Attorney Russell S. Palmer

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Russell S. Palmer, Esq.

Attorney Russell S. Palmer has been working with Attorney Ron Stevens on all types of criminal matters since 2016 concentrating on Operating Under the Influence cases.

He maintains an Office in Middletown adjacent to the Middlesex County Court House and has represented thousands of individuals accused of operating under the influence of intoxicating liquor and has been listed in The Best lawyers in America since 2007 for DUI/DWI Defense. He was a member of the Board of Pardons and Paroles from 2006 to 2015, sitting on Pardon Panel decisions.

Education

Xavier High School, Class of 1979, Middletown, Connecticut
Wake Forest University School of Law Juris Doctor. May, 1986, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Villanova University, Bachelor of Arts Philosophy/Mathematics May, 1983, Villanova, Pennsylvania


Bar Admissions

Court of the State of Connecticut, 1986
United States District Court, District of Connecticut, 1988
Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Court, 1992
Mohegan Tribe Gaming Disputes Court, 2001


Honors and Awards

BV Rating: Martindale Hubbell Selected to Best Lawyers in America, 2007 – present
(listed for DUI/DWI Defense)


Seminar Presentations

“D. W. I. Cases: Representing Your Client in D.M.V. & State Proceedings” Connecticut Bar Association, 1991
“Suspension of Motor Vehicle Operator’s Licenses” Hartford County Bar Association, May 30, 2001
“Administrative Issues at the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles” Connecticut Bar Association, June 9, 2008
“‘Other’ Administrative Hearings at the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles” Fairfield County Bar Association, December 2, 2010 “The Pardon Process in Connecticut” Fairfield County Bar Association, December 10, 2014


Department of Motor Vehicles

Since 1990 Attorney Palmer has represented approximately fifteen hundred (1500) respondents in Per Se hearings before the Department of Motor Vehicles, and argued ten administrative appeals in the Superior Court.
He has also handled the following types of administrative hearings before the Department of Motor Vehicles:

a. medical fitness to operate either a motor vehicle or a commercial motor vehicle;
b. qualifications to hold a public service license;
c. reduction of license suspension based on an out-of-state operating under the influence conviction; and
d. reduction of lifetime suspension for operating under the influence.


Co-counsel in an administrative hearing before the Department of Environmental Protection involving the appeal of a safe boating certificate suspension arising out of a fatal boating accident.



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