John Henry Browne

John Henry Browne

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name = John Henry Browne


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birth_date = August 11, 1946
birth_place = Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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employer = Law Offices of John Henry Browne, P.S.
occupation = Attorney
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website = http://www.jhblawyer.com
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John Henry Browne is a prominent criminal defense attorney practicing in Seattle, Washington.

Background

Browne has represented defendants in a number of high-profile criminal cases. In one widely-reported, influential case he convinced a Washington State appeals court to overturn the murder conviction of Bruce Kunze, the first man ever convicted based on forensic earprint evidence. [cite news
url = http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/earprint23.shtml
title = Murder charges are dropped in ear-print case
publisher = Seattle Post-Intelligencer
author = Tracy Johnson
date = 2001-03-21
accessdate = 2007-06-16 ] [cite web
url = http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/forensics/fingerprints/7.html
title = Earprints
publisher = CourtTv Crime Library
author =
date =
accessdate = 2007-06-17 ]

Browne gained nationwide attention as lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed in 2007 by famous class action lawyer Steve Berman against Avvo, a law-related review site. [cite news
url = http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003748713_avvo15.html
title = Attorneys sue site that comes up with ratings on ... lawyers
publisher = Seattle Times
author = Tricia Duryee
date = 2007-06-15
accessdate = 2007-06-16 ] He was reportedly upset that the site had rated him "average" via a rating system that evaluates vertical disciplinary stature. [cite news
url = http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/319410_avvo12.html
title = Respected lawyer wants rating site Avvo closed
publisher = Seattle Post Intellgiencer
author = John Cook
date = 2007-06-12
accessdate = 2007-06-17 ] [cite news
url = http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1181898353512
title = Avvo Sued Over Its Lawyer Rankings
publisher = The National Law Journal
author = Peter Geier
date = 2007-06-18
accessdate = 2008-03-13 ] That suit was dismissed on pre-trial motion, on grounds that the ratings were expressions of opinion protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. [cite news|title=Lawyers' suit over site's legal ratings dismissed|author=Mike Carter|publisher=Seattle Times|date=December 19, 2007|accessdate=2007-12-28|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004081647_lawyers19m.html]

References

External links

* [http://www.jhblawyer.com/browne.jsp official biography] - on firm website
* [http://www.jhblawyer.com/news.jsp news links] - links to cases through 2001
* [http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/library/Avvo_Complaint_FINAL_secured1.pdf avvo complaint]


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