Lenny Frieling (detailed bio sheet) has been practicing criminal defense law in Colorado since 1976. His practice is limited to all areas of criminal defense including allegations or charges related to: sex crimes including sexual assault; other assaults; weapons violations; driving violations such as vehicular homicide, DUI and vehicular assault; domestic violence issues; drug violations; and all matters related to providing you the proper defense that today's criminal justice system doesn't always provide. He has extensive experience in record sealing. Lenny is admitted to practice in the Courts of the State of Colorado, the Federal District and Circuit Courts in the 10th Circuit, and as of October of 2006, to the United States Supreme Court. He is Of Counsel to Imhoff & Associates based in Santa Monica, California. He is also the Colorado Resident Counsel to the firm.

• Colorado NORML Board of Directors
• Chair, 2004-2005, 2005-2006 , Criminal Law Section, Colorado Bar Association. After serving for four years, including one as vice-chair, and two as chair, Lenny "retired" from this council in late 2006 to permit him more time to write, and to devote to his clients.
• Colorado Criminal Defense Bar Board of Directors (completed a two year term ending June, 2001, and elected to a new term starting June, 2003) I am a Life Member of the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar.
• Colorado Municipal Judges Association, Board of Directors (completed a two year term). Currently a presenter ongoing legal education.
• Boulder Criminal Defense Bar, Immediate Past Chair (having served as Chair from 1996 to 2004).
• Colorado Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Study, Board of Directors (retired from board after 9 years)
• Original Webmaster of Jeralyn Merritt's fantastic legal information site, Crimelynx
• Served as liason from Colorado Criminal Defense Bar Board to the Colorado Death Penalty Resource Center for two years.
• Public Education and Law Committee, Boulder County Bar Association, 1997-2002.
• Boulder County Bar Association , past member of the Board of Directors, served five years.
• Victim and Law Enforcement Board (VALE), charter member, served three years, function of the VALE Board is to distribute victim services grants.

Lenny's published articles include:

• Email E-tiquette; a multi-part series being published in the Docket, Denver Bar Association.
• "How to Stay Married" to an attorney was just published in March, 2005, in The Docket, a publication of the Denver Bar Association.
• Scientific and Other Expert Testimony, Daubert, Kumho Tire Co., and Colorado Rules of Evidence 702 and 403. (The Rap Sheet)
• E Mail Etiquette: making E mail mean "effective mail." (Colorado Lawyer)
• Courtroom Etiquette (Colorado Lawyer)
• Firearm Rights and Criminal Defense (The Rap Sheet)
• Alcohol Related Driving Offenses: Some Basics
• The Federal Aviation Administration and Your Client (co-authored with J. Scott Hamilton)
• The Dilemma of the [child abuse] Reporting Statute
• Tuberculosis in the Prison System
• Our Finite and Boundless Universe is a brief commentary on, and supplement to Stephen Hawking's Brief History of Time. My piece was used in at least several physics classes at the University of Colorado, Boulder Campus, as supplementary reading material. It may still be in use.
• I am working to complete a self help psychology book, "Gista Bista," started and inspired by my late father, Ed Frieling. A "pre-publication" self published edition was given to family members as a gift on what would have been Dad's 80th Birthday in January, 2005. (Gista Bista translates from Yiddish to "he who gives, is."
• Lenny Frieling's list of suggested great books. I read a huge amount, and have strong opinions on what I like and on what I don't like. I have tried to put together a list of guaranteed great books covering topics from funny to physics. (In the case of Richard Feynman, physics CAN be funny!

Topics have included

• Colorado Bar Association, March 2008, Criminal Law Update, (program chair and presnter).
• Kansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, March, 2008, presenter at their Spring Conference, Lawrence, Kansas
• Colorado Bar Association, February 2007, DUI Motions Practice. I assisted in designing the entire program on DUI law.
• NORML, June, 2006, Aspen, Colorado, (ethics and investigation) and December 2006, Key West, Florida, (Advanced Motions Practice) and am truly honored.
• CLE International (July 15, 2005) Advanced DUI Motions
• Various police agencies, "mountain" counties, How to Write A Search Warrant"
• Denver University School of Law, criminal law clinic. Lectures on negotiation techniques and strategy last year, and this year, criminal defense ethical considerations.
• 3rd Annual Public Defender Las Vegas Retreat to a National audience in Nevada, March 28-30, 2003. "How to Win Every Case." March, 2004, 4th Annual Public Defender Retreat, on General Criminal Legal Ethics as well as on Sentencing Techniques and Ethics.
• 2d Annual Public Defender Retreat, Las Vegas, "Effective Negotiating Techniques, or "How to Win Every Case Every Time."
• Ethical Handling of Evidence by the Criminal Defense Attorney, or "What to do with the smoking gun." (Scheduled to present this topic again in December, 2003, for Continuing Legal Education of Colorado.
• Sex Assault Post Conviction Remedies; A Creative New Approach
• Internet investigative tools for death penalty investigators, and paralegals
• How To Win Every Case (sponsored by the Boulder County Bar Association)
• Child Sex Assault Allegations in the Divorce Context (sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Committee on Child Custody)
• On Demand legal consultant for the Boulder Daily Camera on a variety of topics
• Domestic Violence Restraining Orders and No Contact Orders: The Criminal Defense Perspective (summer, 1999, Glenwood Springs 9th Judicial District)
• "Gadgets" For The Computer and Law Office for the Colorado Bar Association Solo Practice Committee.
• Internet Investigation Tools for the Defense Attorney, December 2000 in Key West, invited by the NORML Legal Committee.
• Use of Fairy Tales in the Treatment of Incest Victims, 1988, Amsterdam (presentation by invitation)

Honors and Awards

• Martindale-Hubbell AV and Preeminent Lawyers (highest possible rating) attorney rating.
• My big horn sheep photograph appeared on the cover of the June 2007 Colorado Lawyer, the monthly publication of the Colorado Bar Association. (This is the LARGE photo file. I'll post the pdf of the cover in a more manageable size once the magazine is published)
• I've also sat on lead guitar with The famous Boulder Fornikators, with Patrick and the Dinosaurs, and with a number of other bands over the years in various states. During the NORML Legal Committee conference in Aspen, June 2006, I played with Jimmy Ibitson (formerly of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) both on the patio of the Woody Creek Tavern, and the following afternoon at Owl Farm, home of the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.
• Volunteer of the Year, 1995, Boulder Action for Soviet Jewry
• Critter Crunch Table Top Battle Robots, 1st place, 1993, 3rd place 1994, "Nifty Critter" award, 1996.
• Lafayette Art Show, third place watercolor, 1995
• Nominated three times for the Olom Award, the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar's highest honor

• Lenny is admitted to practice in the Courts of the State of Colorado, the Federal District Court for the 10th Circuit, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
• NORML Legal Committee Life Member
• Colorado Criminal Defense Bar Life Member
• Boulder County Bar Association
• Colorado Bar Association
• Colorado Municipal Judges Association
• National Rifle Association Life Member

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