Craig Powell

For over 15 years, Craig has built trust with his clients through his willingness to listen and provide honest advice, his dedication to their causes, and his demonstrated courtroom skill. He has used his legal research, writing, and courtroom abilities to win not-guilty verdicts and pre-trial dismissals in a wide variety of cases, including prosecutions for homicide, sexual assault, child pornography, arson, drugs, and OWI. In addition, Craig has secured countless beneficial results for clients through favorable pre-trial diversions, plea bargains and contested sentencing hearings. Craig embraces the challenge of the most difficult cases, having frequently been called to defend individuals charged with serious offenses, generating significant local and national publicity. Craig’s clients speak to his faith and trust in him, and the results he has achieved for them speak for themselves. In addition to his trial practice, Craig leads the firm’s appellate and postconviction practice and has argued frequently before the Wisconsin Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. Craig’s first appellate victory came in a case he began handling as a law student, and he has continued to obtain substantial victories for his appellate clients at Hart Powell, S.C., winning new trials for defendants sentenced to decades in prison after convictions for sexual assault of a child and first degree reckless injury; reversals of felony OWI and drug convictions; substantial sentence modifications; and the preservation of a defendant’s right to access a witness’s privileged records in order to present a defense. Craig is also an active member of the criminal defense bar. He has been on the faculty of the Annual Conference on Recent Developments in Criminal Law, sponsored by Marquette Law School and the Milwaukee Bar Association; has spoken to aspiring trial lawyers at Marquette University Law School; and has presented on ethics to Federal criminal law practitioners.