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Criminal Defense in Oklahoma City and Surrounding Areas - Jaye Mendros
Seriously Outstanding
only 5% selected each year
Finding the right lawyer is crucial to mounting an effective defense. Jaye Mendros has almost fifteen years worth of trial and appellate experience in criminal law. She knows criminal cases must be handled carefully, as the competing interests of those involved can cause emotions to run high. She has a delicate touch in negotiating with the District Attorney's office on your behalf, yet is a tenacious fighter in the courtroom if negotiations fail. A firm believer that freedom is the bedrock upon which our country was built, she will fight overreaching by the State relentlessly. She is ON YOUR SIDE.
Training and Education
Jaye Mendros graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1994, top 10% of her class (Order of the Coif and Order of the Barristers). Always a defender of the Constitution, she won the Michael Salem Civil Rights Award and the William H. Grimes Civil Libertarian Award. Her writing skills earned her publication on Oklahoma's Law Review, on which she served as Note Editor. She also received the American Jurisprudence Award for Criminal Procedure II and Conflicts of Laws.
Experience & Successes
SELECTED FOR INCLUSION ON THE 2008 OKLAHOMA SUPER LAWYERS LIST (only 5% of attorneys are selected each year).
VOTED TOP 5% OF OKLAHOMA ATTORNEYS IN OKLAHOMA (OKLAHOMA MAGAZINE'S SUPERLAWYER SECTION) FOR 2007! VOTED ONE OF THE TOP 25 WOMEN LAWYERS IN OKLAHOMA IN THE 2006 SUPERLAWYER'S MAGAZINE!
VIP MEMBER OF MADISON'S WHO'S WHO OF EXECUTIVES!
Ms. Mendros won her first NOT GUILTY verdict in a Murder One case in 1996 (State v. Wauqua). Her latest trial victory came in June of 2008, where she again fought for and received a NOT GUILTY verdict for a young man charged with First Degree Murder (State v. Lunceford).
In 2001, she was part of a defense team which won a life-after-death verdict in Sallisaw, Oklahoma (State v. Childress).
Ms. Mendros has worked in the Oklahoma County Public Defender's Office (general felony division), the Court of Criminal Appeals (judicial assistant to Charles S. Chapel), and the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System's DNA and Capital Trial Divisions, where she helped inmates secure release from wrongful convictions through DNA testing and defended death penalty cases before Oklahoma juries and on appeal.
In 2003 she participated in the defense of an Oklahoma lawyer who had been subpoenaed to give testimony in violation of the attorney-client privilege against a client who was facing first degree murder charges. The Court ruled in favor of the defense, and the privilege was protected.
A firm believer in the power of recovery, Ms. Mendros also helps clients seek and receive treatment and fights for probationary sentences in drug and alcohol-related cases.
In 2004 she helped a client charged in four separate felony drug cases that carried up to life in prison receive straight deferred sentences, escaping even a felony conviction on his record.
In 2006 she took on the Oklahoma law which banned tattooing in our State, challenging the unconstitutionality of the statute on First and Fourteenth Amendment grounds. Due in large part to her efforts in the Court system, as of May 10, 2006, a new law was passed legalizing and regulating the art of tattooing in Oklahoma (eff. Nov 1). Three clients facing jail time in Oklahoma County under the old law are now free to practice their chosen form of artistic expression, and Oklahoma is no longer the last State in the Union to criminalize tattooing. In 2007 she again took on the State, fighting draconian regulations imposed by the State Health Department against tattoo artists which unfairly limited their ability to operate their now-legal businesses (The Tattoo Battle, Round II). Again she WON, and her clients' shops remain open for business.
Memberships
Ms. Mendros is a staunch opponent of the Death Penalty and is an active member of the ACLU and Amnesty International. She is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers [NACDL], the Oklahoma County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association [OCCDLA], the Oklahoma Criminal Defense Lawyers Association [OCDLA], the Oklahoma Bar Association (OBA), the American Bar Association (ABA), and the Southern Poverty Law Center [SPLC]. She is also a past member of the American Inns of Court.
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