“I always had the same strategy throughout the trial,” defense lawyer Ken Padowitz told the Sun Sentinel on Friday. “The jury heard me say to them in opening that my client believed this was the way Ms. Marquinez died. What I didn’t tell them until closing is that he was most likely wrong.” By Jackie Salo May 26, 2017 Size didn’t matter in the end. Lawyers for the Florida man acquitted in his girlfriend’s murder [...]
“I don’t think the intent of that legislation is one that encourages bogus reports to law enforcement with zero evidence,” Padowitz said. “I think words are cheap and actions matter. If you are going to put someone in that humiliating position in front of their 5-year-old son, you need to rectify it.” BY ZACHERY EANES May 25th, 2017 DURHAM Henry Amador-Batten, a gay Durham father who was accused of inappropriately touching his son by a [...]
“I always had the same strategy throughout the trial,” Padowitz said. “The jury heard me say to them in opening that my client believed this was the way Ms. Marquinez died. What I didn’t tell them until closing is that he was most likely wrong.” By Rafael Olmeda Sun Sentinel May 28th, 2017 The unusual defense argument that Richard Patterson's genetalia may have caused his girlfriend to choke to death dominated the attorney’s opening statement [...]
"He felt absolutely mortified. He was humiliated in front of his son," Padowitz said. "This is just outrageous conduct. It's not okay, and the flying public is sick and tired of being treated like this by airlines." Padowitz added that gay parents more often have to deal with these types of accusations. "Gay men and women are consistently at the end of this type of inappropriate conclusion jumping and behavior by other people, and it can't be tolerated by [...]
“It’s just outrageous and this outrageous conduct is not going to be tolerated by passengers on this plane and it’s certainly not going to be tolerated by my client,” said Ken Padowitz, the family’s attorney out of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. By Derrick Lewis May 24, 2017, 4:58 pm MORRISVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — A flight back home Friday night from visiting family in Puerto Rico will be one that Henry Amador-Batten and his son, Ben, won’t soon forget. [...]
The family's attorney, Ken Padowitz, insists United Airlines must provide more than words for compensation. "United has 100% of the responsibility for this outrageous conduct," Padowitz told ABC11. "To be treated like a criminal, to go from zero to 100 and be calling law enforcement with armed police officers with guns to stop my client in front of other passengers, in front of other people at the terminal - and to put his son through this is outrageous conduct. [...]
"I think this was a courageous jury that did the right thing. They recognized the state's case was full of holes and they had no evidence," Patterson's attorney, Ken Padowitz told the Daily News. "They came back with the only verdict they could, which was not guilty, "Padowitz said. By Megan Cerullo May 23rd, 2017 The jury got him off. A Florida man acquitted of second-degree murder this week still faces lingering suspicions of guilt in [...]
“Based on the horrible situation that they placed him in front of their son and other people on the plane, we are going to vigorously pursue to be compensated by the airline for this horrible embarrassing treatment,” said Kenneth Padowitz, a Florida-based criminal defense attorney representing Amador-Batten. “To have your young child see you be stopped by the police and be questioned like you have done something wrong based on nothing would cause any traveler to be mortified,” [...]
Richard Patterson acquitted by jury hours after hearing closing arguments By Peter Burke - Local10.com Managing Editor , Carlos Suarez - Anchor/Reporter Posted: May 22, 2017 CLICK PICTURE to watch video on WPLG website Richard Patterson hugs his lawyer Ken Padowitz after being found Not Guilty in Murder Trial FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A South Florida man who was on trial in the 2015 choking death of his girlfriend has been found not guilty [...]
Ken Padowitz slugs it out in court with Prosecutor Peter Sapak Ken Padowitz questions Expert Witness Forensic Pathologist Dr. Wright in front of Jury Ken Padowitz ponders next legal move to aggressively defend his client