One month after a judge ordered a new trial and cast doubt on the evidence against him for murder, Andre Gonzalez is a free man. Prosecutors on Tuesday dropped the case against Gonzalez, who spent 12 years behind bars for a murder outside a North Miami-Dade nightclub, a killing his defense lawyers said he did not commit. Gonzalez, who was also known in court records by the alias Tony Brown, […]
On April 26, 2014, the Miami Chapter of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys honored Phil with their “Rodney Thaxton Against All Odds Award“. In 2011 Phil undertook the defense of Dennis Escobar in a re-trial of a murder case. Dennis Escobar had been sentenced to death in 1992, but the Florida Supreme Court reversed his conviction. The re-trial began in early 2013 and lasted over two months. The […]