Bio
I have 30 years experience as a successful criminal defense attorney in Washington handling felony and misdemeanor cases in both state and federal court.
I am fluent in the Spanish language.
My most memorable case in Texas is Hernandez v. Texas, 757 S.W.2d 744 (1988), in which co-counsel José Peña and I, reversed our client's capital murder conviction before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (we had also been the trial attorneys).
In Washington my most memorable case so far, is Tortes v. King Co., 119 Wn. App. 1 (2003), a case in which my client was severely injured when the driver of the Seattle transit bus she was riding was shot and killed by a passenger who then killed himself before plunging the bus off the Aurora Bridge.
As Associate Vice-President of International Academic Affairs for Apollo Global, I oversaw the establishment of the first online doctoral program in Latin America at Universidad de Artes y Comunicaciones (UNIACC) in Santiago, Chile in 2009.
