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Lawyer Overview

Robert A. George is the Senior Trial Partner at Denner Pellegrino, LLP, joining the firm in 2009. Renowned as one of the region's exceptional and best-known trial lawyers, Mr. George has tried many of New England's most high profile and difficult criminal cases.

Mr. George graduated from the Boston Latin School, Northeastern University's College of Criminal Justice Summa Cum Laude and Suffolk University Law School. After internships in the Attorney General's Office, the United States Attorney's Office and the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office, he was appointed an Assistant District Attorney in Norfolk County in December 1980 on District Attorney (now United States Congressman) William Delahunt's trial staff. While a prosecutor, Mr. George co-handled the prosecution of Bradford Prendergast in Massachusetts' first murder and death penalty case in 1980. In 1981, Mr. George served as a Special Assistant Attorney General in the prosecution of Arnold Evans for the murder of Assistant District Attorney Edward T. Bigham III and served as legal counsel to the Ward Commission, a joint state and federal task force prosecuting public corruption cases. Mr. George entered private practice in August 1982 where he was involved in the so-called "Big Dan's" rape case and Pennsylvania v. George Banks, a case that involved the shooting deaths of thirteen men, women and children in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Mr. George later formed his own law firm in April 1990, and has since handled the region's most celebrated and serious criminal cases.

Mr. George is a member of the Massachusetts Bar, the United States District Court Bar for Massachusetts, the United States Court of Appeals Bar for the First Circuit, the United States Supreme Court Bar and the United States District Court Bars for the Districts of Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New York. He is also a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, and the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys. He has also been awarded Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating (AV) in criminal law, Lawyer of the Year Honors awarded by Lawyers Weekly and the Massachusetts Bar Association, and has been selected as a Super Lawyer by Boston Magazine for four consecutive years. He is active with the New England Innocence Project and has taught and lectured in colleges, law schools and continuing legal education programs throughout New England. He also has appeared often on television shows such as "American Justice," "Larry King", "Oprah Winfrey", "Phil Donahue," "Today Show," "Good Morning America", "People Are Talking", Jerry Williams," Chronicle," "Dateline," "48 Hours," "HBO," "MSNBC," "CNN", "Nancy Grace", "Catherine Crier," "Jami Floyd,"" Dan Abrams" and "Sally Jesse Raphael" and many others as well as on many other national and regional television and radio programs.

More information on Attorney George's defenses in these and other cases can be reviewed through the internet at www.rgeorgelaw.com as well as in the archives of People Magazine, National Enquirer, Newsweek Magazine, USA Today, Court TV, A & E, MSNBC, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, New York Times, Cape Cod Times and other websites and blogs. The aforementioned cases are an example of why Attorney George has a well-deserved reputation for zealously defending the interests of his clients and is committed to both the immediate and long-term needs of his diverse clientele and he seeks to provide quality representation to a wide variety of clients who span the gamut from wealthy individuals to the poor.

Attorney George has secured acquittals, reduced charges and lesser sentences for many figures in very public trials including police officers Daniel Sweeney and Robert Silva in the so-called Revere Police CVS robbery cases; Dedham officers Fred Caruso and John Landers for attempted murder; Dedham officer Peter Smart for pension fraud; Wellesley officer Ray MacDonald for police brutality; State Police Sergeant Timothy White for drug trafficking; State Police detective Joseph Catanese for obstruction of justice; Boston officer Joseph Polito for obstruction of justice; Stoughton Police Chief Manuel Cachopa for public corruption; alleged organized crime figures John Salemme and Antonio Mazza for murder; Terrence Taylor in the "Tiffany Moore" homicide case; businessman David Azar for shaken baby homicide; William Bennett in the Stuart murder case; juvenile Shon McHugh in the M.I.T. homicide case; David Taber for legal insanity murder; student Ricardo Parks for double homicide; David Corneau in the Attleboro Cult homicide case; Bernard Piscopo for murder in the "Six House" stabbing case; alleged organized crime figure Darin Bufalino for murder and armed robbery; alleged LCN members Vincent Gioacchini and James Martorano for racketeering; alleged crime boss Francis Salemme for obstruction of justice; Louis Pagliuca for federal bank fraud; NHL and USA hockey Coach Robert Richardson for rape; businessman Herb Correia for federal arson and businessman Charles Doucette for murder. He has also successfully represented defendants in the United States Funding, Dime Savings Bank, ComFed and Barnstable Community Credit Union federal investigations; grandparents Ray and Shirley Souza in their nationally covered sexual abuse case; the Donahue Family in their 6.35 million dollar wrongful death trial judgment against the federal government; Bodybuilder Craig Titus in his extradition proceedings; "Black Widow" Margaret Rudin for murder; businessman James Bunchan for federal fraud; fugitive Ted Otsuki for murder of a Boston Police officer; Broker Christopher Hightower for triple murder in Rhode Island; Bristol County serial killer Gene Travis; Dr. William Douglas in the Robin Benedict murder case; Anthony DiGrazia in the New Bedford serial killings cases; Richard Sarro in the 99 Restaurant quadruple murder case; juvenile Edward O'Brien for murder; Christopher McCowen for the murder of Christa Worthington and Siny Van Tran in the multiple homicide "Chinatown Massacre" case.

