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Cameron Bedard

Criminal Defense & Police Misconduct Civil Rights Attorney

Cameron Bedard founded Rights & Liberties Law Firm to fight systemic injustices perpetuated by the criminal legal system, the police, and government officers who abuse their powers. Cameron’s practice focuses on criminal defense and police misconduct civil rights violations.

As a former Colorado State Public Defender in Arapahoe and Denver Counties, Cameron handled thousands of misdemeanors ranging from DUIs, theft, and domestic violence to serious felonies. His felony caseload included fighting for his clients’ rights and liberties in major drug trafficking cases, sex offenses, aggravated robberies, violent crimes, attempted murder, and homicides. After serving as a public defender, Cameron went on to work at one of Denver’s premier boutique civil rights and criminal defense firms, The Frank Law Office. Together with civil rights wizard Adam Frank, he took on police officers, detectives, deputies, sergeants, and cities in high stakes civil rights suits achieving notable successes in excessive force, unconstitutional search, false arrest, prisoner abuse, and free speech civil rights cases.

Cameron lives for the good fight. He’s taken over 40 cases to trial where he’s won countless acquittals before the jury, secured a civil rights verdict against a cop who violated his client’s constitutional rights, and achieved midtrial dismissals after explosive cross examinations dismantled his opponents’ cases and exonerated his clients. Cameron’s proven track record of success goes beyond winning trials. Known for creative litigation, Cameron's command of the law and persuasive writing style has resulted in favorable rulings on complex constitutional issues and suppression motions that have led to the dismissal of charges against his clients. Cameron has overturned convictions on appeal, helped secure compassionate release for a BOP prisoner sentenced under draconian federal drug laws, and successfully challenged the legality of a client's 25-year sentence, getting the sentence vacated. Cameron fights with everything to win the day for his clients. He knows what the system does to people. This gives him a unique ability to connect with his clients, tell their stories, and humanize them. Cameron breathes real life experience into legal advocacy.

Cameron Bedard

Criminal Defense & Police Misconduct Civil Rights Attorney

As a former Colorado State Public Defender in Arapahoe and Denver Counties, Cameron handled thousands of misdemeanors ranging from DUIs, theft, and domestic violence to serious felonies. His felony caseload included fighting for his clients rights and liberties in major drug trafficking cases, sex offenses, aggravated robberies, violent crimes, attempted murder, and homicides. After serving as a public defender, Cameron went on to work at one of Denver’s premier boutique civil rights and criminal defense firms, The Frank Law Office. Together with civil rights wizard Adam Frank, he took on police officers, detectives, deputies, sergeants, and cities in high stakes civil rights suits achieving notable successes in excessive force, unconstitutional search, false arrest, prisoner abuse, and free speech civil rights cases.

Background, Awards, and Recognition

Cameron grew up in Rhode Island and has lived in Colorado since 2015. Working full time through college Cameron graduated from the University of Rhode Island where he majored in Political Science and minored in Philosophy. Cameron attended law school at the University of Colorado where he graduated in 2018. While in law school he received numerous scholarships, including the distinguished Barash Scholarship in 2017. During law school Cameron interned for the Colorado State Public Defender, where he worked in Weld County and later Jefferson County defending indigent clients and combatting injustice in an unbalanced criminal legal system. He championed his clients’ causes in both the University of Colorado’s Criminal Defense Clinic and Crimmigration Clinic. Cameron also clerked for Denver’s premier immigration law firm, the Meyer Law Office, where he advocated for noncitizens ensnared in the inhumane immigration removal process.

Bar Admissions

Cameron is admitted to practice in the State of Colorado and federal court in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.

Representative Cases

The following is a living list of representative cases where Cameron has spared his clients decades in prison for crimes they didn’t commit, negotiated dismissals where justice required, secured settlements or verdicts for good people whose rights were trampled by bad cops, or achieved some other novel victory against the carceral state on behalf of people.

