When you or someone you love is facing serious criminal charges, the feeling of despair can be overwhelming. Your dreams for the future come to an abrupt halt and suddenly you find yourself living your worst nightmare. This is understandable since these types of cases carry some of the heaviest legal consequences. If you find yourself in one of these unfortunate circumstances, it is paramount that you work with an experienced and aggressive criminal defense attorney.
You Need A Champion
Frank Himel is the advocate you need by your side in these critical moments.
He truly cares about your future and will fight hard to protect your rights. Himel is one of the premier criminal defense attorneys when it comes to violent crimes, weapons offenses and drug cases. He has won over 500 bench trials and 25 jury trials in Illinois state courts, for clients that were charged with serious criminal offenses.
Himel has a proven ability to achieve success when the stakes are highest – when his clients are charged with first-degree murder. He can point to fifteen different first-degree murder trials where his client came out on top.
He developed his winning strategy of “out-policing the police,” when he was a young prosecutor. And now, 20 years later, and armed with the understanding of the strategies employed by the prosecution, Himel crafts his defense to your advantage.
A Few Examples of Frank Himel’s Victories at Trial, Published by Leading Lawyers Magazine
“In Himel’s first trial after leaving the prosecutor’s office – People v. Willie Richard – he secured an acquittal for Richard who had given a handwritten confession to police and prosecutors. The jurors all agreed that after Himel’s cross-examination of the prosecutor who had written out the confession, they were left with only one verdict – find Richard not guilty.”
“Next Himel took on the case of People v. Lamont Motes. Motes was a nationally publicized case, dubbed ‘The Mob Beating Murders.’ Early in the proceedings, Himel answered ready for trial and demanded trial, a strategy that proved to be effective. Motes was acquitted on all murder charges, prompting famed Chicago defense attorney, Sam Adam, Jr., to state in a newspaper interview, ‘I believe in my heart that Frank Himel really forced this thing – the state got embarrassed with Lamont Motes … It was the highest profile case maybe in the country at the time.’”
“Most recently, Himel represented Dwayne Timberlake, who was a suspect in a series of shootings on Chicago’s South Side, and was ultimately charged in two separate murders. Himel got both cases to separate juries in a little more than year and each jury came back with a verdict of not guilty in less than an hour.”