Molly Brizgys

Molly Brizgys has represented hundreds of clients at all stages of the state and federal criminal justice systems, from trial to appeal to post-conviction to parole. Her clients have included everyone from sophisticated executives to death row inmates to juveniles sentenced to life without parole and her cases have ranged from  financial crimes to firearms offenses, and from wire fraud to murder. She has significant experience with a wide variety of criminal cases, including violent crimes, sex crimes, identity theft, wire fraud, tax fraud, and money laundering with losses in the million of dollars. Molly has argued several times in front of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on issues of double jeopardy, the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, juvenile life without parole, and challenges to highly restrictive supervised release conditions. She has also litigated issues relating to unconstitutional detention, selective prosecution, arbitrary enforcement, federal jurisdiction, and various constitutional challenges related to searches and interrogations.

Molly is particularly skilled at guiding her clients through what are often daunting and frightening encounters with the criminal justice system. She takes particular care to learn about her clients in order to tell their story at critical moments in the case, such as when the client is seeking release from jail before trial and at sentencing.  Following a conviction, she also works hard to help her clients get their lives back together, for instance by representing them in their application for early termination of probation, by representing them in front of the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency and by helping them to apply for the restoration of their civil rights.