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Meet your Attorney
The Mendros Law Office is dedicated
to defending citizens accused of crimes and getting the best possible
resolution to our clients' legal difficulties. Jaye Mendros has over a decade's
worth of trial and appellate experience in criminal law.
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
Ms. Mendros won her first NOT GUILTY
verdict in a Murder One case in 1996 (State v. Wauqua). 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 assisted inmates secure
release from wrongful convictions through DNA testing and defended death
penalty cases before Oklahoma juries and on appeal. In 2003 she assisted 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.
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
Attorneys [NACDLA], the Oklahoma County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
[OCCDLA], and the Oklahoma Criminal Defense Lawyers Association [OCDLA]. She is
also a past member of the American Inns of Court.
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