John W McBee

Immediately, 0 stars is the most appropriate number of stars he deserves but it is impossible to leave 0 stars. I was a indigent client and the court appointed John McBee as my Pro Bono attorney. I am confident in saying it was the best news the prosecution received that day. I was incarcerated at Pe...rryville Women’s Prison and was determined to change my lifestyle. I had made incredible strides in turning my life around including being accepted onto the Perryville Female Firecrew when new charges were brought against me. John McBee promised to file a motion to have me returned to the prison to secure my position on the fire squad. This would also make it possible for me to continue my drug rehab classes and other social skills classes I was involved in. The motion was never filed. This was just one out of several instances that he never followed through with. Most of the time when I had a question his message box was full and it was impossible to leave a message or question. When I did manage to get through to his secretary and leave a message, he never returned my phone calls. He ignored several emails and phone messages from my father that I had given permission for John McBee to contact. And again, very often a full message box. He came to the jail twice and I was in the jail for just short of 6 months. He never asked for a written statement of my side of the events in question to look for discrepancies in the police report. My parents hired a private detective, he didn’t return the private investigators phone calls. These calls and notes from the private investigator were imperative to my defense. John McBee needed to go over the numerous errors from the police report and obvious holes in the case. The couple of times John McBee did speak to the private investigator he promised to meet him in person! This never happened. The pleas he kept showing me in court were not only ludicrous, they were never even close to an acceptable plea, especially considering the changes I had made and actual actions of proof that I was turning my life around. In my opinion he is definitely inept and shouldn’t be practicing law at all. He is an inadequate, unresponsive and bottom line a terrible criminal defense attorney for anyone. He will look you in the eyes and lie. He has very limited communication skills. Actually screamed in the phone at my mother for questioning his plan of action. He might as well of worked for the prosecution. My parents had to hire a private attorney to take over my case. Within a month my case was taken care of with the concurrent sentence I had asked John to get. Forewarned is forearmed!

This lawyer is a joke. He doesn't take any initiative with his cases; he refuses to look into anything I've brought to his attention regarding my discovery, & he blatantly ignores my attempts to contact him. Even members of my family tried to get in contact with him about my case & he ignored them to...o. When I bring the things he's neglected to do to his attention, he'll outright lie about ignoring my attempts to contact him & he will just make up anything he can to make himself look like he's not completely disregarding my case & me as a person. After all of my court dates, he has always come up with some excuse as to why he can't stay & discuss my case with me. A few mornings he literally RAN AWAY from me & somehow was able to disappear into an elevator before I even fully exited the courtroom. I wouldn't even wish this kind of representation on my worst enemy. If you ever happen to be unlucky enough to get represented by this "lawyer", I would suggest that you do everything in your power to get new representation, & that you do it very quickly.