Complaint Review: John Todd O'Malley

We hired John Todd O'malley(Factoryville) for a criminal case in the state of Pennsylvania. We paid him $750.00 up front. We did all the leg work for this case of a accident in a tractor trailer that never happened. First hearing woman testified that it was a white truck, in fact it is burgundy. Also the cop at the light where it supposedly happened testified he never saw the truck hit the car. There is no police or accident report.. One cop says she was on the ramp and reported it, but there was no ramp to pull over from where I supposedly hit her. One cop says she came the next day to report it.

We took all pictures of the scene and located the supposed car. We let him handle everything and he did nothing. He went to one hearing for 5 minutes and a second hearing for 1 hour, he blew us off for the third hearng in which a public defender said this should have been taken care of and never gone any further. He called today requesting more money or he won't represent us. He hasn't helped us a bit and we are still fighting legally for my husband to save his license or we will have no means of supporting us finacially. Now we have no lawyer and don't know where to turn. He left a message today the 15th of April saying I had to plead guilty or (we couldn't understand message from his attitude).................

Joseph
Factoryville, Pennsylvania
U.S.A.