Horrible will show up late to court if he shows up at all.Will have secret meeting and discussions and information from the DA and purposely not disclose it to you until he gets you to sign plea deal. Doesn't work on cases, wont strategize, wont do legwork to get evidence or anything suppressed etc. ...He is truly a Chrysler 300 lawyer ,not Bentley. When I called him about my case he confuses it with other people and has even told me to go to the wrong city court before. Very unprepared and unprofessional. He will not fight hard for anybody unless you are a sassy clothing designer or fellow officer. He basically works with and not against the DA's. The apparent flashy clothes or cars are all a facade, there are def public defenders on his level who care more. Don't hire him unless you are a former/current police idc if it's free and somebody else pays. Unless you want somebody always late or never there,uninformed,not proactive at all, lazy, but entitled that wants high prices for minimum efforts/work. He had local public defense communicating working deals on his behalf for me who had relationship with the DA's.

Jackie Patterson is one of the most unprepared lawyers in GA. He represented me on a murder charge where my co-defendant told the jury he shot and killed someone and I still caught a life sentence with him being my attorney. He was very unprepared he didn't know any of the witness but took my 30 thou...sand and sent me to prison and I haven't heard from him yet. I hired an appeal lawyer who filed ineffective assistant of a counselor which was him. He came back for my motion of new trial 2 years later with nothing to help me he was lost and said he remembered hardly anything. When I say he's a real traffic lawyer that's all he is good for please don't go by the hype I'm in prison doing a life sentence cause of lack of knowing my case. I would recommend anyone with a serious felony charge to hire him because he is garbage. To top that off he has sent multiple people to prison since me my case was in fulton I lost August 20 2018 pull it. He's the worst lawyer in GA so please don't hire him if I could help someone else family not go to prison please don't waste your time hiring him you'll rather go prose.

While locked up awaiting bail, I spoke to him on the phone asking him why he wasn't fighting for a bail hearing for a 1st time offender pulled over for a traffic violation, and he told me he did what he wanted, hung up on me and didn't speak to me again until court. He's as arrogant and stupid as he ...looks. He even gave some of the money back, like that's something fair. He should've never took the case or gave all the money back. I ended up as a 1st time offender with a maximum sentence.