Terence M Lenamon

Terence M. Lenamon is an AV-Preeminent rated, Florida Bar board certified expert in the area of criminal trial law. With over 17 years’ experience and more than 100 jury trials under his belt, Mr. Lenamon has built a reputation as one of Florida’s most respected criminal defense lawyers. After working as a trial attorney in the Office of the Miami-Dade County Public Defender for five years, Terry established his state-wide private criminal defense practice in the Miami area in 1997. His practice encompasses both state and federal charges in Florida and nationwide, with special emphasis on capital litigation.

His skilled, high-quality defense has been sought by many high-profile clients including Casey Anthony, Cesar Mena, Armond Davis, Sedrick Johnson, John Harris, and Mario Larra and has led him through 20 first-degree murder trials and eight death penalty cases. That experience has brought him national recognition as a go-to commentator on death penalty issues. His cases have been profiled on national television shows including "The First 48," A & E "The Point," “Issues with Jane Velez Mitchell,” and “Nancy Grace” as well as in local media. He has successfully persuaded the State to waive the death penalty more than 26 times.

Mr. Lenamon is an active participant in the Trial Lawyer's College, founded by Gerry Spence, an advanced advocacy program renowned for its litigation techniques and strategies and has over 500 hours of Continuing Legal Education on the death penalty. Terry is a graduate of Nova University School of Law, May 1992. He received the Order of the Barristers Award for Courtroom Advocacy 1992 and Trial Advocacy Award: Trial Lawyers Section of the Florida Bar 1992. Mr. Lenamon has taught techniques in mitigation investigation for the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and was chosen to present techniques on creative brief writing in capital litigation. In 2009, Terry Lenamon founded the Florida Capital Resource Center, a statewide non-profit organization with multiple layers of participants all sharing one common mission: to assist indigent defendants facing the death penalty.