Rick L. Jancha
Orlando Criminal Defense Attorney
Criminal Defense Attorney Rick L. Jancha graduated
from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 1977. He was admitted
to the Indiana and Michigan Bars in 1977, and to the Florida Bar
in 1993.
Rick Jancha started his legal career as a criminal defense
attorney. For nine years he defended drug trafficking cases,
white collar cases and numerous homicide and death penalty cases.
He was co-chair of the Criminal Law Section of the local county
bar association.
In 1986, lawyer Rick L. Jancha was recruited by
the Department of Justice to head up its’ Organized Crime Drug
Task Force in South Bend, Indiana. In 1989, Rick transferred to
Orlando and continued his role as an organized crime and federal
narcotics task force attorney.
Rick served as a Manager in the States Attorney’s Office in
Orlando for five years being responsible for reviewing all criminal
prosecutions. For two years, Rick served as Chief of the District Wide
Narcotics Unit and was responsible for supervising all federal drug
prosecutions in 35 counties across Florida. He also worked with the
White House and Congress in obtaining Central Florida’s, designation
as a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. He served as Chair and Vice-Chair
of its’ Executive Committee which oversaw the formation and implementation
of the law enforcement initiatives of sixteen Central Florida law enforcement
agencies.
Due to his extensive experience and expertise in criminal law, Attorney
Rick Jancha has consistently been sought out as an instructor
for various federal, state and local law enforcement agencies,
and for victim advocacy groups. He has taught law enforcement and
other
federal and state prosecutors concerning the handling cases involving
international drug trafficking, money laundering, the investigation
of computer and white collar crimes, utilization of wiretaps and
the prosecutions of cases involving improvised explosive devices
(bombs).
Defense Attorney Rick L. Jancha has also extensive
teaching experience in the international arena. On numerous occasions
he has acted as an instructor for the Department of Justice and Department
of State in the International Programs Section for the Federal Law
Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia. He has taught judges,
prosecutors, law enforcement and various banking officials in St. Petersburg,
Voronezh, Khabarosk and Moscow, Russia; in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and
in Vilnius, Lithuania. Most recently, Rick assisted the United Nations
on its’ efforts to set up an interim government and legal system
in Pristina, Kosovo by reviewing and teaching the new criminal procedure
code and criminal laws to members of the interim government and all
participants of their judicial system.
We are very excited to have Rick Jancha join our law firm in Orlando.
His knowledge and experience in the proper procedures that must be
followed by law enforcement to obtain and use “wiretaps” in
court proceedings (he personally has handled over 100 federal wiretap
applications), greatly enhances our firms ability to ensure the continued
best representation for our clients.
Criminal Defense Attorney Rick Jancha practices criminal law
and his reported cases are as follows:
FEDERAL CASES:
* United States vs. Nyhuis, 211 F. 3d
1340 (11th. Cir. 2000)
* United States vs. Bush, 209 F. 3d 723 (11th.
Cir. 2000)
* United States vs. Lambert, 176 F.
3d 496 (11th. Cir. 1999)
* United States vs. Khawaja, 118 F. 3d 1454
(11th. Cir. 1997)
* United States vs. Johnson, 89 F. 3d
778 (11th. Cir. 1996)
* United States vs. Nyhuis, 8 F. 3d 731 (11th.
Cir. 1993)
* United States vs. Yesil, 991 F. 2d
1527 (11th. Cir. 1992)
* United States vs. Somers, 950 F. 2d 1279
(7th. Cir. 1991)
* United States vs. Landaw, 940 F. 2d
666 (7th. Cir. 1991)
* United States vs. Sergio, 934 F. 3d 875
(7th. Cir. 1991)
* United States vs. Brumbaugh, 909 F.
2d 289 (7th. Cir. 1990)
* United States vs. Baker, et. al., 905 F
2d 1100 (7th. Cir. 1990)
* United States vs. Buggs, 904 F. 2d
1070 (7th. Cir. 1990)
* United States vs. Duprey, et. al., 895
F. 2d 303 (7th. Cir. 1990)
* United States vs. Teslim, 869 F.2d
316 (7th. Cir. 1989)
* United States vs. Landaw , 727 F. Supp.
481 (N.D. Ind. 1989)
* United States vs. Gridley, 725 F.
Supp. 398 (N.D. Ind. 1989)
* United States vs. Hallam, 723 F. Supp.
66 (N.D. Ind. 1989)
* United States vs. Weidner, 703 F.
Supp. 1350 (N.D. Ind. 1988)
* United States vs. Weidner, 692 F. Supp.
968 (N.D. Ind. 1988)
* United States vs. Sullivan, 857 F.
2d 1476 (7th. Cir. 1988)
* United States vs. Ayala, 828 F. 2d 22 (7th.
Cir. 1987)
STATE CASES:
* Miller vs. State, 500 N.E. 2d 193
(Ind. 1986)
* Moore vs. State,, 498 N.E. 2d 1 (Ind. 1986)
* Young vs. State, 493 N.E. 2d 455 (Ind.
1986)
* Griffin vs. State, 493 N.E. 2d 439 (Ind.
1986)
* Hartlerode vs. State, 470 N.E. 2d
716 (Ind. 1984)
* Voss vs. State, 469 N.E. 2d 788 (Ind. App.
3 Dist. 1984)
* Fox vs. State, 457 N.E. 2d 1088 (Ind.
1984)
* Fox vs. State, 439 N.E. 2d 1385 (Ind. App.
3 Dist. 1982)
* Yates vs. State, 429 N.E. 2d 992 (Ind.
App. 3 Dist. 1982)
* Rock vs. State, 426 N.E. 2d 1320 (Ind.
1981)
* Vaughn vs. State, 426 N.E. 2d 113
( Ind. App. 4 Dist. 1981)
* Fordyce vs. State, 425 N.E. 2d 108 (Ind.
1981)
PRACTICE AREAS: Criminal Law.
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