George Patrick Montgomery

I was a client of this attorney till firing him for incompetence. He drug my case out for a year and ruined my chances at having my case suppressed by not siting Arizona vs. Gant 556 U.S. 332 (2009). A United States Supreme Court decision holding that the Fourth Amendment to the United States Const...itution requires law enforcement officers to demonstrate an actual and continuing threat to their safety posed by an arrestee, or a need to preserve evidence related to the crime of arrest from tampering by the arrestee, in order to justify a warrantless vehicular search incident to arrest conducted after the vehicle's recent occupants have been arrested and secured. I even told him to site this and he still chose not to. Also he did not secure the video evidence from the grocery store that I was arrested at stating that there would be no audio despite the fact that it would of shown I was held unlawfully and my vehicle searched illegally without consent. By the time I fired him a year later it was to late to secure this video since the store only holds video for a months time. Also he would not return calls after calling every day for an entire month some times so very poor communication. And when George did represent me for my suppression hearing he did not file the motion to do so till the day we went to court and was only a paragraph long request to suppress for unlawful search and seizure. I had other lawyers tell me that this was the weakest effort they had ever seen put forth by a lawyer in any case in their lives. George also told me that the only plea bargain on the table was to have my misdemeanor charges dropped and I had to ask him five times to even get that as a answer as he insisted he told me four times prior but really never gave me a clear answer once. Had I not fired him I would of gone to prison for 3-5 years for a first offense no priors. George had informed me that the prosecutor would not even consider treatment in lieu of conviction as well, yet once I fired him and replaced him with a much better lawyer I was able to get treatment in lieu of conviction thus proving his power of pull with the courts and his desire to work for his clients. Most annoying of all was that he never was on time for court (as late as two hours once) except for one time I told his office worker to make sure he was there on time for once, and he gave me a huge attitude for that as well. And most unsettling and insulting he was extremely hostile by screaming in my face in his waiting room when a relative of mine had asked him if he was competent to handle criminal cases since his specialty is Social Security. Once he knew I had all I could of his poor representation from everything listed above he further tried to beg me to not let him go with further lies of having a plea bargain in the works, when two days prior he refused to call the prosecutor to work on one. When I asked his office for at least a partial refund for his poor services rendered they tried to scare tactic me as well saying I was trying to blackmail him somehow by presenting them with the services I had received. Lesson learned hire the best from the start rather then throwing away $4500 and having your case handled poorly. Had I looked for a better lawyer maybe I would of been done with my case a year earlier and not had to spent another $6500 on treatment for an illegal search and seizure in first place.