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Posted by anonymous | March 26, 2018 | Hired Attorney

A lot of money for a poor result

Hired Jeannie Mucklestone to defend me against a bogus charge. I personally had to take time off of work to attend every single court date (of which there were 7 or 8). Very poor communication - I never heard from them unless they were calling to confirm the date of another court date I had to atte...nd. I'm not sure about the reviews saying Jeannie handled their case without them having to appear in court - that was not my experience at all. Case dragged on for a year with no negotiation and Ms. Mucklestone was not able to get the case dismissed. Paid $6500 for absolutely nothing. Would never hire again and would advise anyone in a similar situation to hire literally anyone else. Hiring Ms. Mucklestone made a bad situation exponentially worse.

Posted by anonymous | December 12, 2016 | Hired Attorney

Look Elsewhere For DUI Defense

Be aware that by hiring Jeannie Mucklestone's office, you are not hiring Jeannie Mucklestone. For all I know, Jeannie Mucklestone herself might be the greatest DUI defense attorney to ever walk the earth. Unfortunately, I spoke to Ms. Mucklestone exactly 4 times during the time I employed her. My ...case was otherwise handled by several seemingly inexperienced junior attorneys from her office. Pretrial hearings in my case dragged on or nearly a year, during which time Ms. Mucklestone's office was unable to negotiate with the prosecutor at all. The initial plea bargain offer that was made at my first pretrial hearing remained unchanged for the duration of the case. This "offer" was to plead guilty to a DUI. Ms. Mucklestone and her team repeatedly advised me to take this offer. I did not, because A) I did not commit a DUI, and B) I did not pay an astronomical sum of money to a private attorney so that I could accept the first prosecution offer (an offer that was so bereft of benefit to me that it would have been offered to me regardless of who my attorney was) with no negotiation. Eventually, I decided to take my case to a trial. Since the difference between the worst possible outcome of a trial and the prosecutions plea offer was completely inconsequential, I had essentially nothing to lose, with the exception of more money, because the initial astronomical sum I'd paid did not cover a trial - that would cost extra (in retrospect, the fact that Ms. Mucklestone and her attorneys stand to profit by failing to negotiate plea bargains for their clients might explain a lot of things). I was repeatedly advised that this was foolish and that I should plead to the DUI. I declined. Almost immediately after the case was set for trial, the prosecution made a new plea offer to a lesser charge than DUI, which I accepted. So, to summarize, I achieved a more favorable outcome to my case than I would have had I listened to the advice of Ms. Mucklestone and her team. I'm not the smartest man on earth; far from it. If I am a sharper legal mind than an attorney, I would contend that said attorney is probably not worth $6,500. Furthermore, since no negotiation took place, I have no doubt that I could have achieved a similar outcome in my case with a public defender without now being in debt up to my eyeballs. Ms. Mucklestone and her team did not help me, and frankly did not appear, in my opinion, to be particularly interested in helping me. I would never, under any circumstances, hire them to represent me in any matter ever again.

Posted by Dan | December 17, 2012

Failed!

I hired Jeannie for a traffic ticket. She failed to get me off on a technicality, then recommended I plead to another offense that still put points on my license. I would not hire her again.

Jeannie Mucklestone

Replied last December 18, 2012

Dan's ticket was amended to a non-moving violation that will not affect Dan's insurance at all. His driving record remains free of the moving violation he retained me to defend.

Posted by david | August 15, 2010

Terrible communication.

I was a client of Mucklestone's. I had a ticket for going 35 in 25 mph zone. Her communication with her clients is poor with her firm not contacting me till the very end where they decided it was a good idea to accept the deal of neglegent driving instead of going on to having it dismissed. The fact ...that she herself didn't call me and instead had a junior counselor in her firm contest the ticket was even more troubleing. I would not use this service as my ticket was only reduced by $30 making a $500 into something more like an $800 with her service fees. I have simply not had a favorable experience with this firm because of the lack of communication and thier inability and or unwillingness to proceed with trying to dismiss this ticket make me question myself as to "What did I just pay for?"

Jeannie Mucklestone

Replied last August 30, 2010

This client's speeding infraction was amended to a violation that will not show up on his driving record at all. It was NOT amended to negligent driving. All of his options were discussed with him in advance of his hearing and he chose to accept the offer that the prosecutor made. He did not tell me he was unhappy in any way until this review was posted.

Posted by Gary | October 29, 2009

Poor Representation

Jeannie seems to get great reviews from most people, so my review may seem unreasonably negative, however: - 1) She did not win for me (had that been the only issue I just would not have bothered writing this review). 2) She did not take notice of what I believe was significant information in my c...ase & effectively deprived me of the opportunity of making a better job of it by representing myself. I believe I have reasonable expectations of traffic attorneys. I know the fee does not buy much of their time. They are only going to take a procedural approach, they are not going research and present a complicated case. Knowing that, I made it clear to Jeannie and her team that I had something I wanted to present to the court myself. Apparently Jeannie's tactics involve a whole lot of postponement and rescheduling, but when it came to the crunch, if all else had failed, I wanted to be in court and I wanted the opportunity to present my own case. After being assured by Jeannie , several times , that I would not be needed in court, I learned that my case had been heard and that I had been found guilty in my absence. I obtained a recording of the hearing and it was clear that the lawyer sent by Jeannie to represent me had nothing significant to say on my behalf. Jeannie may be great at the procedural game, but ultimately failed to act in my best interest.

Jeannie Mucklestone

Replied last November 20, 2009

1. Gary's 17mph over the limit speeding ticket was amended to a nonmoving violation that will never appear on his driving record. 2. Gary's case was never postponed or delayed. 3. It was my opinion that because the officer said that Gary admitted to going 45mph in a 35mph, which is admitted into evidence against him, his case would have been found committed as a speeding ticket, would have gone on his driving record and would raise his insurance rates. 4. My firm was successful at keeping this off his driving record.

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