About
Tom became born and raised in Youngstown, OH. He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD in 1969 and from George Washington Law School, Washington, DC in 1973. He become admitted to practice in Maryland via the Court of Appeals on December 27, 1973. Since his admission, he has never been the issue of any complaints or disciplinary complaints. He has a very unblemished document with the Bar.
After law college Tom clerked a year for the Hon. E. Mackall Childs inside the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, Maryland earlier than spending years as a staff attorney with the Office of the Public Defender. Since 1975, he has been in non-public exercise.
In the mid 1990s, Tom started out to focus his practice on defending toddler sex abuse instances. Since then, he has devoted his exercise exclusively to sex crimes protection. Over the closing two decades he has represented loads of customers for the duration of the united states. He has been admitted pro hac vice as protection recommend on the trial and/or appellate level on crook baby sexual abuse instances in Massachusetts, Florida, West Virginia, Virginia, Utah, Kansas, Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, the District of Columbia and Georgia.
Tom has also been admitted pro hac vice as Amicus Curiae recommend for the False Memory Syndrome Foundation on briefs submitted to, and widespread through, the Supreme Courts of Texas, Rhode Island, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Illinois (two times), Georgia, Wisconsin, California, New Hampshire (two times) and Massachusetts, as well as two divisions of the California Court of Appeals and america Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.
At the appellate level, Tom, running along side the Office of the Public Defender, received a reversal of a infant sexual abuse conviction on the Kansas Supreme Court. See State v. Plaskett, 27 P.3d 890 (Kan. 2001).
He and Mark Mack also prevailed earlier than the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on a child abuse conviction regarding issues of competency and taint as matters of first influence. See Com. v. Delbridge, 885 A.2d 27 (Pa.2003).
Tom has a unique interest in protecting infant intercourse abuse cases in which the complainants are pre-faculty or very younger youngsters. In many instances, incompetent social workers and other zealots who investigate allegations of abuse influence the youngsters to make sure statements by using the manner they interview the kids. This mental suggestion gives upward thrust to the prison concept of “taint.”
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Premier Defense Group
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Law Offices of Thomas A. Pavlinic
1975
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Graduation year: 1973
Graduation year: 1969
