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About Paul Stanko

Indiana DUI DWI OWI OUI drunk driving lawyer and criminal defense attorney Paul Stanko tried and won his first OWI (Operating While Intoxicated) case as a 23 year-old prosecutor in January 1979. That same year he successfully tried 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 drunk driving defense attorney and criminal defense lawyer. His familiarity with Indiana's criminal justice system, 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.

There is absolutely no substitute for experience. More than three decades (over thirty years) of experience in Indiana's criminal courts have made Paul Stanko one of the most knowledgeable and experienced criminal defense and drunk driving defense attorneys in all of Indiana. As a prosecutor, judge, and defense attorney on drunk driving cases, Paul Stanko has seen the law from every perspective. Having been a prosecutor, he knows what the prosecutor must prove. Having been a judge, he knows how a judge looks at evidence and reaches his rulings. Few other Indiana lawyers have that combination of real world experience.

Primary counties served by Paul Stanko are St. Joseph County (South Bend, Mishawaka, Granger, Lakeville, New Carlisle, North Liberty, Notre Dame, Osceola, Walkerton, Wyatt), Marshall County (Plymouth, Argos, Bourbon, Bremen, Culver, Donaldson, Lapaz, Tippecanoe, Tyner), 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), Elkhart County (Elkhart, Goshen), Porter County (Valparaiso, Portage, Chesterton, Beverly Shores, Boone Grove, Hebron, Kouts, Ogden Dunes, Porter, Wheeler), La Porte County LaPorte County (La Porte, LaPorte, Michigan City, Westville), Jasper County (Rensselaer, Demotte, Fair Oaks, Remington, Tefft, Wheatfield), Tippecanoe County (Lafayette, West Lafayette), 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), Delaware County (Muncie, Yorktown), and Pulaski County (Winamac).

Serious felony and DUI cases in other counties throughout Indiana are also accepted.

Paul Stanko is also an experienced appellate attorney, handling dozens of appeals in the Indiana Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.

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