Mr. George has appeared as a guest instructor at the Flaschner Institute, Northeastern University, Boston University, New England Law School, Suffolk Law School, Northeastern University Law School, Harvard Law School and Boston College Law School. He has also lectured at Massachusetts CLE in courses including Advanced Trial Techniques, Trying the Difficult Case Against All Odds, Forensics and Insanity. He has taught classes at the Essex County Bar Advocates, Worcester County Bar Advocates, the Massachusetts State Police and judged local and national trial competitions at Suffolk University and Boston College Law Schools.

His career was the subject of the award- winning" Our Times" television program in 1991 as well as of several profiles in many major newspapers. His defenses of Christopher McCowen, Ralph Sullivan and Edward O'Brien Jr. have been covered by "Court TV" and have been the subject of extensive commentary. His cases have been the subject of books, newspaper articles, magazine pieces and television coverage for many years and his trials can be reviewed in the internet archives of the People Magazine, National Enquirer, Newsweek Magazine, USA Today, Court TV, A & E, MSNBC, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, New York Times, Cape Cod Times and other websites and blogs. Twelve books on Mr. George's cases have been written including Invisible Eden, If I Die, Deadly Alliance, Black Mass, Deadly Greed, Death of an Angel, Killing Season, Missing Beauty, Murder in Boston, And Justice For Some, Victims of Memory, Fire in the Desert and Shattered Innocence. Upcoming books on the Christopher McCowen and Edward O'Brien cases are scheduled for publication.

Attorney George's representative cases include:

Pennsylvania v. George Banks - Multiple Homicide; Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Commonwealth v. Jose Medeiros - Big Dan's Rape; Bristol County
Donahue v. United States - Wrongful Death; $6.35 Million Judgment, United States District Court
United States v. Richard Pagliuca - Bank Fraud; Acquittal, United States District Court
United States v. Humberto Correia - Arson; New Trial and Acquittal, United States District Court
Commonwealth v. Darin Bufalino - Murder; Dismissal, Suffolk County
United States v. Vincent Gioacchini - Racketeering; United States District Court
United States v. Francis Salemme - Obstruction of Justice; United States District Court
United States v. James Bunchan - Mail Fraud; United States District Court
Commonwealth v. Daniel Sweeney - Larceny; Dismissal, Suffolk County
United States v. George & Patricia Brewster - Tax Evasion; United States District Court
Commonwealth v. Fred Caruso - Attempted Murder; Acquittal, Norfolk County
Commonwealth v. Ray MacDonald - Police Brutality; Acquittal, Norfolk County
Commonwealth v. John Landers & Peter Smart - Brutality & Pension Fraud; Acquittals, Norfolk County
Commonwealth v. William Douglas - Motion for New Trial; Supreme Judicial Court
Commonwealth v. Robert Silva - Perjury; Appeal, Appeals Court
Commonwealth v. John Salemme - Murder; Reversal, Supreme Judicial Court
Commonwealth v. Ted Otsuki - Murder; Suffolk County
Commonwealth v. Charles Doucette - Murder; Reversal; New Trial, Essex County
Commonwealth v. Terrence Taylor - Murder; Acquittal, Suffolk County
Commonwealth v. David Azar - Murder; Reduced Verdict, Middlesex County
Commonwealth v. William Bennett - Murder; Armed Robbery, Suffolk County
Commonwealth v. Richard Sarro - Contempt; Suffolk County
Commonwealth v. Anthony DiGrazia - Rape, Murder; Dismissal, Bristol County
Rhode Island v. Christopher Hightower - Murder; Rhode Island
Commonwealth v. Gene Travis - Murder; Bristol County
Commonwealth v. Ricardo Parks - Murder; Acquittal, Middlesex County
Commonwealth v. David and Rebecca Corneau - Murder; Dismissal, Bristol County
Commonwealth v. Timothy White - Drug Trafficking; Acquittal and Mistrial, Norfolk County
Commonwealth v. Robert Richardson - Rape; Acquittal, Suffolk County
Commonwealth v. Christopher McCowen - Murder; Barnstable County
Commonwealth v. Craig Titus - Extradition; Norfolk County
Commonwealth v. Margaret Rudin - Extradition, Middlesex County
Commonwealth v. Siny Van Tram - Murder; Suffolk County
Commonwealth v. Edward O'Brien - Murder; Middlesex County
Commonwealth v. Shon McHugh - Murder; Retained as juvenile, Middlesex County
Commonwealth v. Ray and Shirley Souza - Rape; Middlesex County
Commonwealth v. David Taber - Murder; Acquittal by Reason of Insanity, Bristol County
Commonwealth v. Manuel Cachopa - Public Corruption; Acquittal, Norfolk County
Commonwealth v. Bernard Piscopo - Murder; Acquittal, Lesser Charge, Suffolk County

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