June 2024. Secured a $400,000 settlement for our client in an excessive force case against Denver deputies at the Denver Jail. (Denver County). (Denver will pay $500,000 after settling lawsuits against law enforcement (denver7.com))
June 2024. Secured a $100,000 settlement for our client in an excessive force case against Denver police officers. (Denver County). ($100K settlement for Denver mom who called police for help (kdvr.com)
January 2024. Together with Adam Frank of The Frank Law Office secured a $37,000 settlement for our client in an unlawful search civil rights case. (Denver County).
January 2024. Violation of protection order case dismissed after securing damning video surveillance that exonerated client and incriminated the alleged victim in an abuse of civil process to obtain a protection order under false pretenses. Case dismissed. Records sealed. (Boulder County).
January 2024. Child abuse case dismissed after defense investigation revealed jaded ex made false statements to police and DHS in failed attempt to secure custody. Family remains strong and united. (Denver County).
December 2023. Theft charges dismissed for client who was trafficked after thoughtful presentation of client’s trying life circumstances. (Arapahoe County).
November 2023. After 20 + year struggle for freedom from state supervision, Cameron persuaded the State and a Judge to see his client’s human worth and completely terminate his client from SOISP probation. (Larimer County).
September 2023. DUI dismissed morning of motions hearing after extensive suppression litigation and defense investigation that revealed egregious police misconduct and racial profiling. (Adams County).
July 2023. Together with Adam Frank of The Frank Law Office won the first civil rights trial in the state under C.R.S. 13-21-131, Colorado’s civil rights law passed in response to the George Floyd and Elijah McClain protests securing a verdict against an Aurora Police Officer who violated his client’s constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches. (Arapahoe County).
April 2023. Together with Adam Frank of The Frank Law Office secured a rapid $50,000 settlement for our client in an excessive force civil rights case after an Aurora police officer punched client in the face. (Arapahoe County).
February 2023. Secured dismissal of multistate felony cybercrime conspiracy after uncovering evidence revealing client was exploited by organized fraudsters and persuading prosecutor to see client not as the criminal mastermind police made client out to be but as a young non-English speaking parent who was duped by unscrupulous transnational crime syndicates. (Las Animas County).
January 2023. Together with Adam Frank of The Frank Law Office secured an elderly client’s compassionate release from the Bureau of Prisons after client was sentenced to a de facto life sentence under draconian federal drug sentencing laws. (United States District Court for the District of Colorado).
January 2023. Police failed to persuade the DA to prosecute client for a homicide after a friend’s drug overdose, the DA figured out another way to turn a client’s life upside down when the State decided to expose client to 32 years in prison on a Class 1 drug felony special offender charge. Months of relentless defense investigation revealed that the alleged quantities of drugs were based on outrageously faulty measurements. The police lied about the weight in their probable cause affidavits and entered the weight of containers to reach the threshold weight needed to charge client with a serious drug distribution offense. Through tactful negotiations, Cameron was able to persuade the DA to put the drugs on the table and weigh them for himself. All felony charges dismissed. Case resolved with a DM1, no probation, and an order to return guns to a client. (Boulder County).
January 2023. The alleged victim assaulted a nanny and then made a false report to get nanny charged. Cameron secured a protection order for the nanny against the alleged victim, contacted the detective before charges were filed, and presented evidence to the detective that exonerated his client before charges were ever filed. No-filing agreement achieved. No criminal charges against client. (Jefferson County).
January 2023. Four counts of second-degree assault on a cop dismissed morning of motions hearing after extensive pre-trial litigation, the filing of motions to dismiss for outrageous governmental misconduct, and investigation revealed police beat client and lied about it to cover up their abuses of power. After achieving dismissal, Cameron filed a civil rights action on behalf of client against the police for excessive force, unlawful arrest, unlawful home entry, and malicious prosecution. Tables turned. (Denver County). Called 911 for help, punched instead: Denver mother sues police | FOX31 Denver (kdvr.com)
October 2022. Together Adam Frank of The Frank Law Office and Cameron secured justice and a $140,000 settlement for a peaceful protestor in a civil rights excessive force, First Amendment retaliation case against a Colorado Springs police officer who pepper-sprayed client in the face for speaking out against police brutality. Woman sues 5 Colorado Springs police officers and city after protest, arrest | Courts | gazette.com (United States District Court for the District of Colorado).
