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Attorney Profile
Attorney Profile
Thomas R. Mott was born in
DeLand, Florida, December 18, 1949. His grandfather, Rafael
Sanchez Mott, was a graduate of Stetson Law School, and was an
attorney in DeLand, Florida, in the 1920's through the 1940's.
R.S. Mott was the Volusia County Prosecutor and also was a U.S. naval officer with Teddy Roosevelt’s
Rough Riders, in the Spanish American War. Mr. Mott’s great
grandfather, Marshall L. Mott, was an officer in the United
States Army, during the Civil War. He was an attorney, in the
post-civil war era and served as legal counsel to the American
Indian Tribes, including chief counsel to the Creek Nation, under the U. S. Grant Presidency.
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In 1966, at the age of
seventeen and shortly after graduating from High School, Mr.
Mott volunteered for the United States Armed Forces. Mr. Mott
served as a military police K-9 handler. On his nineteenth
birthday Mr. Mott crossed the International Date Line, in a
military transport plane, on his way to Viet Nam. He served
one year in Viet Nam. Mr. Mott achieved maximum rank, staff
sergeant, in minimum time. While not seeing constant action,
he saw enough to learn first-hand about the high price of
American Liberty, which is nothing less than the blood of
young Americans.
After being honorably
discharged from the armed forces, Mr. Mott attended college at
the University Of California at Los Angeles. He received a
B.A. degree from UCLA, in 1977. Mr. Mott began his legal
studies in the Fall of 1977, at Florida State University,
College of Law, in Tallahassee, Florida. He received his Juris
Doctor Degree from Florida State University, in 1980. Mr. Mott was admitted to
the Florida Bar in 1980.
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In September of 1980, he
attended the CRIMINAL TRIAL ADVOCACY INSTITUTE, at the
University of Florida, sponsored by the Criminal Law Section
of the Florida Bar Association and the Holland Law Center.
This was a week of intense training in criminal trial skills.
In June of 1982, Mr. Mott
attended a two week Trial Practice Institute, at the
University of Houston, sponsored by the National College for
Criminal Defense. This institute involved extensive and
intensive training in criminal jury trials.
Mr. Mott has been a practicing criminal
defense lawyer, for over twenty seven years. During his years of
practice, he has represented clients in criminal cases, before
the United States Supreme Court, the United States Federal
District Courts, the Florida Supreme Court, Florida District
Courts of Appeal, Florida Circuit Courts, and Florida County
Courts. His practice includes defending misdemeanors, such as
DUI and felonies such as drug trafficking and murder, including dozens of death penalty cases. Mr. Mott
has dedicated his entire legal career to defending The Bill Of
Rights and the principles of individual freedom and liberty,
for which so many young Americans have died. |
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