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Scott C. Gyllenborg
Private Practice Lawyer
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Practice Areas
Criminal Defense(100%); Assault and Battery; Burglary; Capital Offenses; Criminal Appeals; Criminal Investigation; Civil Forfeiture; Criminal Conspiracy; Criminal Forfeiture; Criminal Fraud; Criminal Prosecution; Death Penalty; Drivers License Suspension; Driving While Intoxicated; DUI/DWI; DUI/DWI Felonies; Drug Crimes; Electronic Surveillance; Expungements; Extortion; Extradition; Federal Criminal Law; Felonies; Forgery; Grand Jury Practice; Habeas Corpus; Homicide; Mail Fraud; Manslaughter; Misdemeanors; Murder; Parole and Probation; Post-Conviction Remedies; Search and Seizure; Sexual Assault; Sex Crimes; Theft; Traffic Violations; Vehicular Homicide; Weapons Charges; Wire Fraud; Wiretapping
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Admitted
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1988, Kansas; U.S. District Court, District of Kansas; U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 2005, U.S. Supreme Court; 2006, Missouri; U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri
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Law School
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University of Kansas, J.D.
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Member
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Johnson County (Member, 1989; President-Elect, 2005-06; President, 2006-07; Criminal Law Bench/Bar Committee, Member, 1991, Co-Chairman, 2000-06, Vice-Chairman, 2009), Kansas City Metropolitan (Sustaining Member; Criminal Law Bench Bar Committee; Co-Chairman: Federal Court Advocates Section, CLE Committee, 2009; Membership Committee, 2010); Kansas (Criminal Law Section) and American (Criminal Justice Section: Ethics, Gideon & Professionalism Committee; Litigation Section) Bar Associations; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; National Conference of Bar Presidents (Membership Committee); Earl E. O'Connor American Inn of Court (Master of the Inn).
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Biography
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Assistant District Attorney, Johnson County, Kansas, 1989-91. Director, Olathe Arts Alliance, 1992-94. Trustee, The Barstow School, 1997-2003. Member, International Mensa and American Mensa, 1976. Prosecuting Attorney, City of Mission Hills, Kansas, 1996. Adjunct Professor of Law (Trial Advocacy), University of Kansas School of Law, 2005. Fellow: Kansas Bar Foundation; Johnson County Bar Foundation.
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Born
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Kansas City, Missouri, April 3, 1956
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Reported Cases
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State of Kansas v. Maxon, 32 Kan. App. 2d 67, 79 P.3d 202 (2003).
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ISLN
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906802319
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History
Scott Gyllenborg, the managing partner of Gyllenborg & Dunn, P.A., was born in Kansas CIty,Missouri in 1956.
Specialties
Practice Areas:
DUI/DWI Felonies; Homicide; Misdemeanors; Traffic Violations; Drug
Crimes; Parole and Probation; Sexual Assault; Expungements; Assault and
Battery; Burglary; Capital Offenses; Criminal Appeals; Criminal
Defense; Criminal Investigation; Drivers License Suspension; Driving
While Intoxicated; Federal Criminal Law; Felonies; Forgery; Habeas
Corpus; Manslaughter; Murder; Post-Conviction Remedies; Search and
Seizure; Sex Crimes; Theft; Weapons Charges; Wire Fraud; Civil
Forfeiture; Criminal Conspiracy; Criminal Forfeiture; Criminal Fraud;
Criminal Prosecution; Death Penalty; DUI/DWI; Electronic Surveillance;
Extortion; Extradition; Grand Jury Practice; Mail Fraud; Vehicular
Homicide; Wiretapping
Recognitions
SCOTT GYLLENBORG is Past President of the 1,700-member Johnson County Bar Association.
He served as the Association's President in 2006-2007 and as its
President-elect in 2005-2006. Scott served two terms as an elected
Director of the Association, and seven terms as Co-Chairman of the
Criminal Law Bench/Bar Committee. He is on the Board of Directors of
the Johnson County Bar Foundation, the charitable arm of the Johnson
County Bar Association, and has served as Chairman of the Association's
Herbert W. Walton Annual Bench/Bar Conference.
In each of the last five years, Scott has been selected by his peers to the list of Super Lawyers in a poll conducted by Law and Politics magazine, which asked 23,000 Kansas and Missouri lawyers to nominate the best attorneys they have personally observed in action. Only five percent of all of the lawyers in Kansas and Missouri are named to the list of Super Lawyers. Scott has been selected in two categories: Criminal Defense and DUI/DWI.
