Because Mr. Steering has been involved in litigating police misconduct cases, he is familiar with obtaining types of helpful evidence that the regular criminal practioner just doesn’t know much about.
From Mr. Steering’s very first day as a lawyer, June 25, 1984, he has blazed new legal trails on behalf of those falsely accused of crimes. On that day, Mr. Steering was the first lawyer in the English speaking world, to use the “writ of habeas corpus”, to obtain a Georgia car salesman’s driver’s license back; by inventing a legal remedy, for vacating a misdemeanor traffic conviction, when the person was not in custody, on probation or on parole Hardison v. Martin, 254 Ga. 719 (1985).
Mr. Steering was also able to convince the Third Division of the Fourth District California Court of Appeal to vacate a felony-murder conviction by proving that PCP sales is actaully not a crime that is dangerous enough to subject the seller to murder liability if the customer dies from using the drug. People v. Taylor (1992) 6 Cal.App.4th 1084, 8 Cal.Rptr.2d 439.
