Lawyer s Office.
In 1997, I began my very own law practice and changed into married quickly thereafter. My spouse, Aurora, who's at the beginning from Honduras, helped me to turn out to be fluent in Spanish. We have 4 boys.
I actually have revel in that few other lawyers can in shape, the enjoy of having been a regulation enforcement officer, a prosecutor, and a defense legal professional. I experience practicing law and always make it my aim to symbolize clients to the excellent of my capability.
Education: Indiana University, B.S. in Criminal Justice (1985)
Nova University, Juris Doctor (1993)
Bar has membershipships: Florida Bar- Admitted May 6th, 1994
U.S. District Court, Middle District- Admitted 1998
U.S. District Court, Northern District- Admitted 2009
U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit- Admitted 1998
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Location
Videos
Legal Issues
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Appeals, Drug Crimes, Expungement, Fraud, Gun Crimes, Internet Crimes, Sex Crimes, Theft, Violent Crimes
- DUI & DWI
Costs
Certificates
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
- Spanish: Spoken
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Assistant Public Defender
Office of the Public Defender- 5th Circuit
2019 - Assistant State Lawyer
Office of the State Lawyer- 18th and 9th Circuit
1994 - Florida State Trooper
Florida Highway Patrol
1987 - police officer
Indiana University Police Department
1983
