Acquittals At Trial

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Our client was charged with first-degree murder and related offenses arising out of a shooting which resulted in the death of one person and the serious injury of another. Before we represented the client, he was convicted of first-degree murder and related offenses. We represented the client on direct appeal and persuaded the Supreme Judicial Court to reverse all of the conviction and remand the case for a new trial. At the retrial, we succeeded in persuading the jury to find our client not guilty on all counts.

Our client was charged with first-degree murder and related firearm offenses. On retrial after the first trial ended in a hung jury, we were able to successfully challenge the Commonwealth’s evidence, and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty on all charges after only six hours of deliberations.

Our client was charged with first-degree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm.  The Commonwealth claimed that our client shot and killed a man in the course of an attempted armed robbery. At trial, we challenged the prosecution’s witnesses as unreliable and its investigation as sloppy and biased.  The jury acquitted our client on all charges.

The Attorney General’s Office charged our client with conspiracy to commit procurement fraud and conspiracy to obtain an unwarranted privilege. Through a jury trial that lasted over a month, we successfully and vigorously challenged the evidence against our client.  After six days of deliberation, the jury exonerated our client of all charges.

Our client helped manage a regional family business. He and other family members were charged with multiple counts of federal mail fraud. Following a jury trial, all three defendants were acquitted on all counts.

Our client was charged with distribution of cocaine out of his home in Boston. Following a jury trial in Suffolk Superior Court, he was found not guilty of all charges.

Our client was charged in a multi-defendant federal indictment with murder in aid of racketeering. After a jury trial, he was acquitted.