Civil Cases

Attorney John Q. Kelly serves/served as:

• Lead attorney for the Estate of Nicole Brown Simpson, et al. v. O.J. Simpson in the wrongful death action resulting from the homicides of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. The jury returned a verdict finding O.J. Simpson responsible for her death, and awarding punitive damages to the Estate of Nicole Brown Simpson.
  
  
• Attorney for Beth Holloway Twitty and Dave Holloway relating to the disappearance of their daughter, Natalee Holloway, while on spring break on the island of Aruba.
  
  
• Attorney for the Estate of Kathleen Savio, third wife of former Bollingbrook police officer Drew Peterson. A coroner's inquest originally ruled Ms. Savio had accidentally drowned in her bathtub, but a subsequent inquest ruled the death a homicide, paving the way for a wrongful death claim by the Estate against Drew Peterson.
  
  
• Attorney for Kathleen Caronna, who suffered a severe traumatic brain injury during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade when the Cat In The Hat balloon struck and broke a lamppost, which then struck Ms. Caronna on the head.
  
  
• Attorney for the Estate of heiress Anne Scripps Douglas of the Scripps publishing family. Ms. Douglas was bludgeoned to death by her husband, who then leapt to his death off of the Tappan Zee Bridge.
  
  
• Attorney for the Estates of Mike Bastardi, Sr. and Guy Bastardi, killed in an automobile accident by a woman going the wrong way on the Taconic Parkway in her vehicle.
  
  
• Attorney for the Estates of several victims of the Antelope Canyon flash flood disaster. A group of French teenage girls drowned while on a guided Trek America tour through a slot canyon in Arizona when a flash flood roared through it.
  
  
• Attorney for mother of Adrienne Martin, who died of a drug overdose at the residence of Budweiser Brewing heir August Busch IV.

Mr. Kelly also represents professional athletes, top corporate executives and media members on a variety of issues.

Criminal Defense Cases

• Attorney for Eduardo Gomez, a Colombian air pilot charged with possessing several pounds of cocaine, a large amount of currency and illegal weapons. Alleged to have admitted to possession orally and in written statement to police.  Mr. Gomez faced a mandatory life sentence at trial.  He was acquitted by a jury of all charges after trial.
  
  
• Attorney for Patrick Kelly (no relation), General Manager of the Water Club Restaurant, charged with sixty-seven counts relating to the theft of several million dollars from the Water Club by alteration of checks and business records.  Mr. Kelly faced up to fifteen years in prison at trial.  He was acquitted by a jury of all counts after trial.
  
  
• Attorney for Joseph Pepitone, former New York Yankee great, charged with possessing a large amount of cocaine, a loaded weapon, currency and drug transaction records. He faced mandatory life sentence at trial.  Mr. Pepitone was acquitted by a jury of all felony counts after trial.

Mr. Kelly has successfully prosecuted and defended a number of other homicide and major narcotics cases at trial.