WICHITA – The Wichita Bar Association has honored criminal defense attorney Dan Monnat with its 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is given to a member whose sustained superior performance and accomplishments have brought credit and recognition to the profession. Notably, the recipient must have demonstrated exemplary ethical standards and high personal values….
For almost 50 years, Dan Monnat has been fighting in courtrooms for unpopular people, companies, and causes….
Take a listen as Dan Monnat joins Wichita Business Journal Editor Kirk Seminoff for the latest edition of the WBJ’s Biz Talk podcast. Enjoy the lively discussion as Dan shares his thoughts on becoming a winning criminal defense attorney, sharing your fears with the jury, and finding the “smoking gun” in the case, as well as his upcoming Lifetime Achievement Award from the Wichita Bar Association. Please note content may only be available to subscribers.
Manhattan – Wichita criminal defense attorney Dan Monnat was honored with the Kansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Lifetime Achievement Award at the organization’s annual meeting in Manhattan. Monnat, who has been a member of KACDL since its inception in 1989 and served as president from 1992-1995, has taught numerous CLE seminars for the organization on such topics as illegal search and seizure, the frailties of narcotics drug detection dogs, and the defense of accusations of child sex crimes….
Prosecutors have charged 25-year-old Michael Tejeda with first-degree murder in the commission of a felony in the death of his one-year-old daughter due to gunfire. Criminal defense attorney Dan Monnat explains to KAKE News that the charge against the girl’s father is different from a typical murder charge. “In a felony murder situation, the need to prove a specific mental state is supplanted by evidence that the accused was committing, attempting to commit, or fleeing from an inherently dangerous felony….”
The Champion Magazine – The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers has published Dan Monnat and Gina Wehby’s article on “The Prosecutor’s Toxic Objection.”
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A Sedgwick County Sheriff’s detective allegedly mishandled cases in the Exploited and Missing Children and Internet Crimes Against Children units from 2019 to 2024. Defense attorney Dan Monnat explains what this might mean for child sex abuse or child abuse handled by that detective: “The two worst extremes from that are, one, real child predators or child abusers go uncharged and two, innocent people become wrongfully accused.” “The witnesses become harder and hard to find, and their memories become harder and harder to rely on….”
WICHITA – Dan Monnat has been recognized again on the Top 100 List of Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers for 2024. This is Monnat’s 19th year to be named to this prestigious list…
A federal judge in Kansas has tossed out a machine gun possession charge and questioned if bans on the weapons violate the Second Amendment. Defense attorney Dan Monnat tells KWCH TV that others charged with possession will try to use this ruling to their benefit. “I presume everybody accused of possessing machine guns will use this case as precedent to contend that the cases can’t be prosecuted….”
AUGUSTA, Kan. – Will two Augusta teens arrested in connection to the murder of a 93-year-old woman be tried as adults? Wichita attorney Dan Monnat tells KWCH TV that prosecutors will have to jump through a lot of hoops before that can happen, and a judge will have to find that the community will be better served by treating a child as an adult….
