Candidate for
Judge of the Superior Court; County of Riverside; Office 2

Admitted to the Bar, State of California, 1981; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; U.S. District Court, Central District of California

Education: Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania (B.A., 1970) Southwestern University school of Law, Los Angeles, California (J.D., Scale, 1981)

Associations: California Public Defenders Association [CPDA]; California DUI Lawyers Association [Board of Trustees]; California Attorneys for Criminal Justice [CACJ]

The mission of my firm is to provide my clients with the highest level of personal and professional service to protect their liberties from overweening government, and thereby to preserve the values undergirding the founding of the Republic. We strive to give real, non-reactionary meaning to the concept of a government of laws. It is to be recalled that the primary law to be enforced in this Republic is the Constitution, and our personal and professional calling is to enforce it against those in government who have an interest in its obliteration. We have sworn to uphold the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and it does not overstate the case to suggest that there are far more domestic enemies of our fundamental charter and liberties than foreign ones.

There is a common misconception among critics of this craft that defense attorneys "represent" or "defend" "criminals." We defend the Constitution against its attempted dismantlement by those who would concentrate in themselves expanding power at the expense of your and our liberty. We assist and counsel those accused of crimes, and we force the government to negotiate the complex path that the Constitution and laws require before a lawful guilty verdict could properly be returned, and no attorneys are more effective nor more forceful in requiring the government to leap through all of the hoops that the Framers have erected than are Kennedy & Roe. We are like John Adams, the founder of American conservatism, when he aggressively represented the Red Coats who were accused of firing on the colonists at Bunker Hill; he was not "defending criminals." He was defending the Constitution and thus assuring that the rest of us would enjoy a robust rule of law. You will see how valuable to your liberty is our doggedness when you read our links to police perjury and governmental "witch hunts." We stand at the gate so that none of us gets pushed to the brink of the abyss.