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Frank D. Eaman, Attorney

Frank D. Eaman, PLLC

Suite 3060, 645 Griswold St., Detroit, MI 48226

313-***-**** Fax: 313-***-****

abqhtb@r.postjobfree.com

www.eamanlaw.com

BAR ADMISSIONS: All Michigan Courts and Eastern District of Michigan (1971), Sixth

Circuit (1978), United States Supreme Court (1984), Second Circuit (1989), Western District of

Michigan (1999).

EDUCATION: University of Michigan Law School, J. D. 1971; University of Chicago, A.B.,

1967 (International Relations).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Trials and appeals, state and federal courts, with emphasis

on criminal cases.

2007-Present: Frank D. Eaman, P.L.L.C., Detroit, Mt. Clemens, and Lake Orion, Michigan.

1988 to 2006: Bellanca, Beattie & DeLisle, P.C., Harper Woods and Detroit, Michigan.

1975 to 1988: Eaman & Ravitz, P.C., Detroit, Michigan.

1971 to 1975: Gage, Burgess, Knox, Burgess & Eaman, Detroit, Michigan.

APPOINTMENTS: By Governor James J. Blanchard to the State Appellate Defender

Commission on recommendation of the Michigan Supreme Court (1988); reappointed by

Governor John M. Engler on recommendation of the Court (1992).

AWARDS & RECOGNITION: Rated AV - Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell; Michigan

Super Lawyer since 2008; Distinguished Brief Award, Thomas M. Cooley Law School (2011

and 1994); Right to Counsel Award, Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan (CDAM),

(2004); Legacy Award, Legal Aid and Defender s Association of Detroit (LADA) (1999);

CDAM Appreciation Award (1991); Arthur vonBriesen Award, National Legal Aid and

Defenders Association (1983); Distinguished Service Award of the Detroit Bar Association

(1983); Friend of the Year Award from the Board of Trustees of Friends of Legal Aid of LADA

(1983).

PUBLISHED ARTICLES: Public Defense in Michigan From the Top to the Bottom,

Michigan Bar Journal, Vol. 87 No. 11 (November 2008); Michigan 48th in the Country in

Assigned Counsel Fees, The Champion, December 2001; Lawyers Set to Take Action Against

Low Fees, Michigan Lawyers Weekly, October 29, 2001, reprinted, Criminal Defense

Newsletter (CDL), November 2001; Relief for Lifers: 6.500 Motion Advocacy May Yield

Results, CDL, June-July, 2000; People of the State of Michigan v Harriet Davis, 11 Cooley

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Law Review, No. 3, 1994; Psychologically Coerced Confessions, People v DeLisle, CDL,

Nov. 1992; Media Access to Prosecution Exhibits, People v DeLisle, CDL, Vol. 16, No. 3,

Dec., 1992; A Model System for Indigent Defense Services, Michigan Bar Journal, February,

1992, Vol. 71, No. 2; Gideon v Wainwright--The Big Change Has Yet to Happen, Michigan

Bar Journal, Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Issue, August 1985.

TEACHING AND LECTURING: Adjunct professor, Cooley Law School, 2005-present, Trial

Skills Class and Moot Court. Lecturer and workshop leader at numerous CDAM and Michigan

Trial Lawyers Association (MTLA) seminars for lawyers, beginning in 1987. Instructor at the

Trial College for lawyers of CDAM at Cooley Law School (2004-present). Workshop leader,

moderator, or panel participant for presentations by the National Conference of Chief Justices

and State Court Administrators, Michigan Judicial Institute, Wayne State University Medical

School, the State Bar of Michigan, the Institute for Continuing Legal Education, the Michigan

Association of Counties, and the Associated Press; Guest Lecturer at Detroit College of Law,

Trial Practice Class, and University of Michigan, Criminal Law Class; Speaker at various local

bar association meetings throughout Michigan; guest appearances on Detroit radio and

television talk shows.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Current: Member, National Association of Criminal

Defense Attorneys, CDAM, State Bar Committee on Justice Initiatives (CJI), Co-chairperson of

the Criminal Issues Initiative of the CJI, member of the Michigan Public Defense Task Force of

the Michigan Counsel on Crime and Delinquency. Past: Chairperson, State Bar Task Force and

Committee on Assigned Counsel Standards; President, CDAM; board member, CDAM; vice

president and member of LADA Board; member of the Defender Systems and Services

Committee of the State Bar, MTLA board, State Bar Committee on Victims Rights, Detroit Bar

Association Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services; evaluator and monitor for Legal Services

Corporation (evaluating legal aid offices) and for The Spangenberg Group (evaluating public

defense services); listed in Who's Who in the Midwest and Who s Who in the Law, and Tarlow,

National Directory of Criminal Lawyers, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Ed; testified as expert witness in state

and federal courts (expert on effective assistance of counsel).

REPRESENTATIVE CASES: (1) United States v. Melendez, et al., Eastern District of

Michigan (EDM), (2004); client, Detroit Police Officer, acquitted on 30 counts after ten week

trial. (2) United States v. Tocco, et al., EDM, (1998-2003); client only defendant acquitted after

fourteen-week RICO conspiracy trial. (3) In Re: Recorder's Court Bar, 443 Mich 110 (1993);

Supreme Court threw out low fee schedule for appointed counsel in Wayne County. (4) People

v DeLisle, 183 Mich App 713 (1990); represented client in nationally publicized homicide case.

Successfully suppressed confession, but client convicted after newspapers published

confession. (5) United States v. Ebens, 800 F2d 1422 (CA 6, 1986); the internationally

publicized Vincent Chin Case, and the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary movie

"Who Killed Vincent Chin? Client s conviction at first trial reversed on appeal and client

acquitted at second trial. Some representative appeals cases on search and seizure law: People v

LoCicero, 453 Mich 496 (1996); People v Davis, 442 Mich 1 (1993); United States v Townsend,

394 F Supp 736 (DC Mich, 1975).

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