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| Experience: |
| Stone & Hiles, Beverly Hills, California (Associate); |
| Ward, Kroll & Jampol, Beverly Hills, California (Senior Associate); |
| Berman & Roe, Los Angeles, California (General Partner); |
| Riverside County Public Defender, Indio, California (Deputy Public Defender); |
Kennedy & Roe, Palm Springs, California (General Partner). |
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| With nearly two decades of trial experience, Attorney Roe has successfully tried every kind of case from simple assaults, to DUI's, possession for sales of controlled drugs, meth labs, burglary, robbery, sexual assault, sodomy, child abuse/endangerment to multiple murder/special circumstance cases, Attorney Roe has amassed an impressive list of wins, historic and renown. |
In 2006, she obtained acquittals for her client on all murder counts in the famous Eagle Mountain double murder trial. With 8 charged co-defendants at the commencement of trial, Eagle Mountain was the largest murder case in the State of California in the years 2005-2006. Attorney Roe's client was the only defendant of the eight charged to walk out of jail a free man. |
In 2007, she successfully tried one of the most publicized cases in the Coachella Valley, a salacious sexual assault case stemming from allegations by a patient at Desert Regional Medical Center against a 13 year veteran nursing assistant. The jury, after hearing the evidence and the witnesses for the defense, acquitted the defendant of all 6 felony sexual assault counts brought by the District Attorney's Office. |
February 2009, Attorney Roe obtained a discharge at preliminary hearing for a client on all felony counts including attempted first degree murder, mayhem, assault with a deadly weapon (firearm), and conspiracy. Cross-examination of an eye-witness to the shooting revealed the shooter actually fled in a white/silver Lincoln Towncar, and not a tan or gold-colored Cadillac (which the defendant was known to drive) as reported to law enforcement.Curiously, neither law enforcement nor the District Attorney of Riverside County ever pursued leads of an unrelated traffic stop on a white Lincoln Towncar made within a few miles of the incident and within one hour and ten minutes after the shooting. Encrypted dispatch logs revealed: (i) the seizure of a handgun from the towncar (and of note: two missing rounds, the same number of shots heard by a witness to the shooting); and (ii) the subsequent arrest of two hispanic males (the shooter was identified as an hispanic male). |
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In June 2009, after a 5 week bank robbery trial (4 banks), Attorney Roe successfully obtained a dismissal of all money laundry counts and gang enhancements (which would have boosted her client's exposure 100 years), acquittals on 3 grand theft auto charges, and a post-trial order by the court vacating ten jury verdicts due to the government's failure to produce evidence (both before and during trial) revealing a compromise of the integrity of DNA evidence that had been proffered by the government in that trial.
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In November 2009, Attorney Roe tried a 21 count, 3 week torture, robbery, burglary, false imprisonment case pro bono publico. The case was selected by the Law Firm of Kennedy & Roe as the accused was representing himself after a 13 year battle through the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal, with reversal and remand to the Superior Court for trial. Kennedy & Roe vigorously represented the accused free of charge for 18 months through verdict and maintains that the Riverside County District Attorney's Office was ethically bound to recuse itself after it was learned the complaining witness was then employed by the very agency prosecuting the accused and that the complaining witness had access to the governments file's and had even worked on same (evidencing a conflict of interest). Attorney Roe successfully halted the government's attempts to allege one-strike rape counts at the eleventh hour, almost 13 years after initial pleadings had been filed. At trial, Attorney Roe argued the matter was over-charged, that the evidence did not support a torture count as the complaining witness did not sustain great bodily injury, that she waited 2 days to seek medical attention for a hoarse throat (and only did so because victim-witness advocate suggested she do so, not because she needed to), that she did not have x-rays, medication, hospitalization or any further medical follow-up after the initial visit. Case is pending appeal on numerous grounds.
Recently, after a 3 week jury trial of 7 counts of child molestation and/or rape of 3 girls, a hung jury returned ballots of 7-5 Not Guilty on 4 counts and 8-4 Not Guilty on the remaining 3 counts for Attorney Roe's client. Mistrial was declared and new trial dates are pending.
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