Pacific Confidential US 833-832-8100 Seattle 206-801-1911
Pacific Confidential PLLC
Serious litigation support for the most serious charges
Founded in 2007, Pacific Confidential is Cascadia’s most accomplished and experienced homicide and self-defense litigation support firm, providing consultation and case analysis, expert testimony, and fact and mitigation investigation. Expert services are provided nationwide, and investigative services are provided throughout Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and the 9th US Judicial District.
Certified Force Science Analyst accreditation ensures unimpeachable expertise, grounded on empirical peer-reviewed research in behavioral science, human dynamics, and cognitive influences in high-stress violence and lethal force incidents.
Our violent felony defendants, represented by competent counsel, have the greatest chance for a favorable outcome. We have handled over 1500 cases, and over 220 charged homicides and attempted homicides. Approximately 90% were not convicted as charged, and 70% yielded dismissal, acquittal, hung jury, successful appeal, or an exceptional downward sentence.
Our clients’ charges range from misdemeanor domestic violence to vehicular manslaughter to aggravated murder, including some of Cascadia’s most polarizing, notorious, and high-profile cases.
Pacific Confidential is the resource of choice for many of the region’s top-rated self-defense and homicide defense trial and appellate attorneys.
Lawyer lines:
North America 833-832-8100
Western WA 206-801-1911
Witness & Client line: 206-487-4487
We cannot accept recorded jail calls, or
speak with unrepresented defendants.
Expertise & Emphases
Violence perception, decision-making, and tactics.
Weapon effects and fallacies, and close-quarters
combat effectiveness. Cause and manner of death.
Injury kinematics, physiology, and wound effects.
Officer-involved & “blue on blue” use of force incidents
& arrest-related deaths. Police policy and practices:
recruitment, retention, training, tactics, accountability,
supervision, misconduct, and Brady & Franks issues.
Ballistics, firearm, ammunition, and toolmark and trace evidence analysis, attribution, specificity, and significance.
Eyewitness identification, recollection, and attribution errors.
Geolocation, including cellular and GPS forensics fallacies.
In-depth and persuasive mitigation investigation, exploring maturity and applied brain development science, supporting defensible determination of relative culpability and humane sentencing.
Approved CJA expert & investigator, US District Court, Western WA.
Rates & Authorization
An initial consultation and suitability review is always free.
$7500 initial funding entity commitment.
Expert service
$325/hour for private funding
$250/hour for public funding
Investigation
$155/hour for private funding
$125/hour for public fundin
Travel
$100/hour for travel time after first hour.
Mileage over 50 miles from Seattle at prevailing IRS rates.
Coach airfare when lower than driving time and mileage.
Lodging & per diem at regionally-adjusted GSA allowance,
per zip code of jurisdictional courthouse.
For detailed financial policies and CV of Greg Walsh,
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