Top best Criminal Defense Lawyers in ZIP 59937 | 2 available

With over a decade of experience as a public defender prior to starting his own practice, Ryan Peabody has the knowledge and skill to represent you no matter the charges and allegations the government levels at you. Mr. Peabody has tried jury trials ranging from Murder, sex crimes, Robbery, Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Extortion, to DUI (felonies and misdemeanors; drugs and/or alcohol), domestic violence, drug offenses and many others.Mr. Peabody has had great success defending DUI cases, having earned numerous Not Guilty verdicts for his clients. He has also obtained at least two hung juries in DUI cases in which the prosecution dismissed all charges after trial. He has earned Not Guilty verdicts or dismissals after a hung jury for cases involving only alcohol, cases involving only drugs, and a combination of alcohol and drugs. Mr. Peabody has also obtained many dismissals in DUI cases through motions to suppress evidence. These ranged from the police taking the blood of his client without a warrant and without an exception to the requirement that they obtain a warrant, to cases where they did not have the necessary reasonable suspicion to effectuate a traffic stop. He has even had multiple motions to suppress that were denied by the trial judge reversed by the appellate division of the Santa Barbara County Superior Court resulting in all charges being dismissed. He also defeated prosecution appeals of motions to suppress that were granted in favor of his client, also resulting in all charges being dismissed.In City of Kalispell v. Salsgiver, 2019 MT 126, Mr. Peabody brought about systemic change in the state of Montana when he went to the Montana Supreme Court to successfully challenge the unconstitutional practice, that was pervasive throughout the state, of stripping misdemeanor defendants of their Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury if they missed a court date. He did this after having lost in the trial court and then with the intermediate appellate court. The appellate division of the Montana Public Defender’s Office refused to argue the practice was unconstitutional believing it would be unsuccessful, so Mr. Peabody handled the appeal to the Supreme Court himself and prevailed with a 5 to 2 majority. In that same opinion, the Montana Supreme Court also reversed one of its prior decisions to the advantage of his client.Mr. Peabody taught law students Criminal Procedure as an Adjunct Professor at the Southern California Institute of Law from 2014 to 2015. The class focused on the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. He has attended the National Criminal Defense College’s Trial Practice Institute in Macon, Georgia. He has previously worked as a public defender in the South Lake Tahoe branch of the El Dorado County Public Defender’s Office as well as Santa Barbara County, Lassen County, and the state of Montana.  He is an active member of the Montana state bar.  He is licensed to practice law in all California state courts as well as the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California and is an inactive member of the Colorado state bar. He is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Oregon School of Law.

Ethical. Effective. Efficient.. Lindsey was born and raised in Great Falls, Montana. She graduated with honors from the University of Montana with a B.A. in Sociology with an emphasis in Criminology. In 2011, She received her J.D. from the University of Montana School of Law.  She traveled with an international educational program where as a  volunteer, she developed a deep sense of compassion for each of the fifty communities she visited.  She knows what it means to work hard and understands the necessity of our legal system and its importance to our society.. Lindsey’s passion for helping others, and love of the constitution, led to her career as a criminal defense attorney. During her second year of law school she interned for Montana Legal Services and did her clinic at the Office of the State Public Defender. During that time, she fell in love with the purpose, the mission, and the types of people these areas of law attracted. After law school, Lindsey accepted a full-time public defender position where she defended misdemeanor and felony cases.  Lindsey has been practicing in the Flathead Valley since 2012 and has successfully handled well over five hundred legal matters. She has over five years of continual courtroom experience and has developed effective working relationships with local attorneys, judges, and law enforcement agencies. Lindsey is an ethical, meticulous, hard working attorney. She cares about each client and understands each legal matter is unique and needs its own specialized course of attention.