Comments by Steve Allen:
Many of the lawyers my age grew up watching Perry Mason on television. We can practice in criminal defense for many years and never have a “Perry Mason” moment. If you’re reading this, you are probably reading more for the entertainment value than to evaluate whether or not I may be the right lawyer to represent you. The point is: I have successfully represented innocent people, who initially looked terribly guilty. It is only through investigation and hard work that I have been able to prove my clients’ innocence. It is more difficult to convince a DA or judge of my clients’ innocence than to “plea bargain.” It is more difficult to represent an innocent person than a guilty one. There is far more pressure and the result depends more upon hard work and investigation of the facts. There are some cases that must go to jury trial. However, it is very expensive and stressful to the client to go to jury trial. The greater victory is to obtain the same result without having to go to trial. And, to get the District Attorney or a judge to dismiss a case before trial requires a different kind of strategy.
Practice Area: Criminal Defense
Outcome: He proved that his client acted in Self Defense
WilliamAllen was the first lawyer in Santa Clara County to use a Computer Generated Forensic Reconstruction of a shooting based upon the bullet paths from the autopsy report to successfully defend a client charged with MURDER. He proved that his client acted in Self Defense. Click to view the Forensic Animation Video Comments by Steve Allen
Practice Area: Fraud
Date: January 1, 2004
Steve Allen employed a Forensic Accountant in successfully defending a couple charged with Elder Fraud. Not only were the criminal charges dismissed before trial, but Allen successfully defended Patricia and Wendell in the Civil Court trial and won!
Steve Allen has employed the use of a Polygraph Expert in successfully convincing the District Attorney to dismiss two counts of child molest against a Spanish Speaking Client. The client was facing 2 life sentences in this case and is now living a happy and productive life. Comments by Steve Allen
Date: April 5, 2007
Kenneth Wayne Foley’s long road to vindication and justice ended in court Thursday when a wrongful burglary conviction that had cost him more than 11 years in prison was erased with the help of prosecutors and steadfast defense attorneys. In a hearing that took less than a minute, Judge Ray Cunningham vacated the 1995 conviction as…
Date: April 5, 2007
The Defendant, Kenneth Foley, was wrongfully convicted of Armed Robbery in a 3 strikes case . He served 11 years and 10 months of a life sentence. All of his appeals had been exhausted when Steve Allen wrote the District Attorney’s Office to ask that the case be re-investigated. With assistance from the Northern California…
Steve Allen has successfully defended a client charged with Gang Related Assault by proving at Preliminary Examination that the Defendant was acting in Self Defense and that the alleged victims had actually assaulted his client.
Date: December 19, 2008
Outcome: Dismissed
Steve Allen is perhaps best known for defending clients on Drug Possession and Drug Sales Cases. He recently got the District Attorney to dismiss charges against a client where police illegally detained and searched a client’s home without a search warrant. He was able to prove that the police were lying about the length of the detention and the illegal search by obtaining…
In a case in which my client was charged with having stolen a prototype instrument made by Kwiklok Corporation, I called the actual thief as a witness to a preliminary examination hearing under the pretense that I needed him to testify as a friend of my client and because he had the cleaning contract with Kwiklok and had…