Attorney Hobie Crystle
Hobie Crystle was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Lancaster.  Mr. Crystle graduated from John Piersol McCaskey High School.  He then attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin American Studies and attained fluency in Spanish.

 After graduating in 1985, Mr. Crystle worked as a criminal investigator for the Superior Court in Washington, D. C.  Mr. Crystle enrolled in the Dickinson School of Law in 1989 and graduated in 1992.  At Dickinson, he co-founded the Public Interest Law Fund, a group dedicated to providing debt relief for students and young lawyers working in the public interest.  During that time he clerked for the Public Defenders' Offices in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, the Manhattan Office of the New York Legal Aid Society and the Defender's Association of Philadelphia.

Upon graduation, Mr. Crystle moved to Philadelphia where he practiced with the Defender's Association until 1996 when he returned to Lancaster.  After a year and a half in the Public Defender's Office in Lancaster County, Mr. Crystle opened the Law Office of Hobie Crystle.  That office has grown into the current firm of Crystle, Allen & Braught.

Mr. Crystle has extensive jury trial experience in both Lancaster and Philadelphia and is a member of both the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys and National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.