Attorney Patrykus is a 1980 honors graduate of the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, and a 1984 graduate of Marquette Law School. From 1984 to 1992 he served as an Assistant State Public Defender in Milwaukee Trial Office, where he conducted numerous homicide trials. One such trial, State v. Wirth, lasted seven weeks. A later homicide trial, State v. Felton, was featured on Court TV. In 1994, he represented Christopher Scarver, for the murder of Jeffrey Dahmer. He is a graduate of the National College of Criminal Defense Trial Institute at Mercer Law School in Macon, Georgia.
