John Ogles Attorney at Law - Jacksonville, Arkansas

Edward R.

Backing the Blue since Eagle Scout days, I called 911 trusting LE to remove a drug addict, Dustin Thomas (DT) 25, intruding my home twice in a row. He & his recently deceased brother Aaron were banned in writing for misuse of guns, drugs, alcohol & parental violence. The mom, Charlotte Davis (CD), a former houseguest, was a squatter, ignoring monthly ‘Notices to Vacate’. Inappropriately, the RCIA staff of Holy Souls Catholic Church had offered CD my home for bonding/grieving with DT after Father Marconi declared him ‘disturbed’. With a DoD security clearance, I refused. HSC Church staff called me ‘unchristian like’ and secretly told CD to ignore me. (CD then demanded more money to vacate/move, requiring a court ordered eviction).
At 55, LE help was required. DT was trespassing again. Under the influence, maternal hostilities increased,. With the 911 call underway throughout, we fought. Twice more upon his re-entering my home. Trust in LE was soon shattered when Deputy Lt. Theodore Haase of PCSD arrived, took charge & assessed the situation incorrectly.
Haase threatened to destroy everything I had worked for, my Security Clearance too with a conjured felony. His deputies & I opposed asking ‘why’. ‘Because I Can’ he said, even declaring DT to be my son, arresting me. A complaint to the Professional Standards Unit of PCSD was filed. Visits to Sheriff Doc Holladay resulted in Haase on a ‘Do Not Respond / No Contact’ order. We shook hands on that. Many have thanked me for standing up against Haase.
Pulaski County District Court declared ‘Nolle Prosequi’ from Haase’s false charges. The same Judge also granted my records to be sealed. ‘Reputation Defender’ was hired to help clean up the mess. I am a veteran officer with a distinguished career and certainly no priors.
Ogles Law Firm filed the Federal Complaint. The ‘Malicious Prosecution’ by Haase was a 4th and 14th Amendment rights violation. Well Done John! In court, Ogles said we would win. Depositions were hasty though. ‘You don’t win a case in deposition; it’s won in court’ was the mantra. Counsels’ instructions were to respond with ‘yes’, ‘no’ or ‘I don’t know’, preferably the latter. ‘Save this for trial’ for documents / evidence. These instructions cost us the narrative/upper hand.
Deposing Haase went well. With an Arkansas law book handed to him, Haase, he could not find any law(s) requiring homeowner removal/arrest in this case. Ogles easily determined Haase a skilled/polished liar, hiding behind ‘Qualified Immunity’. Haase committed perjury well, 14 false statements noted.
Ogle’s assumed CD would cooperate. Her hostilities & denial of her sons behavior/addictions caught Ogles off guard. While deposing DT, he was stoned, unaware of his surroundings & reason for being there.
Hired outside help drafted affidavits wrt the boys misuse of guns, drugs, alcohol, arrests & felony conviction(s) w/ proof CD was squatting. The affidavits were ignored/ineffective. Settling out of court was passed, believing a trial favorable. We were out-maneuvered-the opposing side crafty & working harder to prevent a court date. Defense atty A. Depper made a significant misleading statement to Federal Judge Susan W. Wright. Per Summary Judgement, she stated I had made offers of ‘rent’ for DT to reside in my home. Judge Wright fell for the false/twisted argument- ‘saved’ documents would have proved otherwise. Did I want to appeal Judge Wright’s decision – Absolutely!
The arrest caused workplace disruption by a senior co-worker. A hostile environment HR complaint was filed as he attempted to have me fired, quit, or lose a promotion. Per instructions, this was not mentioned during depositions. I should have spoken up on this too. We held our cards too closely.
The Summary Judgement was an upsetting travesty. A law professor from UALR and I discussed the case. An appeal to the Federal Court system with documents & facts purposely withheld could be submitted. How burdensome. Although this event happened pre-covid, the outcome is still wrong.

JeNese P.

10/10 don’t recommend
If you felt I Had to many charges for you to handle then you shouldn’t took my case. And that’s the problem you just wanted the money you didn’t give a damn about the case because you never listened to what was going on because if you did then you would’ve known that I didn’t hit a minor . ITS ALL GOOD GOD BLESS YOU ! I gave you that $1500 as a donation ,I guess .I would’ve been better off with a public defender, you live and you learn!!! Start listening more to your clients ,you do to much talking so therefore your not listening. I’ll defend my family at all cost so I guess my jail time was worth it ! FYI .. I hit the child mother not the child and only because the mother hit my child!

Bryan J.

