Relief from Sex Offender Registration Granted
We persuaded the SORB to grant relief from registration to our client, who had been previously required to register as a Level 1 for ten years based on a conviction of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, on grounds that he currently poses no cognizable risk of reoffense.
No Conviction; Pretrial Probation
We persuaded the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office and the Cambridge District Court to dismiss one of our client’s counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, and to resolve two other such counts by pretrial probation. There was no conviction, our client made no admission, and all counts will be dismissed at the end of 2021. […]
Title IX University Discipline Charges Dismissed
Our client was accused of violation of a university’s sexual harassment policy. Following an investigation, all Title IX disciplinary charges were dropped.
University Disciplinary Charges Averted
Our client was accused of violating a university No Contact Order. Following our submission of documentary materials, the university decided not to issue formal disciplinary charges.
Acquittal in Federal Jury Trial
Our client, along with two co-defendants, was indicted on highly-publicized federal wire fraud and conspiracy charges. Through a three-week-long jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, we systematically challenged the government’s evidence and won an acquittal on all charges after less than 5 hours of deliberations.
Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Conference
Jamie Sultan spoke about ineffective assistance of counsel at the Post-Conviction Remedies Conference in Boston.
Level One Sex Offender Classification Decision
Our client, who was previously convicted in federal court of possession of child pornography, went before the Sex Offender Registry Board for his preliminary classification. We presented a persuasive package to the SORB, which resulted in the SORB granting our client a Level One classification at the preliminary phase without even needing an evidentiary hearing. […]
Client Resentenced to Time Served
Our client was serving a 12 year federal sentence as a career offender because of prior convictions in Florida for burglary. We argued in a Motion to Vacate, Set Aside, or Correct Sentence by a Person in Federal Custody that our client can no longer be considered a career offender because his prior convictions for […]
Client Resentenced to Time Served
After being convicted by a jury, our client was sentenced by the federal district judge on a drug count to a doubled-mandatory minimum term of 20 years. The mandatory minimum was doubled because our client had an old predicate Massachusetts state drug conviction. On an amended habeas petition, we convinced the court that our client’s […]
Relief from Sex Offender Registration Granted
Our client was convicted of a sex offense many years ago and had been repeatedly advised by the Sex Offender Registry Board that he would have to register for life. We reviewed the original pleadings, discovered that the offense did not actually require lifetime registration, and convinced the SORB that that our client was entitled […]