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Sixty-eight working references for retaining counsel: how a retention runs, the standards the analysis applies, the questions answered plainly, and the vocabulary of the discipline. Written the way the reports are written: from the record, without embellishment.
Three experts. Over 110 years.
Professor Gregory Gilbertson (Ret.), FBI Special Agent Christopher Holland (Ret.), and Sheriff Robert Snaza consult with attorneys nationwide regarding police practices and procedures, use of force, false arrest, police misconduct, criminal, and self-defense casework.
CEO & OwnerThirty-eight years in four uniforms: street cop, soldier, professor, investigator. More than 220 matters in 42 states and D.C. since 2014, with testimony that has not been excluded at trial in any state or federal court.
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ConsultantMore than thirty-five years in public safety: twelve years and three terms as the elected Sheriff of Lewis County, Washington, and six years a commissioner of the state board that sets peace-officer training standards.
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ConsultantForty years of investigative casework, from patrolman in St. Louis County to the FBI in Chicago, and on to task forces in Afghanistan and Liberia. His work on the Idaho student murders is examined in Broken Plea, the New York Times bestseller by Christopher Whitcomb.
Full profileNever excluded. Professor Gilbertson’s testimony has not been excluded at trial in any state or federal court.
The Hon. Richard A. Jones United States District Judge“Mr. Gilbertson’s qualifications demonstrate extensive experience in policing. His expansive work as a police officer in Georgia, with assignments as a SWAT team officer, juvenile court investigator, school resource officer, stakeout squad officer, senior patrolman, and patrolman; then a career as a tenured college professor and university lecturer teaching criminal justice courses to degree-seeking students at colleges and universities, and as a licensed private investigator conducting felony pretrial investigations for attorneys in Washington State in dozens of criminal cases, makes him unique in the field of police expert witnesses. The Court finds that, based on his experience, Mr. Gilbertson’s testimony can be expected to have a reliable basis in knowledge and experience of police practices.”
Retaining the Expert.
How a retention actually runs: timing, fees, the record, reports, depositions and trial, on the published schedule.
Standards & Method.
The standards and the method: what the analysis measures, what the record shows, and how the opinions are built.
Questions Counsel Ask.
Direct answers to the questions counsel ask before they send a record.
The Lexicon.
The working vocabulary of police practices litigation, defined the way the reports use it.
Reference is not retention.
These pages explain the discipline. A live matter needs the record, the conflict check, and the published schedule: start on the For Retaining Counsel page, or bring the matter directly below.
Bring a matter, not just a question.
Attorney inquiries are answered directly. If a case presents a conflict, you will hear it immediately.
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Conflicts are checked before any substantive discussion. Please do not send privileged material with a first inquiry; after retention the record is exchanged on physical media. Gregory consults for attorneys and their staff only, and does not provide legal advice or attorney referrals to individuals.