The trial record speaks for itself.
More than thirty-three years of criminal defense practice. More than 100 jury trials. Several thousand cases handled to completion. The kind of record that changes what the prosecution puts on the table — and what makes that offer worth taking, when it is.
Important: Past results do not guarantee or predict future outcomes. Each case turns on its specific facts, the applicable law, and the prosecution’s evidence. No attorney can promise a particular result; what experience offers is the trained judgment to assess what an honest range of outcomes looks like for your situation.
Most criminal cases resolve before trial. The ones that resolve well — dismissed at motions, reduced to lesser charges, pled to outcomes that preserve the client’s record — resolve that way because the prosecution knows the defense is prepared to try the case if it has to. Trial readiness is what changes the offer.
Trying a hundred-plus cases changes how a defense lawyer reads a file. Prosecutors know which defense lawyers actually try cases and which ones don’t, and they price their offers accordingly. Richard’s record is part of why the work he does at the negotiation stage produces the offers it does.
None of this is a promise about your case. Cases are decided on their facts, the applicable law, and the evidence. What experience offers is judgment — the kind that comes from having seen the bad outcomes as well as the good ones, in courts across the Denver metro, in front of judges and juries who have their own tendencies, in cases where the right move was the obvious one and in cases where it wasn’t.
Practicing since
1993
Trial record
100+ jury trials
Cases handled
Several thousand
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Until then, prospective clients can hear about results the way most clients always have: by asking Richard directly during the free consultation.
Pretrial motions.
Suppression of evidence obtained through unlawful stops, searches, or interrogations. Challenges to charging decisions. Motions to dismiss before trial. The evidentiary record on which the case will rest, fought for at the front end.
Negotiated outcomes.
Reduced charges, deferred sentences, diversions, alternative dispositions, sealing eligibility. The work of getting a plea offer that protects what the client has — their record, their license, their job, their immigration status — from the consequences that the original charge would have imposed.
Jury trials.
When trial is the right answer, the case is tried. Voir dire, opening statements, cross-examination, closing arguments — the work that’s on television, except real, with consequences that follow the client out of the courtroom either way.
Ask Richard about your case.
Free, confidential consultation. The first conversation is with Richard, not a screener. You’ll get an honest assessment of what your case looks like and what the realistic outcomes are.