South Bend Mishawaka Elkhart Goshen lawyer and Crown Point Merrillville Hammond Hobart attorney Paul Stanko is an Indiana DUI (Driving Under the Influence), Indiana DWI (Driving While Intoxicated), Indiana OWI (Operating While Intoxicated), Indiana OUI (Operating Under the Influence), Indiana BWI (Boating While Intoxicated), Indiana BUI (Boating Under the Influence), Indiana drunk boating and Indiana drunk driving defense lawyer and Indiana criminal defense attorney serving South Bend, Mishawaka, Notre Dame, Elkhart, Goshen, Nappanee, La Porte, Michigan City, Westville, Warsaw, Plymouth, Culver, Rochester, Peru, Kokomo, Lagrange, St. Joseph County, Elkhart County, La Porte County, Kosciusko County, Marshall County, Fulton County, Miami County, Howard County, Lagrange County, and all of Northern Indiana from offices in South Bend; and serving Crown Point, Merrillville, Hammond, Hobart, Portage, Valparaiso, Chesterton, Rensselaer, Kentland, Monticello, Fowler, Lafayette, West Lafayette, Lake County, Porter County, Jasper County, Newton County, White County, Benton County, Tippecanoe County, and all of Northwest Indiana from offices in Crown Point.
Paul Stanko has a truly state-wide drunk driving defense practice and has defended hundreds of drunk driving cases in most of Indiana's 92 counties, including Northern, Northwest, Northeast, Central, West Central, East Central, and Southern Indiana. He accepts a limited number of cases in Southern Indiana, including the Evansville area (Vanderburgh, Posey, Warrick and Gibson Counties, Evansville, Mt. Vernon, Boonville and Princeton) and Cincinnati suburbs (Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Lawrenceburg and Rising Sun). He also accepts a limited number of cases in West Central Indiana (Vigo County, Terre Haute area, Knox County, Vincennes) and East Central Indiana (Wayne County, Richmond area). In reality, after over 30 years of handling Indiana drunk driving cases, Paul Stanko is willing to consider accepting ANY drunk driving case ANYWHERE in Indiana, no matter how far, how serious, or how complicated, on a case by case basis. Since he devotes his personal attention to every case and NEVER uses Associates or Paralegals to deal with clients, he will not accept more cases than he can handle PERSONALLY.
Indiana DUI DWI OWI OUI BWI BUI drunk boating and drunk driving attorney and criminal defense lawyer Paul Stanko tried and won his first OWI (Operating While Intoxicated) cases as a 23 year-old prosecutor in January 1979. Having completed both college and law school in only 5 and a half years, he was probably both the youngest attorney and youngest prosecutor in Indiana at the time. That same year he successfully tried and won his first serious felony cases. He has practiced criminal law ever since, as a prosecutor, a Superior Court Judge, and now a DUI DWI OWI OUI BWI drunk driving defense lawyer and criminal defense attorney. His over 30 years of courtroom experience in criminal law and familiarity with Indiana's criminal justice system, constitutional rights, law enforcement tactics, forensic evidence and crime scene investigation, search and seizure, ballistics and firearms, field sobriety tests and BMV procedures is at your disposal and only a Toll-Free call away. He has extensive experience in drunk driving and drunk boating cases as a prosecutor, defense attorney, and judge, giving him a unique perspective and understanding of all aspects of the investigation, prosecution, and defense of impaired driving and impaired boating cases.
In terms of firearms knowledge, Paul Stanko has been shooting handguns and rifles since the age of 10 and has extensive practical knowledge of such subjects as terminal ballistics, wound ballistics, and forensic pathology, essential to the defense of homicide and other violent crimes.
As a committed civil libertarian, Paul Stanko is pleased to defend persons charged with drug crimes in the ill-conceived and counter-productive "War on Drugs". Drug cases are taken on a case-by-case and time available basis. Paul Stanko is a proud member of NORML.
Every day, the career politicians, government bureaucrats, over zealous law enforcement, and special interests like MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) and the insurance lobby work to erode your rights, invade your privacy, and intrude on your freedoms. You need an experienced, skilled advocate to defend your rights, protect your privacy, and insure your freedom, because nobody else will.
Indiana counties served by Paul Stanko include St. Joseph County (South Bend, Mishawaka, Granger, Lakeville, New Carlisle, North Liberty, Notre Dame, Osceola, Walkerton, Wyatt), Elkhart County (Bristol, Elkhart, Goshen, Middlebury, Millersburg, Nappanee, New Paris, Wakarusa), La Porte County LaPorte County (La Porte, LaPorte, Michigan City, Westville), Hamilton County (Noblesville, Carmel, Fishers, Arcadia, Atlanta, Cicero, Sheridan, Westfield), Marshall County (Plymouth, Argos, Bourbon, Bremen, Culver, Donaldson, Lapaz, Tippecanoe, Tyner), Lagrange County (Lagrange), Lake County (Crown Point, East Chicago, Gary, Hammond, Hobart, Lake Station, Whiting, Merrillville, Schererville, Lowell, Cedar Lake, Dyer, Griffith, Leroy, Munster, St John, Schneider, Shelby), Porter County (Valparaiso, Portage, Chesterton, Beverly Shores, Boone Grove, Hebron, Kouts, Ogden Dunes, Porter, Wheeler), Jasper County (Rensselaer, Demotte, Fair Oaks, Remington, Tefft, Wheatfield), Newton County (Kentland), White County (Monticello), Fulton County (Rochester), Starke County (Knox, North Judson), Howard County (Kokomo), Miami County (Peru), Cass County (Logansport), Carroll County (Delphi), Clinton County (Frankfort), Grant County (Marion), Wabash County (Wabash), Kosciusko County (Warsaw), Ripley County (Versailles), Decatur County (Greensburg), Dearborn County (Lawrenceburg, Aurora), Ohio County (Rising Sun), Pulaski County (Winamac), Vanderburgh County (Evansville), Warrick County (Boonville), Posey County (Mt. Vernon), Gibson County (Princeton), Vigo County (Terre Haute), and Wayne County (Richmond).
Paul Stanko is also an experienced appellate attorney, handling dozens of appeals in the Indiana Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
Serious felony (Murder, Homicide, Drug Dealing and Possession, etc.) and DUI cases in other counties throughout Northern Indiana, Northwest Indiana, Central Indiana, and the rest of the State of Indiana are also accepted on a case by case basis. Call toll-free for a FREE CONSULTATION.
