Attorney Profile

Kerry L. Armstrong attended Middle Tennessee State University, where he received a B.S. degree in Political Science. His minors were Criminal Justice and English. He received his law degree in 1997 from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. While there, he received numerous scholastic awards, including graduating cum laude. He also held the position of senior editor, and later executive editor, of the school's law review. Mr. Armstrong practices both adult criminal defense and juvenile delinquency law. Although Mr. Armstrong handles all types of criminal cases, he emphasizes his defense on those accused of sexual offenses (ranging from lewd acts in public to violent rapes to child molestation).

Mr. Armstrong has won not-guilty verdicts at jury trial on many different types of cases, including battery, domestic violence, child molest, rape, forcible oral copulation, lewd act in public, premeditated attempted murder, torture, conspiracy, sexual battery, false imprisonment, rape of an intoxicated person, gang rape, burglary, sodomy, kidnapping, forcible oral copulation, robbery, and first-degree murder (with a "special circumstance"). Other non-trial case results include having a Three-Strikes case reduced to a misdemeanor, a robbery case reduced to a misdemeanor (with no jail time), a child molestation case dismissed before trial, a spousal rape case dismissed on the day of trial, and assault with great bodily injury case reduced to a misdemeanor (with no jail time).

In September 2005, Mr. Armstrong won not-guilty verdicts in a trial where his client was accused of shooting a man to death, as well as robbing him. In that case, the District Attorney's Office had alleged a "special circumstance" that could have led that office to seeking the death penalty against Mr. Armstrong's client.

In May and June 2006, Mr. Armstrong won back-to-back rape trials. In the first, his client was accused of raping a federal prison inmate in a correctional facility. After spending five months in custody, the client was released following the not-guilty verdicts. In the second case, Mr. Armstrong's client was accused of gang rape, kidnapping, forcible oral copulation, sodomy, burglary, robbery, and sexual battery (23 counts in all). Following a four-week trial, the client was acquitted of all charges and was released from custody (where he had been held for over eight months).

In July 2007, Mr. Armstrong won most of a multi-count, high-profile child molest trial in which his client had three young girls at a school accusing him of molesting them, kissing them, and showing them pornographic movies. Mr. Armstrong's client was found not-guilty on 15 of the 17 counts. The client was therefore saved from a life sentence in prison.

In June 2003, Mr. Armstrong was featured on the hour-long season premiere of the reality TV show "Law & Order: Crime & Punishment" for a murder and attempted murder trial he conducted in 2002. His cases have also been featured on CNN, NBC Nightly News, newspapers in most every major U.S. city, all of the local San Diego TV stations, the City Beat, and the San Diego Union-Tribune. These media cases include a man accused in a violent hate-crime attack on a migrant farm worker, a minor accused of conspiring with two other boys to kill a middle school teacher, a man accused of domestic terrorism at the San Diego federal courthouse, a man accused of firing seven shots into a truck which was attempting to run over bar patrons, a YMCA daycare provider accused of molesting four young students, and a military man accused of distributing child pornography from a Navy ship.

Mr. Armstrong formerly worked for one of the largest criminal defense firms in San Diego, Steigerwalt & Associates, APLC. Mr. Armstrong worked there for a total of 11 years and honed his legal skills working on a large variety of cases.

Mr. Armstrong uses his experience and legal skills on every case to get the best results for his clients, whether that be a plea-bargain in the client's best interests, or a jury trial.

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Kerry handles cases throughout all of San Diego County and Southern California, including all of the following areas: South Bay and cities including Chula Vista, East Lake, National City, Mission Valley, El Cajon, La Mesa, Julian, Ramona, Vista, San Marcos, Rancho Santa Fe, Rancho Bernardo, Escondido, Mira Mar, Oceanside, Encinitas, Carlsbad, Solana Beach, Del Mar, Carmel Valley, La Jolla, Cardiff, Pacific Beach, Ocean Beach, Point Loma, Little Italy, Downtown San Diego, Hillcrest, North Park, Bonita, Tierrasanta, Alpine, Jamul, Descanso, Poway, San Ysidro, Linda Vista, Clairemont, and throughout Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Bernardino County, Imperial County, San Diego County and Riverside County.