Peter Goodman

One October night in 2016, I was driving home when a CHP officer began following me some distance away for honking my horn and playing my music too loud. As I began turning into my driveway, the office sped up and I saw emergency lights approaching behind me. I proceeded up my driveway into my garag...e and my garage door began to close. The CHP officer drove his patrol car up my driveway, quickly got out of his car when he saw my garage door closing, and stuck his foot under the door to prevent that from happening. He then entered my garage and began questioning me for driving under the influence. After he ordered me to go outside, the officer arrested me for DUI. I thought what the officer did could not be legal and a top tier divorce attorney in San Francisco referred me to Peter. After Peter reviewed the video from the CHP patrol car showing everything that happened, he told me what the officer did was an illegal search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment and he would fight the case on that basis. Peter filed a motion to suppress the evidence in Superior court but the motion was denied. He appealed that ruling to the appellate division of that court but that appeal was denied. He then filed appeals in the court of appeal and the state supreme court but those were denied. Peter then told me he had contacted a professor at Stanford who specializes in criminal appeals to the United States Supreme Court and the professor wanted the constitutional law clinic that he supervised to take on my case. During the following months, Peter and I participated in Zoom meetings the clinic as the motions were filed asking the Supreme Court to accept my case, which it did in 2020. In 2021, the Supreme Court unanimously held the lower courts were wrong and it reversed the order denying my motion to suppress. During the four years that he fought my case , Peter never gave up. His skills were evident each time we appeared in court. His methodical analysis of the issues in my case was present in every brief he submitted. l highly recommend my friend, Peter Goodman Esq., to anyone seeking an expert defense lawyer.