Charles Norris Guthrie

Guthrie was court-assigned to handle my appeal. He was rude, condescending and didn't listen to me; I never tried to tell him how to file an appeal, but I was at the trial, he wasn't. I had valuable insight (like issues that were missing from record) but he refused to listen. When he submitted the s...o-called appeal to the Appellate court, in a nutshell it said he found nothing worth appealing. Zuhhh?!? Highly-prejudicial, unauthenticated evidence was introduced to the jury IN DEFIANCE of the judge's ruling. The judge said nothing, my defense said nothing. That alone was potential grounds for reversal...but Guthrie said he didn't find anything. Well that could be because ENTIRE SECTIONS of the transcript were missing; there was no record whatsoever of the either closing arguments or sentencing....Guthrie didn't even notice. He believes he provided a "thorough appellate review." How can his review be "thorough" when 30% of the material wasn't there--and he didn't even NOTICE it wasn't there? So because of that squandered opportunity, I had to a habeas petition and get the most SEVERE review because the court's mentality is: you had a trial and were convicted, you had an appeal and nothing was found...why are you bothering us again? Not only would I NOT recommend this guy, in my opinion you would LITERALLY be better off defending yourself.

Mr. Guthrie is by far an outstanding attorney. He is caring, nurturing, honest, and goes to the extreme to defend what he believes is right. He will stand for his clients rights, and does spend quality time with me to further analize and unscramble many misconceptions of my character. Thank you M...r. Guthrie for believing in me and for making a ten year mandatory minimum go away!