DURING HIS MORE THAN 40 YEARS OF PRACTICE AS ONE of New Jersey’s leading criminal defense attorneys, Bob Galantucci has kept a well-worn copy of the United States Constitution on the left hand corner of his desk. That document, and especially the Bill of Rights, is sacred text to him, and the polestar of every case he defends.
Whether his client is a private citizen charged with a “street” crime, or a public official accused of wrongdoing, each one knows Galantucci’s reputation for vigorous independent advocacy, dogged defense of the accused’s fundamental rights, and mastery of the facts. His style is to get to the heart of the issues of every case rather than to “blow smoke.” Even though his cross-examinations are often more succinct than those of most criminal attorneys, they are, by general agreement, more effective and often devastating.
The New Jersey Law Journal dubbed Galantucci a “dream team of one.” In fact, as Galantucci acknowledges, his “team” is his entire firm of professionals, each of whom has extensive experience in the field of criminal law.
After graduating from Louisiana State University and New York Law School, and before starting Galantucci & Patuto, Galantucci worked as an Assistant Prosecutor in Bergen County, where he became Chief of the Homicide Squad. Throughout four decades in private practice in the firm where he remains the senior partner, Galantucci appeared as counsel in many high-profile cases, including the successful defense of Teaneck Police Officer Gary Spath, charged with manslaughter. But high-profile or not, as Galantucci says, “each client’s case is the most important case in the office, to him and to me.”
Galantucci has frequently lectured at both professional seminars and at police academies on the Fourth Amendment and other constitutional issues; and he has been a familiar commentator on Court TV, as well as other television and radio broadcasts. Among the first in New Jersey to be designated a Certified Criminal Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court, Galantucci is listed in Who’s Who in New Jersey, and maintains the coveted AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell®.
In an age when so many defense attorneys pick and choose cases based on the “star” quality, Galantucci adheres to the quaint notion that under our system of justice, every defendant is entitled to the most vigorous and professional defense available. That is the way he has always practiced law, and that is the way he always will.
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