DUI & DWI
Breath and blood evidence is chemistry, and chemistry is challengeable. We attack the stop, the calibration logs, and the maintenance records the lab hopes you never request.
Former Prosecutors · State & Federal Defense
Protect your record. Protect your future.
A charge is not a conviction. We are a criminal defense practice built by attorneys who once filed these cases for the state — and now dismantle them for you.
What we defend
If the state has a name for it, we have a defense for it.
Drug Charges
Possession, distribution, trafficking. Search and seizure is where most of these cases are won.
Assault & Violent Crime
Self-defense, mistaken identity, exaggerated injury. We rebuild the night from the evidence up.
Domestic Violence
High-stakes, fast-moving, and often built on one account. We find the rest of the story.
Federal & White-Collar
Wire fraud, conspiracy, grand-jury targets. Federal cases are won long before indictment — in the room, before charges are filed. That is when you want us already at the table.
Theft & Property
From petty theft to felony burglary — protecting the record that follows you to every job application.
Why Sentinel
We learned this system from the inside.
Two of our attorneys spent years as prosecutors. We know how charging decisions get made, how officers are coached to testify, and precisely where a case is weakest — because we used to be the ones building it.
- Combined years in criminal law
- 34
- Years as prosecutors, before the switch
- 17
- Cases resolved without a conviction
- 1,200+
- Average callback, day or night (minutes)
- 14
- Availability
- 24 / 7
Founding Attorney
Marcus R. Thorne
Former Deputy District Attorney · Board-Certified Criminal Law Specialist
“I spent eleven years putting people in prison. I know exactly how the state builds a case — and exactly where those cases break. That is the difference I bring to the other side of the table.”
- 11 years · Deputy District Attorney, Major Crimes Unit
- Board-Certified Specialist, Criminal Law
- National College for DUI Defense · Fellow
- 94 jury trials to verdict
- Named to the state's Top 100 Criminal Defense list, 2019–2024
Client testimonial
They picked up at one in the morning. By the arraignment they already knew the arresting officer's record better than he did. Ninety days later the case against me was dismissed — and I got my life back.
— D.R., felony charge dismissed · verified client, name withheld by request
How it works
From the first call to the last word in your file.
Four steps. The first one happens the moment you call — no matter the hour.
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The First Call
You reach a defense attorney, not a machine — 24 hours a day. We tell you what to say, what to sign, and what to never do next.
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Investigation
We pull the reports, the footage, the calibration logs, and the witness list. We build a timeline the state has to answer to.
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Strategy
Suppress the evidence, discredit the stop, or take it to a jury — we choose the path that protects your record, and we tell you why.
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Resolution
Dismissed, reduced, or acquitted. We do not consider it finished until your future is protected.
Free · Confidential · No obligation
Talk to a defense attorney before you talk to anyone else.
Tell us what happened. Everything you share is protected and privileged. We will call you back — usually within the hour, always the same day.
- Reach an attorney directly, 24/7
- Nothing you say leaves this office
- No fee to find out where you stand