Jeff Sliz, one of the premier criminal defense lawyers in Gwinnett County, Georgia, explains how the legal system works from a defense attorney's perspective.
Jeffrey Sliz has been a successful trial lawyer for 32 years and represented over 10,000 clients. Impressively, he has defended numerous death penalty cases in his many years of practice and none of his clients have ever received a death sentence. Mr. Sliz is a cofounder of the Gwinnett County Criminal Bar Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, having previously served as its Vice President. He has been published in the *Georgia State Bar Journal*. Mr. Sliz graduated with a B.A. from Emory University in 1972 and from the Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University in 1975, where he was a member of the law review.