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Jeffery Facklam
Jeffery Facklam
Jeffery Facklam is the Chief of the Felony Division of the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office, in Waukegan, where he focuses on criminal law. He is a member of the Lake County Bar Association and a board member of the Association of Women Attorneys of Lake County. Mr. Facklam received his B.S. from Indiana University Kelley School of Business and his J.D. from DePaul University College of Law.
Aaron Goldstein
Aaron Goldstein
Aaron Goldstein is the Chief of the Civil Division of the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender, in Chicago, and concentrates on criminal defense and child welfare law. He is lead counsel for the Illinois Capital Litigation Trial Bar, a member of the Federal Criminal Justice Act Panel, and one of the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers. Mr. Goldstein received his B.A. with distinction from the University of Illinois and his J.D. from the University of Iowa.
Keith Grant
Keith Grant
Keith Grant is Senior Supervising Attorney at the Lake County Public Defender’s Office, in Waukegan, where he focuses on criminal defense. He is the President of the Illinois Public Defender Association, was Past President of the Lake County Bar Association, and sits on the Board of Directors of both the Lake County Bar Foundation and the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority. Grant received his B.A. from Ripon College and his J.D. from Northern Illinois University College of Law.
Joshua B. Kutnick
Joshua B. Kutnick
Joshua B. Kutnick is senior trial counsel at Joshua B. Kutnick Attorney at Law, in Chicago, where he focuses on criminal defense. Kutnick authored the 2013 Illinois Constitutional Update “Defeating the Illinois Eavesdropping Act,” and, in 2020, he presented on the topic of Defending Sex Crimes at the Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ annual continuing legal education conference. He received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Sharmila Manak
Sharmila Manak
Sharmila Manak is the First Assistant, Chief Deputy of the Criminal Division of the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office, in Waukegan, where she focuses her practice on criminal law. She is a member of the Lake County Bar Association and the Association of Women Attorneys of Lake County. She is a licensedBarrister and Solicitor and member of the Law Society of Ontario and the Law Society of British Columbia. Ms. Manak received her undergraduate degree from Simon Fraser University and her J.D. from The John Marshall Law School.
Ashleigh M. McKeigue
Ashleigh M. McKeigue
Ashleigh M. McKeigue is an assistant public defender at the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender, in Markham. She has been with the office for approximately 15 years in various positions and frequently presents to her colleagues on issues involving search and seizure. McKeigue received her B.S. cum laude from Illinois State University and her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law, where she was a Georgetown National White Collar Crime Mock Trial Competition championship team member.
Kathleen M. Pantle
Kathleen M. Pantle
Hon. Kathleen M. Pantle is a retired Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County. She was an Acting/Alternate Chair of the Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission and a member of the Illinois Pattern Jury Instructions (Criminal) Committee for nine years, serving as Chair for two years. Pantle has served as Chair and Vice-Chair of the Chicago Bar Association Commercial Litigation Committee. She received her B.S. magna cum laude from Loyola University Chicago and her J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Carly R. Patzke
Carly R. Patzke
Carly R. Patzke is an assistant public defender at the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender, in Chicago, where she focuses her practice on criminal defense. She is a member of the West Suburban Bar Association. Ms. Patzke received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her J.D. from The John Marshall Law School.
Marcos D. Reyes
Marcos D. Reyes
Marcos D. Reyes is the Local Attorney Manager for the Wisconsin State Public Defender’s Office based in Portage, Wisconsin, where he practices in criminal defense. He is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Puerto Rican Bar Association. Reyes received his B.A. from Loyola University and his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Stephen L. Richards
Stephen L. Richards
Stephen L. Richards is an attorney at the Law Office of Stephen L. Richards, in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in criminal defense and civil rights. He received the Kutak-Dodds Award, Defender Prize, from the National Legal Aid & Defender Association in 2003. He has lectured and written extensively on criminal law and the death penalty, and he has been a member of the Illinois Supreme Court’s Screening Committee for the Capital Litigation Trial Bar and Past President of the Illinois Public Defender Association. Richards received his B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago and his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.

Jeffery Facklam

Aaron Goldstein

Keith Grant

Joshua B. Kutnick

Sharmila Manak

Ashleigh M. McKeigue

Kathleen M. Pantle

Carly R. Patzke

Marcos D. Reyes

Stephen L. Richards

Defending Criminal Cases: Pretrial Issues, Guilty Pleas, and Defenses (ARCHIVED 2021 EDITION)