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Joseph P. Welch, Attorney at Law Criminal Defense – Activists and Dissenters – Personal Injury Menu Skip to content Home Activists Druglawyer Store Payments Proven Results and Satisfied Clients Secure Communications Joseph P. Welch, Attorney at Law Have you been busted for drugs? Have questions about your medical cannabis business? Charged with a serious crime? Interrogated by the police? You need an aggressive and experienced trial attorney to fight for you. Joe Welch has the skill, experience and track record to make sure that your rights are protected. Why Trial Experience is Key Whether or not you want a trial, you need an attorney experienced in trying cases in front of a jury – the only leverage you have against the government prosecutors in a criminal case or insurance companies when trying to get compensation for your injuries is your lawyer’s willingness to take your case to trial. Many criminal cases get dismissed right before trial, and even losing your trial is often better than settling for a plea bargain. Most lawyers never take cases to trial – they take your money and walk you into a plea bargain without investigating your case or fighting for you at all. Many of Joe Welch’s felony cases get reduced to misdemeanors or dismissed completely because he’s willing to put up a fight. The prosecutor knows whether or not your lawyer is willing to put up a fight. If your lawyer has never tried a case, the prosecutor holds the upper hand and will force you into a less favorable plea bargain. The Top Drug Lawyer While many lawyers handle drug cases, Joe Welch has earned his reputation as “the drug lawyer” through a combination of winning drug cases in the courtroom, advocating to end drug prohibition, and having the expertise to understand the science behind drug cases. Fellow lawyers in the community often seek his advice on novel or confusing issues in their own drug cases. He has been a leader in Missouri’s cannabis legalization movement for over a decade and is the go-to lawyer for marijuana issues. The Litigator Joe Welch has tried countless cases before judges and juries and has litigated hundreds of motions to suppress, dismiss, or otherwise undermine the state’s cases against his clients. His courtroom success and experience is unrivaled The Advocate For over 10 years Joseph Welch has been an active, public, and outspoken member of NORML – long before marijuana legalization had the public support it now does Drafted the 2009 petition to decriminalize marijuana in the City of St. Louis Has helped prosecutors challenge their own opinions about drug laws and mass incarceration He publicly fights for a society where law is no longer the tool of oppression The Scientist Joe Welch also has a bachelors degree in geology, a “hard science” of physics, math, computer science and chemistry where he studied and used many of the same instruments that the state’s drug chemists use in analyzing controlled substances Few lawyers know more about mass spectrometry, gas chromatography, specific versus presumptive tests, the Wiley library, and lab quality control than he does He also has extensive knowledge regarding the science of addiction, drug treatment and drug testing The Highest Credentials Top 100 Trial Lawyer by the National Trial Lawyers Ranked 10/10 Superb , Avvo’s highest rating Graduated from top ranked Washington University School of Law Attended the Missouri Bar CLE’s Advanced Trial College Teaches a CLE on defending protesters in criminal cases Member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) Member of the Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (MACDL) Member of the Missouri Association of Trial Lawyers (MATA) Member of the NORML Legal Committee Card carrying member of the ACLU Member of the Missouri Civil Liberties Association (MOCLA) Member of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) Practiced law for over 15 years Security Focused Your communications with your criminal defense lawyer should be private and secure – that’s why Joe Welch uses state of the art encryption to communicate with you and protect your secrets. The choice of a lawyer is an important one and should not be based solely on advertisements. Past results afford no guarantee of future results. Every case must be judged on its own merits. Copyright © 2002-2020, by Joseph P. Welch Leave a Reply Cancel reply You must be logged in to post a comment. Call 314/494-9729 calls answered 24/7 Joseph P. Welch 10.0 Joseph Peggs Welch Located in the Historic Dickmann Building at the corner of Grand and Arsenal 3115 S. Grand Blvd., Suite 100 St. Louis, MO 63118-1034 Call: 314/494-9729 Use Signal Private Messenger for encrypted calls and texts Recent Posts Missouri Police Chiefs message to all cops – Medical Marijuana is the Law Joe Welch featured on Lawyer Stories Get your official druglawyer Sixth Amendment tattoo shirt Free All Prisoners merch now available Highway Patrol Investigating Cannabis Clinic druglawyer on Instagram so my first #Zoom hearing went quite well... #freeallprisoners #freedomshouldbefree #lawyerstories #lawyersofinstagram #legalize #NORML #publicdefender #anarchist #cannabis #stl #stlouis #criminaldefenselawyer #notguilty #missouri #blacklivesmatter #quarantine #pandemic #covid19 While most courts have been prudently shutdown due to an emergency order from Chief Justice Draper of the #Missouri Supreme Court, hearings that are necessary to protect the #constitutionalrights of the #accused are still taking place. Today in an otherwise locked-down courthouse we tried a #felony preliminary examination with 3 live witnesses. The prosecutor took great care to protect the witnesses from #COVID-19 transmission and we used the largest courtroom and observed the best practices. My client attended the hearing by video from the jail. As the incarnated are a high-risk group for infection (they are unable to practice #socialdistancing and have less control over hygiene) this was for their protection. Infection spreads through #prison like wildfire. I fought hard for the release of my client both during but more importantly before the hearing. If my client had not been #incarcerated their #speedytrial rights would have been outweighed by the need to protect the community from this #pandemic and this hearing would have been delayed until this crisis passes. While this jurisdiction is very conservative the judges here created the model of progressive pretrial release practices and my client has a relatively low bond, but $500 might as well be $1,000,000 if you don't have it. Later today, as he and every other judge here does every week, this same judge is going to review the bond of everyone imprisoned on his orders and many of them will be released. As a prison abolitionist I don't believe anyone should be imprisoned but I am also practical and appreciate their work. #freeallprisoners #freedomshouldbefree #lawyerstories #lawyersofinstagram #legalize #NORML #GSTLNORML #publicdefender #anarchist #cannabis #stl #stlouis #criminaldefenselawyer #314 Now that the #GLI is back on the road I've been working my way across the state with another 1000 mile week. Monday started in the 22nd Circuit at the Civil Courts Building in downtown St. Louis for a shooting, then yesterday I was in the 12th Circuit appearing in both Warren and Montgomery Counties. This morning I started in Columbia at the Boone County Circuit Court (the 13th), then on to the Randolph County Justice Center in the 14th Circuit and finally Lafayette County in the 15th. I was supposed to be in Osage County this morning for a meth case, but that got dismissed and I didn't have to make the stop on the way to Columbia. Tomorrow I'll head down to the 25th with a couple felonies in Phelps County, a couple robberies in Franklin County (the 20th Circuit), then a pretrial for a robbery in Jefferson County (the 23rd) and then to the Ste. Francois County Circuit Court, home of the Fighting 24th. Maybe Friday I...