About George Reres

George Edward Reres was the 2016 Broward Criminal Defense Attorney’s Association: “Gulkin Award” winner. It is the most prestigious award given in the field of criminal law, and recognizes a lifetime of accomplishments as well as the respect of his peers.

​Mr. Reres had his first trial in a Broward County courtroom over 35 years ago. Over the ensuing years, he has been lead counsel in over 200 Felony Jury Trials, over 100 of them for charges carrying up to life in prison. He has been trial counsel in 27 First Degree Murder trials.

Mr. Reres’s cases have been featured in the national media and covered live nationwide on CourtTV, MSNBC, CBS News, 60 Minutes, and the WE Network. His work and legal opinions have been reported on and commented on numerous times in Local and National print media.

Mr. Reres has represented 6 different defendants whose alleged crimes were featured on the popular television program, “America’s Most Wanted”.

From 2013 through 2016, Mr. Reres has won FIVE ACQUITTALS. In cases where his clients faced a likely life sentence including a co-defendant First Degree Murder case where Mr. Reres’s client was acquitted while the co-defendant was convicted and sentenced to life.

From 2004 to 2008, Mr. Reres was a member of the prestigious “FPDA Death Penalty Steering Committee”. He is a former Editor of the Capital Motions Sections of FDPA Death Penalty Training Manual, and has assisted mentoring and training numerous younger attorneys to handle capital cases.

When the United States Supreme Court recently ruled Florida’s death penalty unconstitutional in the Hurst case, Justice Sotomayor’s ruling was already familiar to Mr. Reres. He and his former trial partner, now Circuit Judge Sandra Perlman, were the first attorneys in the state of Florida to make that winning argument more than 15 years ago!

Mr. Reres was also one of the first attorneys in Florida to train psychologists and social workers as “Mitigation Specialists” in Capital cases. The use of mitigation specialists is now the standard in the Federal Criminal Justice System, and in most states.

Mr. Reres has been a Lecturer/Speaker at the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, and has lectured at Nova University on Psychology and the Law, and at the Liven College of Law at the University of Florida on Jury Selection in High Profile Cases.

He is a three-time winner of the Hat Trick Award by the Broward County Criminal Defense Attorney’s Association, presented after twice winning 3 not guilty felony trial verdicts in a row.