DEFENDING CLIENTS FOR OVER 25 YEARS
SERVING SANTA CLARA, SAN MATEO, SANTA CRUZ AND MONTEREY
Stephen J. Prekoski
———— CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY
Stephen (Steve) has been a member of the California State Bar Association (#191128) since 1997 and was a dedicated municipal Deputy Public Defender for 20 years, serving in Tulare, Monterey and Santa Cruz counties. As a result, Steve has done more jury trials than most lawyers on the Central Coast (80+ and counting).
Steve is a capital-qualified litigator, meaning he meets the state’s requirements to defend death penalty cases. Steve’s experience includes jury trials in homicides, child molests, rapes, carjacks, possession of child pornography, and all variety of violence cases. Steve has also litigated multiple jury trials for DUIs, theft (both grand and petit), embezzlement, check fraud, carjacking, auto theft, receiving stolen property, trespassing, drunk in public, vandalism, drug possession and/or sales, and criminal threat charges.
25+
YEARS
EXPERIENCE
10,000+
CASES
HANDLED
80+
JURY
TRIALS
0
REVERSALS ON
APPEAL
My Promise to You
——— WE GET IT RIGHT THE 1ST TIME
I will represent you like you were my brother, my son, my sister or my daughter. I take my ethical obligation — to act exclusively in the best interests of my client (as a fiduciary) — very, very seriously. I will return your calls. I will respond to your emails. I will answer your questions honestly and based on my experience, and if I don’t know an answer, I will promptly do the necessary research in order to do so. And we will achieve the outcomes that you envision. We will get it right the first time.
