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Luke Newman, P.A. is a Tallahassee criminal defense and appellate firm representing people charged with Florida and federal misdemeanor and felony offenses. Attorney Luke Newman, a graduate of the University of Texas and, with honors, Florida State University College of Law, began practicing criminal law in 2004 and opened his own practice in 2009. In 2011 he became Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Criminal Appellate Law, a certification held by fewer than 70 Florida attorneys. He later chaired the Florida Bar Criminal Law Certification Committee, which tests attorneys, prosecutors, and judges seeking criminal law certification. He served as president of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers for 2023 to 2024 and has edited the Florida Defender Magazine.

The firm handles criminal trials involving drug, violent, sex, theft, weapons, and white-collar charges, as well as probation violations. It also handles direct and collateral appeals, post-conviction relief, resentencing, death-penalty appeals, and federal matters including RICO and asset forfeiture. Cases are handled in both state and federal trial and appellate courts. As the sole attorney, Newman personally handles the substantive work on every case.

Federal criminal charges, including RICO and asset-forfeiture matters, are handled along with Florida trial work and with direct appeals, collateral appeals, post-conviction relief, resentencing, and death-penalty appeals. The Tallahassee office is the base for that state and federal trial and appellate work, and Newman, as the sole attorney, handles the substantive work himself.

Newman began practicing criminal law in 2004, five years before he opened Luke Newman, P.A. in 2009, and he has limited the practice to criminal trial and appellate matters. Drug-trafficking, sex-crime, and white-collar files are part of the trial docket, and federal appeals are part of the appellate docket along with Florida direct and collateral appeals, post-conviction relief, resentencing, and death-penalty appeals. As the sole attorney in the Tallahassee office, he handles that substantive work himself.

Luke Newman, P.A.
308 McDaniel Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32303
850-224-4444
https://www.lukenewmanlaw.com/