John Trevena is a lawyer from Largo Florida and he is the owner and principal attorney at the firm Trevena, Pontrello & Associates. Trevena has been the lead criminal defense lawyer on several high-profile cases, including the Michael Drejka "Stand Your Ground" case.
Legal practice
Trevena was an Assistant State Attorney from 1985 to 1987. He was admitted to the State Bar of Florida and started his own practice in 1987. In 2015 he became a partner at the firm Trevena, Pontrello & Associates.
High profile cases
2009 Represented Ed Graziano. In 2010 Ed Graziano's son John Graziano was injured in a crash with Nick Hogan Bollea, son of wrestling star Terry Bollea. Graziano pleaded no contest to charge of solicitation to commit the murder of his wife in 2011 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
2010 Jennifer Mee "Hiccup girl" Charged with murder. Mee was convicted of first-degree murder, and she was sentenced to life without parole.
2018 John Jonchuck He was convicted of first-degree murder for dropping his daughter off a St. Petersburg bridge in 2015 and sentenced to life in prison.
2019 Michael Drejka in a "Stand Your Ground" case. Drejka was convicted of manslaughter on August 23, 2019, and was sentenced to imprisonment for 20 years on October 10, 2019.
Trevena divorced in 2019. Shortly after the divorce Trevena was arrested for domestic violence on March 11, 2019. His ex-wife Meredith recorded him with her cell phone. Trevena was jailed after the incident. Prosecutors dropped the domestic battery case against Trevena on April 6, 2019. Trevena alleged that his wife Meredith Trevena was a drug user. The neighbors of John and Meredith Trevena filed a lawsuit against Trevena in May 2019 alleging terrible odors emanating from the Trevena property. In the lawsuit the neighbors stated: "Based upon the sworn statements of John Trevena, these sickening odors are the result of the use of methamphetamine and heroin and other illicit drugs." The neighbors eventually dropped the suit. Trevena went to court claiming that a former employee moved into the Trevena home and got his wife addicted to drugs. He also claimed that the former employee began stealing things from the home and forging checks from Trevena's law firm account. Trevena went to court to seek a protective order from the former employee and her boyfriend. Trevena's wife, Meredith Lynn Recio and the boyfriend of the former Trevena employee broke into the Trevena law firm. They stole a check which they forged and cashed for $8,500 dollars. Trevena told police that they also stole a.44 caliber handgun. Tevena's wife and her friend were booked into the Pinellas County jail.