I WAS REFERRED TO THIS ATTORNEY IN REFERENCE FROM MY INJURY CASE WHICH HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HANDLING MY CRIMINAL CASE WHICH ATTY. OGLES SHOWED UP LATE AND WAS VERY NEGATIVE AND VERY Nonchalant AND VERY RUDE IN FRONT OF MY WIFE AS TO OUR CASE WHICH I HAD TO FIRE HIM HE RECEIVED $20,000.00 FROM MY SETTLEMENT AND DID NOTHING IN MY CASE I GUESS AFTER TEXT MESSAGES TO MY INJURY LAWYER I AM NOT CONCERNED BUT THIS ATTY CONDUCT AND PROFESSIONALISM IS NOT GOOD PLEASE BE MINDFUL WHEN LOOKING FOR A LAWYER CAUSE IF IT YOUR LIFE & FREEDOM ON THE LINE DO NOT PICK HIM I KNOW WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES IN THIS THING CALLED LIFE BUT MY LAWYER I HAD TO PAY GOT MY CASE RESOLVED AND INFORMED THAT ATTY OGLES DID NOT DO ANYTHING ON MY CASE I AM GRATEFUL FOR THE PUBLIC DEFENDER & MY WIFE WHO ALSO HANDLED THE CASE BEFORE OGLES GOT THERE IN DISTRICT COURT WHICH CHARGES WAS DROPPED AND DISMISSED…MY FELONY CHARGED WAS LESSONED AND AS FAR AS THAT $20,000.00 GOD IS STILL GOOD CAUSE NO MATTER WHAT THIS MAN (ATTY OGLES) DOES NOT NEED TO DEFEND OR REPRESENT ANY ONE AND I JUST WANTED TO LET IT BE KNOWN…I SHOULD HAVE NEVER SIGNED FOR HIM TO REPRESENT ME CAUSE THAT WAS NOT ONLY A MAJOR MISTAKE BUT ALSO A FINANCIAL EVEN THOUGH I DID NOT PAY UP FRONT HE PLACED A LIEN ON MY SETTLEMENT AND I ENDED UP PAYING $7,500.00 WHICH WAS FOR BOTH CASES I HAD WHICH OGLES CHARGED ME $20,000 WHICH WAS WAY TOO MUCH…GOD IS IN CONTROL I KNOW GOD WILL MOVE AND I WILL BE REIMBURSED FOR HIM NOT DOING ANYTHING ON MY CASE

Scotty S.

Do not use this man. he will take you money and when it's time to go to court he's a sell out. Took me for $5,000.00 and the case was up for trial to be heard, come to find out he'd had been emailing with one of the people i was gonna fight in court!! Took their side over mine AFTER he told me and assured me that he was gonna fight for me. If you feel like wasting your money ,by all means go ahead and use him. Just get ready to get bent over a barrel and communicate via email 99% of the time. very unethical ! JOHN you and I both know you told me that you could win the case hands down. Far as research goes, I had done all of the research along with my wife. It was handed to you on a silver platter. And all you had to do was go to trial. But you corresponded with the opposing team. On top of that, you kept asking me to go to the courthouse to find more evidence. Also I asked you NOT to drop the case and you had went ahead and dropped the case a week or so before even telling me that you'd dropped it. Hush money must be paying goodand why in the hell would I pay you to investigate something when I had all of the paperwork that the courthouse had.There was nothing that showed my mother selling a darn thing. If you had any kind of experience and since you know well as I do that the corporation would have been disolved. Another thing, if there was no evidence or proof i don't think the judge would have wanted to hear the case and denied their motion for a trial. I believe the is some our forefather wrote saying something to the effect that everyone is due a fair and speedy trial and due process. And I've every piece of original paperwork along with every email that was sent between me and you backed up. You wouldnt allow me to see the evidence you claimed you had, so that's witholding evidence from me. I think 99.9 % of your reveiws say about the same mine says about how you stuck it to them for $5000.00 then find excuse to weasle yourself out of going to court. We will have to stand infront of judge of all judges and give account for all of the things that you did me included. But i can stand here and say that what you have done puts you in the same boat as the others that did me wrong. I was a minor at the time the incident occured and anybody with half of a brain knows fully well i was coverded under the (UMA) For you that would be uniform minors act. And also there's also a thing called (POD) For you that would be payable on death. I just feel for you when you have to gp before GOD,even though i shouldn't. Just remember, what's done in the dark WILL be brought to the light. I just hope someone reads this anddoesn't get screwed over like did and so many others that i read about in your reveiws. Sure wish I would have took the time to read the reveiws before handing you $5000.00!!!!!

Leah F.

Save your money. Don't use this attorney. To make a very long story short, we hired him to represent us in a case out of Texas, and he charged us $5,000 for a total of 14 emails! He also missed a deadline with the Texas courts to file a counterclaim, so we were beyond the time limit to file our case. We cut ties with him, and he wouldn't return any of our money, so we were out the $5,000 for a measly 14 emails of correspondence. That's nearly $400 for each email! Absurd, not to mention unethical.

Not to mention, he is incredibly rude when you ask him just about anything. He seems to make quick, knee jerk reactions instead of thinking things through. Definitely would not recommend.

Myron R.

This is the worst attorney in Jacksonville Arkansas. What he did to me when I hired him he took my money and then turned around and went and collected money from the other side then said I didn't have a court date and I lost and the judge told him I did have a court date so he screwed me over beware of him cuz he will probably do you the same way. He is not a good lawyer. In my opinion he is very crooked.

Anytime a lawyer goes and takes money from the person that you're suing it' what I call a backstabber.
If John ogle's tries to deny this then please look up the case you will see where the judge had admitted he sent the date for the court date for us to show up and John ogle's let it fly Right on by and he collected money from both sides he's a crook don't use.

John T.

Instead of representing us he capitulated without asserting anything. I wouldn’t hope him again for a wooden plug nickel.
Just got out of prison? My wife would have been really angry and my CDL would have been being used illegally. Please get your facts straight. Oh, that’s right, you don’t do that.

Snake B.

I would not recommend this
Man to any parent needing help with a wrongful death lawsuit of the child. He has a Texas license and my daughter lost her life in a terrible car accident in Canton TX. He was extremely rude and I was at my lowest after losing my 18 year old daughter. So maybe he was run down and overwhelmed with cases. He sent rude email replies also emailed at 2am on a Sunday morning telling me my about mistakes I made. Luckily I had a couple of close family members to keep grounded. It’s a hell of a thing to treat a grieving parent whom said they don’t know the law as a idiot. Hence the reason for why I asked him for legal advise. He was a terrible example of the professional attitude that other lawyers I’m familiar with have.