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OC Metro - "OC's Top Lawyers," August 1, 2009
"A former California state legislator and Orange County deputy district attorney, Ron Cordova has pursued a career that most other lawyers only dream of.  He has represented clients in 29 states and several foreign countries and has defended high-profile clients in Orange County and beyond.

Cordova, who has been practicing law for 36 years, 30 of them in private practice, takes pride in not delegating his cases to others.  He devotes his personal attention to each case, regardless of the client's financial situation.  He is accessible and answers his clients' questions in basic English, not legal jargon." 

"Tri-State Crematory" - Wikipedia.org
"Ray Brent Marsh was arrested on over 300 criminal violations and was ultimately charged by the State of Georgia with 787 counts, including theft by deception, abusing a corpse, burial service related fraud and giving false statements.  Marsh was facing a prison sentence of more than 8,000 years.  Marsh was represented by McCracken Poston who a few years before had been the lawyer for Alvin 'The Zenith Man' Ridley from nearby Ringgold, Georgia, and Ron Cordova of Newport Beach, California.  Cordova was a former Orange County, California prosecutor and like Poston, had served in the state legislature.  Both Poston and Cordova are experienced criminal lawyers who first teamed up two years earlier in the trial of Byron Looper for the murder of a Tennessee state senator.  The criminal cases against Marsh were settled after the Georgia Supreme Court had certified for review the defense question of whether a human corpse had any pecuniary value, an issue vital to the case in order to determine if the thefts could even be criminally prosecuted.  Marsh eventually pled guilty and is currently serving a twelve year sentence with credit for the time he had spent in custody before obtaining pretrial release on bond."

"Assassination in Middle Tennessee" - truTV by Mark Gribben
The Trial of Byron Looper Chapter: 
"Five hundred people were summoned for jury duty and two hundred showed up at the Sullivan County Courthouse to be selected for jury duty in mid-August, twenty-two months after [Tennessee State Senator] Tommy Burks was gunned down on his hog farm... Before a packed courtroom which held members of the Burks and Looper families, as well as District Attorney Bill Gibson's mother, the prosecutor stood before the 16-member panel and opened the state's case against Byron Looper... Looper listened intently to Gibson, showing little emotion, despite the seemingly insurmountable evidence against him.  He had faith in [Attorney Ron] Cordova and [McCracken] Poston, and had witnesses on his side, as well." 

For an experienced and highly qualified criminal defense attorney, contact Ron Cordova, Attorney at Law, for a consultation today.