Lesa Machael Pamplin

My brother was arrested for a crime that he did not commit based upon his prior criminal history and guilt by association. The police allowed the actual culprits drive away, while they detained my brother and put him in jail. He retained the services of an attorney (not Lesa initially) to represent... him and help prove his innocence, but after 6 months (and more than a dozen attempts on my part to connect with him regarding my brother's case, evidence, his defense strategy)...I concluded that he'd made no effort to do so. He was too busy and encouraging us to take the "path of least resistance". In fact, he encouraged my brother (and my family) to take anything less than a 5-year sentence offered by the DA. He told us that taking his case to trial would result in a minimum 25-year sentence if my brother was found guilty. Adamant that he was innocent, my brother (while scared) did not want to go to prison for something he did not do. So, he was ready to risk going to trial. I could not allow him to go to trial with an attorney who did not appear to have time to take any action on his behalf. While he said he believed my brother was innocent of the crime, he made little-to-no attempt to obtain the evidence, polygraph, eye-witness testimony we requested. After months of non-responsiveness...and out of total desperation, I reached out to Lesa's office for a free consultation - in hopes that she could help us prove his innocence. After 6 months on probation, calling in daily, reporting for random UAs on a weekly basis and spending 2+ months sitting in jail (for a crime he did not commit)... Lesa and her staff acted with great urgency and action to help us help him! Within 2 days, he was out of jail. While monitored during this time, she was able to help get his restrictions reduced (to an 8 p.m. curfew). She was able to get access to video footage and other evidence and connect us with a highly reputable polygrapher to help build his defense. Within 2 weeks of bonding him out, she was able to take all of the evidence and the results of his polygraph to the DA and ultimately had the entire case against him thrown out. My family is so grateful to her and her legal team for preventing a flawed system from stealing the next 5+ years of his life. I will never be able to express how eternally grateful we are to Lesa for helping us get "real justice" for my brother!