Raymond M. Espersen

In 1997 I was appointed Raymond Espersen as my attorney. He blatantly took advantage of the fact that it was my first time in jail and did not know a single thing about the law, and also took advantage of the fact that I was highly medicated on psychiatric medication. While in jail I was informed by ...another inmate that I could do a trial by judge, which would have given me a lesser sentence than the plea deal I eventually took. When I told Raymond Espersen that I wanted to do a trial by judge, he lied to me and told me that was not an available option for me. When I told him I heard from another inmate that it was an option, he told me the inmate didn't know what he was talking about and who was I going to believe, an inmate, or my attorney. I believed his lie, and was pushed into taking a plea deal. He was very deceiving in lying to me so. He took advantage of me being highly medicated on psychiatric medication to push me into signing a plea deal. He knew that I was not in my right mind, knew that I was unable to process the information that I was being given and had me sign a plea deal. He further more lied to me, by telling me if I took the plea deal of 35 yrs., That I would come up for parole after serving one third of my sentence. It wasn't until after he persuaded me to sign the plea agreement that, when I got to prison, that I found out that I had to serve half of the sentence to come up for parole. Raymond Espersen is lying, deceiving, and is not interested in truly helping his client. If anyone is appointed Raymond Espersen I would suggest immediately firng him and ask for different representation, and certainly NO ONE should ever pay him to represent you. My name is Nathan Strickland and have not one good thing to say about attorney Raymond Espersen.