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Early in his career he served as a Thurston County Rule-9 Prosecutor, the supervised practice role Washington allows law students and new lawyers. It is a small credential on paper and a large one in practice: it meant sitting inside a prosecutor's office while cases were charged, watching which files got attention and which got resolved, and seeing what the state does when its evidence is strong and what it does when it is not.
He has spent the nineteen years since on the defense side. That combination is the whole basis of how he works a case. Knowing how the state assembles a DUI — the order the evidence arrives in, which parts of the file are solid and which are assumptions nobody checked — tells you where to look first.
He represents clients across Thurston, Pierce, Mason, Kitsap, Lewis, Grays Harbor, King, Snohomish, Cowlitz and Clark Counties. Thurston is home base, where he has practiced for more than twenty years and where his courthouse relationships run deepest.
Experience
20+ years in criminal law
Nineteen of them on the defense side
Former Thurston County Rule-9 Prosecutor
Foundational prosecutorial experience
Baldwin Legal Group, PLLC
Baldwin DUI Defense is its registered trade name
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20 years | 800 cases
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State: Georgia
Acquired: 2026
No misconduct found
State: Washington
Acquired: 2007
No misconduct found
Mobile
123 Fir Street NorthEast, Olympia, WA, 98506
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11 Client Reviews
Showing 1 - 2 of 2 reviews | Speeding & Traffic Ticket
Posted by Brooks | September 18, 2017 | Hired Attorney
Most honest and hardworking lawyer I've ever known.
Chester has helped me on multiple occasions. He helped my wife and I with our bankruptcy with a colleague who specializes in them. Everything went perfectly. He also cleared up a traffic camera infraction that showed up in the mail. I wasn't even in the state on the day that they said I ran that ligh...
Posted by anonymous | May 28, 2009
Professional Caring Assistance
My son was charged with Reckless Driving in an accident that did not deserve such a charge. I tried working with both the public defender and the prosecutor and although they agreed the charge was excessive they would do little to aid in the situation. I contacted a number of attorneys and they all...
"I endorse this lawyer's work. He works hard. Chet does not take the easy way out, he fights for his clients. He takes representing his cases seriously and with high integrity."
Landlord or tenant lawyer
2005
Seattle U Trustee Law Scholarship, Seattle University Law School
1999
UW Alumni Board Scholarship, University of Washington
2011 - Present
Principal Attorney, Baldwin Legal Group
2007 - 2011
Attorney, Hanemann, Bateman & Jones
2006 - 2007
Rule 9 Prosecutor, Thurston County Prosecuting Attorney's Office
2007 - Present
Washington State Association for Justice
Not Guilty
2007
JD - Juris Doctor
2001
BS - Bachelor of Science
N/A
BA - Bachelor of Arts
2012
Legislative Analysis
2012
English
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