Samuel F Eastman

If you are innocent of a crime and know it, then Sam Ea is NOT the attorney for you. Eastman is a member of the majority of Defense Attorneys that make their living helping the criminal prosecutors get convections the easy way. Like Sam Eastman, these pseudo defense lawyers started their careers work...ing as public defenders. They, the courts, and prosecutors understand their role is not to get the accused a fair trial but to circumvent trails and put convictions in the win column of police, sheriffs, courts, and prosecutors. Eastman did that to me. Not a fair trial or pretense of a defense of my innocence. He worked with the prosecutors to get me to accept a plea bargain volunteering to being found guilty while innocent in exchange for a softer punishment for crimes NOT committed. I was Innocent and knew it. Eastman, the no-defense attorney, got me to pay him a big retainer in cash, ($1000). By assuring me of his expert and caring defense. He then planted his Hook by agreeing to let me make monthly $200 payments on his fee of $2500. The payment agreement was a tool for him to Hook me with for a future landing, forcing me to agree to his deal with the prosecutor last-minute. I am 77 years old and retired from teaching. I never in my life and career as a public-school teacher have experienced being charged with a crime much less had any experience with the local court system. Consequently, I had no idea how I was set up to become an innocent but convicted criminal by the verbal sleight of Eastman's hand. My charge misdemeanor disorderly conduct was based on a made-up story of a deputy seeking promotion. After calling available local attorneys, I picked Eastman out of the lawyer listing as his 'ad' indicated he would serve nearby counties. After my initial phone interview with him, I sent him the retainer of $1000 cash and agreed to pay $200 monthly for $1600. I sent Eastman my write-up of precisely what had happened as well as paper copies of the deputy's false statement and including the false statement by two witnesses. I spent a couple of days numbering the sentences on these three statements and writing a line by line rebuttal of all three of them. I further sent Eastman a copy of my Veterans clinic hearing test certifying my 95 % service-connected hearing loss. Also, explaining my not being provided the US Americans With Disabilities Act mandated accommodations to be delivered to hearing disable persons. None of these were looked at by Eastman. He ignored my instructions to plead 'not guilty,' ask for a jury trial. And issue summonses as adverse witnesses the deputy and three other witnesses. He ignored over twenty emails, and phone calls to him at his office, requesting a conference to discuss his strategy for my defense. He was working for the prosecution rather than his client by assumed me guilty. He waited until the last minute before the hearing to inform me of the excellent plea deal he had negotiated with the prosecutor. I was to plead guilty and would receive three months' probation and agree to get anger management counseling at the VA clinic. The 'Hook' was, Eastman said, "although he could not legally give me credit for the remaining $1400 balance, but he would dissolve that payment agreement, mark it paid in exchange for my' cooperation'. The afternoon before court I ask him to name the people called as witnesses. None of the people I had asked him to summon were. These were deputy author of the falsified charging statement, and a couple of his subordinates used to collaborate his false testimony. I light of this and his Hook, I felt I had no choice. It was pointless for me to pay him more.

I CONTACTED MR EASTMAN'S LAW OFFICE, LEFT MESSAGE, HE RETURNED MY CALL QUICKLY, INITIALLY WE DISCUSSED MY SITUATION, HE LOOKED OVER THE CHARGES, WE DISCUSSED THE CASE, HE AGREEED TO REPERSENT ME, FROM THE FIRST CONTACT HE PUT ME AS EASE, THE COMMUNITION I ENJOYED WITH HIS OFFICE WAS ALWAYS A-1, GR...EAT IS THE STAFF AT THE OFFICE THEY WERE HELPUL ALWAYS, FRIENDLY WITHOUT FAIL, AND VERY KNOWLAGEABLE, CANNOT PRAISE THEM ENOUGH, AS FOR MR EASTMAN FROM FRIST CONTACT TO CONCLUSION OF THE CASE, HIS WORKING FOR ME, COMMUTICATING THROUGH-OUT, DISPELLING MY FRET AND FEAR WAS WITH OUT DEBATE THE VERY BEST, THE EASTMAN LAW OFFICE DESERVES 11 OUT OF 5 STARS, I CANNOT EXPRESS MY GRATITUE AND RESPECT I HAVE FOR SAM EASTMAN, TO SAY HE IS EXTREEMLY HIGHLY RECOMENDED, IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT, PROUD TO BE HIS CLIENT...JACK