Joseph P. Kennedy

Picture 022.jpgMr. Kennedy has practiced in the area of
Civil Rights and Criminal Defense since his
admission to the New Mexico Bar in 1990.
Mr. Kennedy is a member of the New Mexico
Trial Lawyers Association.



Academic and Associations Background

  • 1985 graduate/Temple Law School
  • 1985 admitted to Pennsylvania Bar
  • 1990 admitted to New Mexico Bar

Shannon L. Oliver

Picture 071.jpgMs. Oliver has practiced in the area of
Civil Rights and Criminal Defense since her
admission to the New Mexico Bar in 1994.
Ms. Oliver is a member of the American Trial
Lawyers Association, the New Mexico Trial
Lawyers Association and the New Mexico
Criminal Defense Lawyers Association.

Academic and Associations Background

  • 1994 graduate/University of New
  • Mexico School of Law
  • 1994 Masters Latin American Studies
  • 1994 Admitted to New Mexico Bar
  • Spanish speaker

About Us

We are primarily committed to representation of individuals whom the government is prosecuting or whom the government has injured. Our criminal cases are diverse. Our clients often seek us out when there is an issue related to whether the police violated the Fourth Amendment in prosecuting them. Our civil cases are wrongful arrests (arrests without probable cause to believe the defendant committed a crime); malicious prosecution or prosecuting citizens for malicious purposes, government or corporate action that causes physical injury, entry upon lands and property with a warrant, and taking of property without due process and without just compensation.

As an example of our cases, we have represented the following people:

  • a family whose child was molested by a school teacher;
  • the family of a young man who died in police custody;
  • a sixteen year old girl attacked by a police dog;
  • a mother police accused of child abuse because she asked an out -of-uniform police officer for identification and challenged the officer’s right to detain her;
  • a family in Los Lunas subjected to an illegal entry of their home at 4:00a.m.
  • a young man whose cash the state police took because the police suspected him of being a drug dealer;
  • a man whose tow truck the Albuquerque Police took from him and have kept for two years;
  • a man falsely accused of child molestation