October 2022. DUID dismissed after defense investigation revealed that cop fabricated results of a DRE test – while body worn camera was on. (Summit County).
May 2022. Client charged with disturbance of the peace for exercising his right to protest in a public building acquitted after jury acquitted client in 8 minutes. Not guilty. (Denver County).
May 2022. Five counts of felony menacing with a gun charges dismissed after client’s successful completion of a 12-month deferred judgment to a misdemeanor charge. (Adams County).
February 2022. Arson charges dismissed. (Denver County).
September 2021. In a five alleged victim attempted homicide case Cameron canvassed neighborhoods, spoke with eyewitnesses, and built a strong case that revealed his client defended his home and children from a group of armed assailants who shot up client’s home in a gang related drive-by. Denver police failed to investigate the truth and missed critical forensic, video, and social media evidence that showed who shot first. With the help of Colorado State Public Defender investigator Beatriz Tamariz Cameron obtained critical evidence that made it indisputable that client was justified in shooting assailants to protect his family. After extensive make my day litigation, within days of trial the State caved and made a last-minute plea offer to F4 assault with a 4-year sentence. Client paroled in 2. He was facing 240 years in prison. (Denver County).
March 2021. Cameron overturned a client’s 25-year sentence in a novel 35(c)(2)(III) post-conviction case that challenged the trial court’s jurisdiction to impose a 25-year sentence on his client. Cameron won. The court vacated his client’s 25 year prison sentence. (Denver County).
February 2020. Domestic violence assault case dismissed midtrial after explosive cross examination of alleged victim revealed bizarre motives and strange secrets alleged victim forgot to tell the police, like being caught on a ring camera pointing a gun at client’s house. All charges Dismissed during trial. (Denver County).
February 2020. Winning on appeal Cameron overturned his client’s conviction in a domestic violence self-defense case after he challenged the trial judge’s structural error in properly instructing the jury on the law of self-defense. The appellate court agreed. (Arapahoe County).
January 2020. A hotel party got out of control, so the hotel manager called the police and falsely claimed that a man was exposing himself to children. That party stopped quick for a young man whose rights, liberties, and good name was on the line. This meanspirited allegation resulted in client being charged with a sex offense that never happened. Cameron and Alexa Arndt fought tooth and nail for their client and achieved a full acquittal saving client’s reputation and sparing client from a wrongful conviction. Not guilty. (Denver County).
November 2019. In a First Amendment right to protest case where client was charged with obstruction after protesting against Mayor Hancock’s policies during a mayoral speaking event, Cameron and Alex Monk achieved a complete acquittal for their client and a victory for free speech in Denver. (Denver County).
September 2019. Client acquitted of DUI after jury trial. Not guilty. (Denver County).
August 2019. Client acquitted of DUI after jury trial. Not guilty. (Arapahoe County).
July 2019. Client acquitted of violating protection offense after jury trial. Not guilty. (Arapahoe County).
June 2019. Client acquitted of DUI after jury trial. Not guilty. (Arapahoe County).
March 2019. After jury trial, client acquitted of assault in self-defense case. Not guilty. (Arapahoe County).
February 2019. Cameron and Liz Delay acquitted their client of DUI after a jury trial where they introduced google map images into evidence to prove a client lived in a car that never moved. Not guilty. (Arapahoe County).
February 2019. Client acquitted of DUI and Child Abuse after cops pulled a gun on a father unbuckling baby from a car seat and arrested the wrong person in a hit and run report in client’s own driveway. Problem was, client wasn’t involved in the reported accident. After a jury trial the jury took a stand against incomprehensibly incompetent police. Not guilty. (Arapahoe County.)
January 2019. When law enforcement officers arrest a person for resisting arrest and obstruction it’s usually because law enforcement needs to justify the bruises all over a person’s body. Cameron and attorney Liz Delay secured their client’s acquittal while turning the table of parole officers who injured their client, tried to cover it up, and got caught. Not guilty. (Arapahoe County).
December 2018. After an emotionally charged jury trial, together with formidable attorney Dakotah Thompson the team achieved a complete acquittal for their client in a child abuse case involving a young mom trying to prevent her child from running away. Not guilty. (Arapahoe County).
November 2018. Cameron achieved a mid-trial petty offense loud noises plea offer after skillful cross examinations dismantled his opponents’ case and exonerated his clients in a self-defense domestic violence jury trial. A domestic violence conviction would have led to his client’s deportation. Everything was on the line. Client remained in the country united with family after fleeing an authoritarian country. (Arapahoe County).