Jose M. Quinon, P.A. Employee Directory

Law PracticeUnited States2-10 Employees

Jose M. Quinon is a nationally recognized criminal defense attorney, who excels in the representation of individuals and corporations at trial and on appeal in federal and state courts.  He is a passionate and determined lawyer who brings more than 34 years of experience to the important task of representing his clients.

	As one of the leading attorneys in his field, Mr. Quinon has enjoyed enormous success throughout his career.  He has successfully represented clients in some of the most publicized trials in South Florida.  After leaving the State Attorney’s Office in 1983, as a Major Crimes Prosecutor under Janet Reno, Mr. Quinon’s first case as a defense lawyer resulted in a not guilty verdict for police officer Ernesto Urtiaga.  This case involved a charge of manslaughter against an on-duty police officer, and was one of the cases that became popularly known as the Miami Riot cases.  Mr. Urtiaga’s acquittal was the first of many highly publicized cases to follow.

	Mr. Quinon also successfully represented police officer Armando Estrada, the lead defendant in the famous Miami River Cops case.  He likewise successfully represented Raul Martinez, who was the Mayor of Hialeah, the fifth most populous city in Florida.  Mayor Martinez’s defense was a veritable marathon that took a successful appeal and three jury trials before federal prosecutors decided to give up, and the Mayor ended up the winner.  Mr. Quinon also won the acquittal of the Chief of Staff of a Miami-Dade County Commissioner in the highly publicized Miami Port case, as well as a not guilty verdict in an internationally publicized federal case of an individual charged in a conspiracy to assassinate a head of state, the acquittal of a doctor charged with Medicare fraud while working at a clinic, and many other not guilty verdicts in varied cases.  Mr. Quinon has demonstrated exceptional ability to win acquittals in trials, and to successfully resolve cases during the investigative setting.

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