Genelle Johnson

I had hired her due to the PD office as well and was sorely disappointed. How can you defend a person you do not interview or work with in any way? No correspondence, no phone calls returned, I was clueless as to what was happening in my case. No trial preparation was ever made and did not ask me f...or witnesses, just merely plead out a case that may have been winnable at trial. I was the one to point out several errors the Prosecutor had made even with my limited knowledge of law. Nice lady, just not sure she is in the right profession.

She was my lawyer (thanx to the public defenders office) for 2.5 months and in that whole time she wouldn't return my 5 phone calls, nor the attempt to get ahold of her by her boss. She meets me for the FIRST time 2 minutes before my pretrial hearing and the first thing out of her mouth is "plea". No...t at one time in 2.5 months did she try to reach me and discuss my case. I tell her no we're going to trial. SHE says "I don't want a trial, you'll have to get another lawyer". WTF?! Then her and the prosecutor (who looked disappointed I wouldn't plea) have a little tet to tet on the side and boy if they didn't look like GOOD FRIENDS. I think she had another case in the works she was willing to throw me under the bus for, that's my opinion. I told her she SHOULD be a prosecutor if she's gonna plea on a simple case that will be won in a trial. She's no defense attorney by any stretch of the imagination. i feel sorry for her present and future clients because I don't think they know what a lousy attorney she is.

Genelle Johnson would be better off as practicing as a prosecutor than a criminal defense attorney. She was appointed for me by the State Public Defender’s Office to handle an appeal on my behalf. She did not keep me updated, did not listen to my suggestions and refused to fight for me. In fact,... she refused to raise the issues I requested in the court of appeals. Guess what? The court of appeals said she was wrong; not once, but twice. The court of appeals shot the appeal back to her because she erred. What did she do the second time around? The same thing! The court of appeals shot it back, again. I got rid of her at that point. She does not understand a lawyer is an advocate and is supposed to operate in her clients’ best interest. She just doesn’t get it. Don’t waste your time. She is incompetent. Hire someone else. She will get you no where in the court room. Her legal skills are neither respected nor feared in the local legal community.