Quinnan Law

05/27/2025

06/26/2024

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/sonoma-county-homicide-dna-courts/

The snafu, which officials have said was caused by human error, led to last week’s mistrial in a local homicide case that has taken more than eight years to make its way to trial.

02/20/2024

I may be injured and out of action right now, but I still want my Sonoma County peeps to know that I endorse Kristine Burk for judge. Take it from me, It’s important to have a judge on the bench who has years of experience in these courts. She is knowledgeable and fair and would make a great judicial officer. Go vote!

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. The support I've received from sitting Sonoma County Judges and Commissioners is wonderful. If elected, I will be a Judge that Sonoma County residents are proud of.

07/01/2023

Made it to the Super Lawyers list again! Grateful to the community of lawyers who recommended me!

Gabriel Quinnan is one of the top rated Criminal Defense attorneys in Santa Rosa, CA. He has met the stringent Super Lawyers selection criteria.

04/28/2023

Wow.

This is Sandra "Sandy" Hemme.

Sandy has spent the past 42 years in prison, for a crime she clearly did not commit.

Sandy was convicted for the 1980 murder of Patricia Jeschke in St. Joseph, Missouri, after police exploited her mental illness and coerced her into making false statements while she was sedated.

Why would police do this?

Well, possibly because there's evidence that Ms. Jenschke was actually killed by a police officer.

This February 2023, Sandy's attorneys filed a petition for her release, based on this evidence, which had been withheld by the Missouri state government for all these years.

At times during her interrogation, Sandy was so heavily sedated that she couldn't even hold her head up, and she made multiple contradictory statements that didn't align with the facts of the case.

Michael Holman, a St. Joseph police officer, admitted to being near Ms. Jeschke’s home at the time of the murder, and his white pickup truck was parked near the scene.

Holman had also attempted to use Ms. Jeschke’s credit card the day after her murder, and her earrings were found in his possession, along with jewelry stolen during another home burglary.

Holman claimed he was at a motel near the victim’s home during the time of the murder with a woman named "Mary".

However, when asked by police he refused to give details about "Mary" or the motel room they stayed in.

All three witnesses from the motel and attached gas station told police they did not remember seeing Officer Holman or Mary that day.

Despite this, Sandy was arrested and prosecuted for Ms. Jenschke's murder.

During trial, which lasted one day, the only "evidence" presented was that she had "confessed".

Her attorney did not present any evidence.

Prosecutors withheld the evidence that Holman was the real murderer, of course.

Thankfully, The Innocence Project has taken on Sandy's case, and are fighting to get her exonerated and set free.

Sadly, this won't be last time something like this happens, until we end the "thin blue line" culture of police lawlessness.

End qualified immunity.

End prosecutorial immunity.

Hold bad actors in government fully responsible for their actions.

03/03/2023

A South Carolina jury has found prominent attorney Alex Murdaugh guilty on all counts in the deaths of his wife and son. Jurors deliberated for about three hours before reaching a decision. Murdaugh showed little emotion as the verdicts were read.

Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty, but Murdaugh faces a sentence of 30 years to life.

Earlier in the day, Murdaugh's defense team made its final bid to prevent him from spending decades in prison, delivering their closing argument in the trial of the disbarred South Carolina attorney charged in the murders of his wife and son.

A defense attorney for Murdaugh sought to sow doubt about the work by police and forensics teams, saying they fell far short of preserving evidence from the crime scene. Murdaugh's lies and revisions to his alibi stemmed from paranoia induced by his op**te addiction, the defense insisted.

In response, the prosecution urged the jurors to pay attention to "common sense" and "facts," after hearing an abundance of testimony about Murdaugh's character. https://n.pr/41Dvz6T