Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  Successful appeals handled by our office include constitutional challenges to municipal youth curfew ordinances, establishing the right to protest and resist police misconduct, overturning a law that prevented judges from setting bail during appeals, restricting police ability to disrupt familial ties as an investigative tactic, limiting police ability to seize firearms from innocent civilians, challenging prosecutors’ efforts to enforce probation conditions after probation ends, defining the constitutional right to probable cause hearings for defendants accused of serious offenses, establishing the right to obtain evidence favorable to the defense prior to probable cause hearings, establishing procedures for inquiries into jury racial bias, and successfully challenging warrants issued without probable cause,establishing the right to sue employers for hostile work environments based upon sexual orientation, limiting warrantless police entry into the side and rear yards of homes, precluding the use of firearm laws for possessing airsoft pellet guns. Attorney Schoenhorn has also written friend-of-the-court briefs for the Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association.
• DUI/DWI
• Murder
  In re: Dan Ross – Father unsuccessfully tried to stop his son, previously convicted of capital murder, from withdrawing his appeal so he could be executed.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
• Auto Accidents