Jacqueline Ricciani

This woman has a knack for defending the wrong people, and undermining or demonizing completely innocent people. Sometimes simultaneously. I have six siblings, but my youngest sister was the only child who gave our family any trouble. She frequently harrassed my parents; lied about her teachers, ...friends, family, and boyfriends; and in general could not even accept that she was at fault regardless of the situations she put herself in. We're talking false accusions of sexual misconduct by people at church and a photographer hired by her school, to refusing to clean her bedroom until mold grew in bowls and along the side of her bed. She finally ran away from home after she was encouraged by her brand new, drug dealing friends to do so. She claimed my mother beat her with a belt buckle over 25 times and that she "could barely walk" -- despite hiking over 15 miles to her new boyfriends house and back the very next day (after being allowed to sleep over in a known drugdealering house is Port Jervis, with a group of peers with no adult supervision, by CPS). The bruises that CPS took pictures of as evidence looked like she had several pebble-sized, light bruises -- any doctor could have immediately proven she was not viciously beaten with a belt buckle until she couldn't stand. Yet this woman believed every lie that my sister told her. She also made up her own lies, claiming that my sister had no access to her clothes and that they were being intentionally stopped from picking them up; that my sister wasn't "educated" enough; tried to make the judge attempt to force my other sister, who is over 18, to speak to my youngest sister; and assumed countless false situations that didn't happen. This woman enabled a mentally unstable teenager in recklessly lying to the court, and encouraged my sister to live in a group home (which she left as quickly as possible and immediately got pregnant). She aided and abetted a young woman destroy her relationship with her family during her adolescence; and now that our dad has passed she has no chance to reconcile with him. If I sat here the dredged up all the details about the situation and how this lawyer made everything worse, I could write for hours. Suffice it to say that you should consider another representitive in court before hiring her as your attourney.