Jonathan Dingus | Panama City Criminal Lawyer

• Florida State Bar
• American Bar Association
• Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
• Bay County Bar Association

• I have been board certified by The Florida Bar as a specialist in Criminal Trial law since .
  1999

In the past several years, I have gone to trial on several cases that I think merit attention: 1. a dissolution of marriage action where I was able to convince the judge to award equal time sharing of the parties two children, where there was not any timesharing before hand. 2. a sexual battery case involving a federal agent as the defendant where he was found not guilty following a jury trial; 3. a dismissal of burglary charges on a client on the eve of a jury trial; 4. several below the guidelines sentences for federal criminal defendants; 5. a modification of sentence from 120 days jail to time served after serving two weeks of the sentence. I convinced the judge to do so based on the clients mental health issues

a. honesty and fair dealings with everyone; this includes setting reasonable expectations with the client andor his or her family and friends; b. Hard work; this includes doing everything within the limits of the law to be more prepared than your competition; c. being nice and realizing that how you present yourself is always important.

Clients should look for someone who gives common sense advice at a fair price. If the advice heard by you doesn't make sense, you (the client) are probably better off with someone else.

The greatest thing about being a trial lawyer is the knowledge that you have helped someone by doing my job.

I will do free phone consultations in criminal cases. The information that I need is someones name and contact information (phone numbers and addresses) as well as where the charges are, what they are, and the clients side of the story.

I think that the thing that differentiates me from the rest of the legal community is that I am board certified by the Florida bar as a specialist in criminal trial law, and I have been since 1999. In addition, I am certified by the Florida Supreme Court as a family law mediator.