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Attorney concentrating in Personal Injury Cases and Serious Criminal Defense Cases
Andrew
V. Jezic
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Prior
to entering private practice in 2003, Andrew V. Jezic served
as a Maryland prosecutor for nearly eight years. During his
time as a prosecutor, Mr. Jezic prosecuted some of the most
serious felony cases in Montgomery and Anne Arundel counties.
Now as a criminal defense attorney, Mr. Jezic aggressively
represents defendants around the state facing such serious
charges as murder, rape and armed robbery. He has had approximately
75 jury trials in his career.
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Mr.
Jezic is a co-author of the widely respected book Maryland Law of Confessions, first published in 2003 by Thompson/West and now in its sixth edition. Mr. Jezic will be a featured speaker in 2010 at the Law Day seminar in Montgomery County and at the Alan Goldstein Lecture, the premier criminal law seminar in Maryland. He was asked to speak at a Cross-Examination Workshop for the Montgomery County Bar's Criminal Law Section in October,
2008, and the Office of the Public Defender Training Seminar
in May, 2008. Mr. Jezic has taught full semesters at the Law
School of American University and also at Montgomery College.
Mr. Jezic has been one of the featured presenters each
of the last three years, from 2006-2008, for "Back to
Court Night," a gathering of many of the Circuit and
District Court judges and lawyers in Montgomery County. He
was one of four featured speakers at the 2005 “District
Court Night,” a gathering of all of the judges of the
Montgomery County District Court and over 100 lawyers. In
2006 and 2004, he was a featured speaker at the annual Alan
J. Goldstein Conference on Criminal Law and Procedure in Upper
Marlboro, the premier criminal law seminar for Maryland attorneys.
In 2001, he was a featured speaker at the annual convention
for all Maryland prosecutors held in Ocean City. He has taught
numerous seminars for detectives around the state including
the criminal investigators school for the Maryland State Police.
Mr.
Jezic was nominated and elected into a small group of leading
criminal law practitioners and judges on the Maryland State
Bar's Criminal Law Section Counsel. He is the former co-Chair
of the Montgomery County Bar Association's Criminal Law Section.
Also, as Chair of the Maryland Hispanic Bar's Judicial Interviewing
Committee for most of the past eight years, he has been responsible
for interviewing all applicants in the state for any judicial
vacancy, including the Court of Appeals, Maryland's highest
court. Mr. Jezic was appointed by two Governors from different
parties in 2006 and 2007 to be one of five members to serve
on the State Board of Elections.
Mr. Jezic is a member of the Maryland State and District of Columbia Bar Associations, as well as the Bar Associations of Montgomery, Prince Georges and Anne Arundel counties. He is an active member of the Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys Association and the Maryland Hispanic Bar Association. He is fluent in both Spanish and German.
Mr.
Jezic received his J.D. from the University of Maryland Law
School, and his B.A. from Georgetown University. He is admitted
to practice law in Maryland and the District of Columbia,
as well as the United States District Courts in Maryland and
the District of Columbia. He is also admitted to the bar of
the United States Supreme Court.
You may email Mr. Jezic at avjezic@jezicfirm.com or call him in the office at
240-292-7200.
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