Primary Job Title Partner | Co-Founder Primary Organization CD Agency
Location Phoenix, Arizona, United States Regions Greater Phoenix Area, Western US Gender Male
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Arizona Criminal Attorney and Arizona DUI Lawyer David Michael Cantor has handled many high profile cases which have been covered by the local and national news media. He has been interviewed and has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, Inside Edition, the CBS Morning Show, Hannitty and Combs, and every local news channel including Univision. In
addition, his cases have been covered by CNN, MSNBC, and even Howard Stern.
About Arizona Criminal Attorney David Michael Cantor:
Certified Criminal Law Specialist since 1999 – per the Arizona Board of Legal Specialization
Listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers® – Criminal Trial Section
Voted Top 100 Trial Lawyer by the American Trial Lawyers Association® 2007.
The only Arizona Lawyer listed in the 2007 Southwest Super Lawyers® publication for Criminal Defense: DUI/DWI
Former City of Phoenix Assistant Prosecutor
Instructed the Fourth Annual DUI Conference for Judges
Former Trial Instructor at the Phoenix Police Academy
Former Instructor at the Arizona MVD Hearing Office Teaching Administrative Law Judges
Member of the National College for DUI Defense at Harvard Law School
Member of the Assoc. of Trial Lawyers of America; Criminal Law Section National Exec. Committee Member (1999 – 2000)
Member of the Arizona Trial Lawyers Association
Member of the Maricopa County Bar Association
Member of the American Bar Association
Life Member National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Life Member Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice
Some of David Michael Cantor’s high profile cases include the Michael Gherman Wal-Mart double capital murder trial; the complete acquittal of Valinda Jo Elliott (the woman who became lost in the forest and set a signal fire which ultimately became the Rodeo-Chediski fire – burning more than five hundred thousand (500,000) acres and four hundred and forty (440) homes); the complete acquittal of Richard Simmons (who was accused of slapping a rather large “cage fighter†who was taunting him at the Sky Harbor Airport); and most recently the complete acquittal of Sgt. Patrick Haab (an off-duty Army Reservist who took seven (7) illegal immigrants into custody at gunpoint because they had charged at him from the desert , at night, near a local highway rest stop).
The David Michael Cantor Defense Team takes pride in being knowledgeable in all areas of forensic sciences. This includes DNA technology; Latent Fingerprint technology; Ballistics; Drug Recognition technology; Serology and Bodily Fluids testing; Blood, Breath and Urine Alcohol testing methods; Gas Chromatography and Infra-Red Mass-Spectrometry. In addition, the Cantor Criminal Defense Team has an extensive law library with research materials regarding FBI, Department of Public Safety, State and Local Police investigation manuals.
