N. Trey Pettlon III

Trey Pettlon has taken numerous criminal, personal injury and wrongful death cases to trial to a jury and won outstanding verdicts for his clients.  He practices in Kansas, Missouri and federal courts.  Trey fights for his clients, and has a reputation as a zealous advocate among his peers.  Trey’s clients are most often referred by past clients or other attorneys and people who work in the courts who are in a position to know.

Trey has represented a great number of high profile clients and has been trial counsel in other high profile cases.  Recently he won a dismissal in a high profile “voter fraud” case and won a hearing on a Government motion to waive his 16 year old client to adult status for the charge of first degree murder of his father, which would have subjected to a mandatory life sentence if he had been convicted.  Both cases garnered had national attention.  Trey has also previously represented a number of important clients, people who are very familiar with the criminal justice system and chose Trey to help them with their own cases, including the Kansas Attorney General who was facing a criminal investigation, other law enforcement officers including the Sheriff of Franklin County, Kansas, who facing felony charges, and many other attorneys, criminal defense attorneys, and bondsmen charged with crimes.  Trey’s clients have also included professional athletes, doctors, nurses, teachers and people from “every walk of life.”

In wrongful death cases, Trey has won huge jury verdicts including one of the largest verdicts of the year in Jackson County, Missouri and the largest verdict of the year in Clay County, Missouri.

State of Kansas, February 1992

State of Missouri, August 1991

United States District Court, District of Kansas, 2004

United States District Court, Western District of Missouri, 2006

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, 2015

United States Supreme Court, 2015

Bachelor of Arts, University of Missouri – 1988

Juris Doctorate, Washburn University – 1991

Johnson County District Attorneys Office – 1991 to 1994

Private Practice – 1994 to present

Municipal Prosecutor, Edgerton, Kansas – 2009 to 2011

Municipal Judge, Edgerton, Kansas – 2011 to 2014

Selected as a “Super Lawyer” – 2006, 2009 to 2017

President’s Award – Johnson County Bar Association – 2007

Clay County Bar Association

Johnson County Bar Association

Johnson County Bar Foundation – Foundation Fellow

Kansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers – lifetime member

Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association – Sustaining Member

Midwest Innocence Project, Board of Directors – 2012 to 2014

State of Kansas v. Richard Grissom, 251 Kan. 851 (1992)

United States v. Sorrentino, 783 F.3d 727 (2015)

“Witness Preparation and Examination for DUI Proceedings,” (“Thorough strategies for interviewing your client and the prosecution’s witnesses”), Aspatore Publishing, 2009