Michael V Lastowski

There was an option to give a rating of zero stars. The court appointed Lastowski to my case. In the first and only meeting with him he told me to plead guilty, that was his brilliant defense strategy. He did not return my subsequent phone calls and I had to dismiss him and borrow money from frie...nds to hire an attorney since the court appointed defense attorneys are worth every penny the defendants pay them, nothing. https://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2019/06/28/cgb-county-weighs-in-on-local-state-battle-to-improve-public-defender-system/

Mr Lastowski represented me in a case. I ended up doing fairly well overall, because of his efforts. The in-justice system is a painful process. You are not always going to be happy. I interacted with a few other attorneys as well. I was not impressed. When we went to court, I was glad Mr. La...stowski was on "My" side and not opposing me.

He is not a good lawyer by any means, my girlfriend just recently had to deal with him in court. She truly is not guilty of her crime, and the only thing he offered her is a plea bargain for a plea in obeyence. She specifically ask for this to not be the outcome. When she said that was not what she w...anted he said "fine but we are going to loose" and told the judge he needed a trial date. Then he stormed out of the courtroom leaving the judge, and my girlfriend standing there in confusion. A plea of obeyence is an admission of guilt, and she is being pushed through The system and bullied around. This is not justice and I am sick of the way the system does this to people. And he does have misconduct by the way, he was arrested in 2010 for doctor shopping. And he looks like he had some drugs in his system in his booking photo. He does not take his job of defending his clients seriously because he doesn't get paid to.