Awards
SCOTT GYLLENBORG is Past President of the 1,700-member Johnson County Bar Association.
He served as the Association's President in 2006-2007 and as its
President-elect in 2005-2006. Scott served two terms as an elected
Director of the Association, and seven terms as Co-Chairman of the
Criminal Law Bench/Bar Committee. He is on the Board of Directors of
the Johnson County Bar Foundation, the charitable arm of the Johnson
County Bar Association, and has served as Chairman of the Association's
Herbert W. Walton Annual Bench/Bar Conference.
Scott is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers;
the American Bar Association and its Criminal Justice and Litigation
Sections; the Kansas Bar Association and its Criminal Law Section; The
Missouri Bar; and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association and its
Criminal Law and Federal Court Advocates Committees. He is a Master of
the Inn of the Earl E. O'Connor American Inn of Court, and has served
as a director of the Inn. Scott is a member of the panel of attorneys
qualified by the judges of the United States District Court for the
District of Kansas to represent accused persons under the federal
Criminal Justice Act. He is a member of the National Conference of Bar
Presidents, and serves on its Membership Committee.
Scott is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States of America,
and the bars of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth
Circuit, the United States District Court for the District of Kansas,
and the United States District Court for the Western District of
Missouri. He is a Sustaining Member of both the American Bar
Foundation and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, and is a
Fellow of both the Kansas Bar Foundation and the Johnson County Bar
Foundation. Scott also is a Life Member of The Historical Society of
the Tenth Judicial Circuit.
In each of the last five years, Scott has been selected by his peers to the list of Super Lawyers in a poll conducted by Law and Politics magazine, which asked 23,000 Kansas and Missouri lawyers to nominate the best attorneys they have personally observed in action. Only five percent of all of the lawyers in Kansas and Missouri are named to the list of Super Lawyers. Scott has been selected in two categories: Criminal Defense and DUI/DWI.
In
2007, Scott was elected to the Tenth Judicial District Nominating
Commission by a vote of the 3,000 members of the Tenth Judicial
District of Kansas. The commission nominates to the governor of Kansas
candidates for appointment to the Johnson County district court bench.
Scott is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Kansas School of Law
in Lawrence, teaching Trial Advocacy to second and third year law
students. He is a regular speaker at continuing legal education (CLE)
courses in criminal law and criminal procedure. In March 2003 and
December 2005, he presented CLE seminars on strategies for handling DUI
cases. Also in 2005, Scott presented two CLE seminars sponsored by the
Johnson County Bar Association on the subject of ethics for criminal
defense lawyers. Each year he presents a continuing legal education
program to members of the Earl E. O'Connor American Inn of Court.
In
2005, Scott testified before the Kansas Senate and House Judiciary
Committees in support of legislation designed to ensure low-cost public
electronic access to state court records. That legislation became law
in 2006.
Scott Gyllenborg has been the City Prosecutor for the City of Mission Hills, Kansas since 1996.
In
addition to his activities in the legal profession, Scott is involved
in his local community. He remains involved with his alma mater, The
Barstow School, an independent co-educational day school founded in
1884 in Kansas City, Missouri. Scott served Barstow as a trustee of
the school for six years, as a member of the alumni association board
of directors for four years, and as a class representative for the
Class of 1974. He was chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee of
the Barstow board of trustees during the capital campaign which funded
the design and construction of the new Lower School buildings. He is a
member of the Jayhawks for Higher Education Committee of The
University of Kansas, and is a member of the Leawood Chamber of
Commerce. Scott has served on the board of directors of the Olathe
Arts Alliance, and the Olathe Region United Way. He is a member of
both American Mensa and Mensa International, as well as the BMW
Motorcycle Owners of America.
In 1995 during live television coverage of the multiple murder trial of O. J. Simpson, Scott was an on-screen legal analyst for WDAF-TV, the FOX network affiliate in Kansas City, Missouri. He was a weekly live guest on WDAF's Morning Show
from 1996 to 2001, discussing a wide variety of legal topics. Scott
still appears on local television and radio as a legal analyst.
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Office Hours
Monday through Friday
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Evenings And Weekends By Appointment
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