Tim Garrison

Federal Prosecution

• In first fiscal year as U.S. Attorney, Western District of Missouri, took lead among 94 districts in prosecution of firearms crime (2nd), violent crime (6th) and crime against children (6th). Increased number of prosecutions of large-scale drug traffickers by 226 percent.
• As U.S. Attorney, Western District of Missouri, led Operation LeGend, a successful effort deploying hundreds of federal law enforcement agents to support Kansas City Police Department, prompting expansion to eight other cities as DOJ's most significant law enforcement effort. Agents arrested 6,000 violent criminals, including nearly 500 for homicide, and seized more than 2,600 illegal guns; a half ton of heroin, methamphetamine, fentanyl, and cocaine; and $11 million in illicit proceeds.
• As U.S. Attorney, Western District of Missouri, served on Advisory Subcommittees on Terrorism and National Security, Violent and Organized Crime, and the Marijuana Working Group, as well as Chairing Midwest High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Executive Board.
• As Assistant U.S. Attorney and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, Western District of Missouri, litigated 12 federal jury trials; as lead attorney, earned guilty verdicts on every count submitted to a jury; litigated hundreds of contested hearings before U.S. Magistrate and District Court judges; and briefed twelve and successfully argued five of six appeals before Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

U.S. Marine Corps & Military Counsel

• As Associate Deputy General Counsel, International Affairs, Department of Defense Office of General Counsel, advises DOD on planning and conduct of military operations, including the law of armed conflict and war crimes, war powers, coalition relations and assistance, and activities of U.S. forces under international law and relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions; arms control negotiations, implementation, and non-proliferation; status of forces agreements; cooperative research and development programs; international litigation; law of outer space; and multilateral agreements.
• As Deputy Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, advised Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Director and members of the Joint Staff on all matters, including operational law, international law, law of armed conflict, and U.S. law; regularly interacted with the principal legal advisors of the National Security Staff, Department of State, Department of Justice, Director of National Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, combatant commands, military departments, and defense agencies.
• As Military Justice Attorney, Judge Advocate Division, Headquarters Marine Corps, reviewed proposed presidential executive orders and legislative changes to the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
• As Military Justice Attorney, developed training programs, information papers, memoranda, and practice advisories on new or uncommon issues in military justice matters.
• As Military Justice Attorney, assisted the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, and the Staff Judge Advocate to the Commandant of the Marine Corps in preparing for testimony before congressional armed services committees on military criminal justice matters.
• As Chief of Operational Law, International Security Assistance Force, Regional Command (Southwest), Helmand Province, Afghanistan, provided operational law advice and support to commanding general and subordinate commands of a multi-national force in Afghanistan's most volatile province.
• As Chief of Operational Law trained thousands of coalition troops in the Law of Armed Conflict and Rules of Engagement.
• As Chief of Operational Law, conducted mounted and dismounted patrols to local villages to assess Taliban operations and interviewed local nationals regarding the 2014 Afghan presidential election.
• As Chief of Operational Law, supervised detention operations and inspections by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
• As Deputy Staff Judge Advocate, advised commanding general, subordinate commanders, and staff on matters of criminal justice, officer misconduct, civil law, administrative law, fiscal law, government contracting, and international and operational law, including rules of engagement and status of forces agreements.
• As Regional Judge Advocate, advised commanders on issues such as discipline and investigations.
• As Trial Counsel, Marine Forces Central Command, prosecuted a series of cases with presidential and congressional oversight and international media scrutiny alleging crimes by U.S. personnel in Iraq, including 25 homicides, conspiracy, kidnapping, and obstruction.
• As Trial Counsel, deployed to Anbar Province, Iraq, to investigate and interview surviving witnesses.