About
I labored hard at scripting this component, as it does no longer come smooth for me; so I wish you'll sincerely read it. I have attempted over 500 jury trials,civil and crook, and limitless choose and administrative trials, motions and hearings. Over 25 of my appeals had been posted. I even have had two legal articles posted and I even have given presentations on kingdom constitutional torts at the Montana Trial Lawyers Annual Convention. During my 21 years in Montana, I changed into considered one of the fine DUI attorneys within the nation, being hired usually to present continuing criminal training lessons to other lawyers on that subject. Some of my cases prompted statewide adjustments within the regulation, which includes:(1) the HGN eye test now denied use in DUI trials besides underneath constrained circumstances;(2 A case I dealt with start to finish which installed a brand new right to sue police or every body else, for money damages, for violating a person s rights beneath the Montana State Constitution;(3) Another case of mine hooked up that police coordination assessments in DUI/DWI cases are searches that violate the 4th Amendment absent a particularized suspicion of ingesting and riding;(4) I had Montana s entire set of statutes plus a hundred years of exercise of using ex parte Writs of Execution to look for, capture and promote peoples private assets to pay off judgments held unconstitutional for violating due method, the 4th Amendment, and different rights; (five) I had a federal courtroom of appeals rule a disorderly behavior statute to be unconstitutional on its face and as carried out by using the police and courts and won an order to prevent the usage of that statute, forever; (6) I had every other federal court of appeals rule that Montana s written be aware to motorists that their motive force s license might be seized if they did not take a breath take a look at to be complete of constitutional violations totally on due procedure grounds, and the State needed to stop using it. Myself and an legal professional from the Montana Lawyer General s Office wrote a brand new word which is basically the identical one getting used nowadays. I am a 12 year. member of the National College for DUI Defense and changed into lately requested to use for the Board of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Ass n. I do now not work all of the time, however. After not seeing her for 35 years, I "re-met" and married my excessive school sweetheart in 2004 and relocated from Red Lodge, Montana, to Austin, Texas, my domestic state and wherein I were given my training. I like to fly fish, hike, jog, study, consume out or in or anywhere else,journey, play the banjo and guitar and sing track. I love true conversations and watching the Texas Longhorns. I even have a beautiful 27 year antique daughter. I grew up on a cattle ranch at Cut n Shoot, in Bernard Law Montgomery County, Texas. My own family moved to Texas two years earlier than the Alamo, and I actually have a brand certificate to show it. My circle of relatives has fought in almost each battle this u . s . a . has had, from the French & Indian War, the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the War Between the States to World War I, World War II and the Korean War. I turned into taught to recognize human beings in addition to mom nature, to honor my elders, to talk the reality in all matters, to treat people like I need to be dealt with, and to say, "Yes ma am" and "no ma am", "sure sir" and "no sir," and I still do. › ›
Location
Legal Issues
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
- Asbestos & Mesothelioma
- Car Accidents
- Constitutional Law
- General Civil
- Insurance Bad Faith
Costs
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Free Consultation
Free initial consultation. - Payment With Credit Card
- Conditional Fees
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Retaines and Rates
Pay plans available.
Certificates
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Owner/President
Thomas Law Office, P.C.
1983 - Executive Director
EAST TEXAS LEGAL SERVICES
1977 - Staff Lawyer -- Managing Lawyer -- Director
South Dakota Legal Services
1972
Educations
Graduation year: 1968
Graduation year: 1964
