Shawn Sukumar
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About Shawn Sukumar
Shawn Sukumar is a partner at Price Benowitz LLP with more than 10 years of criminal defense experience in D.C. Superior and Federal District Courts. His practice areas include DUI (from misdemeanor to felony), drug possession, marijuana charges, assault, domestic violence, weapons violations, theft-related offenses (burglary, robbery), prostitution, and solicitation, as well as record expungement.
Sukumar earned his Juris Doctor from Emory University School of Law and his Bachelor's degree with honors from George Washington University. He is admitted to the Bar of the District of Columbia.
Sukumar previously worked at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (trial division), handling sexual assault, drug, and gun cases, as well as the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, the Georgia Capital Defender, and the Clark County Public Defender's Office Murder Division in Las Vegas, Nevada. He volunteers as a D.C. Bar Landlord Tenant Pro Bono attorney. His honors include selection to the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40, a 10/10 Avvo rating, and Super Lawyer designation.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Price Benowitz Accident Injury Lawyers, LLP
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Price Benowitz, with co-counsel Ben Crump, filed a $25 million wrongful death suit for the father of Rolin Hill, who died in 2024 after Virginia Beach jail deputies restrained and beat him during a mental health crisis.
A large tree fell onto a moving car on Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park and trapped the driver, Marcelino Cruz Leiva. He sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, alleging the National Park Service should have found and removed the decayed tree. After a four-day bench trial in December 2023, Judge Amit Mehta entered judgment for Cruz Leiva on his negligence claim in the sum of $5 million on May 7, 2024.
A federal judge held the United States could be sued under the Federal Tort Claims Act for a tree limb that fell on pedestrian Mary Lou Walen during Hurricane Sandy, rejecting the government's sovereign-immunity defense and later denying summary judgment.
Price Benowitz brought a federal civil rights and wrongful death suit after Alonzo Smith, 27, died in 2015 while special police officers restrained him face down at a Southeast Washington apartment complex.
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