Michael Ross Kawamura

Attorney Kawamura supervises the Pierce County Office of Assigned Council. His office and attorneys might as well be attached to the Prosecutors office as he and his employee Attorney Joel Harte always pressure people to plead guilty. My nephew ran out of money for an attorney and attorney Joel Harte... promised that there would be two other attorneys and an investigator on the case, and that as a lie. Kawamura's office refuses to interview the person that actually committed the crime my nephew is charged with or put him on the witness list. Kawamura refuses to subpoena pay records that would prove my nephew innocent, and refuses to enter them into discovery. Kawamura's office refuses to put people on the witness list that would prove the people who filed a false police report were lying and that there residence was actually a "drug house." Kawamua and his employee attorney Harte are the bottom-of-the-barrel attorneys and should be avoided at all costs.

Mr Kawamura gets paid to win or lose. It does not matter to him. When he represented me he told me to take the plea as he did not study my case and if I went to court we had a 95% chance to lose and I would do 12 years. So I was pretty much conned into pleaing out. His loss rate is very high. When I ...was assaulted and told him, Mike told me not to say anything so he let a crime be ignored and did nothing about it. I asked him to help me withdrawing my plea. He ignored that.

I am a prior client of Mr Kawamura during 1992 through 2001. I am not satisfied with his work as it lacks strength, dignity and pride. I have tried to work with him to get satisfaction with him but due to his heavy case load it was very hard to communicate with him. I had sent letters and made calls... and it was rare to receive a reply within a timely manner. In my opinion, his strategy is poor and lacks authority in defense. I reviewed this with Attorney Gunther and she stated I was not guilty to what I plead to. At one point, It was so bad that I asked the court to remove him due to a conflict of interest and that was a success.