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Focused on the cases that matter most.
Criminal charges can affect your freedom, your career, your family and your future. A strong defense begins with a careful examination of the facts, the evidence and the law.
Felony Defense
Charges carrying state prison exposure, indicted cases, and matters that move from District Court to Superior Court.
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Drug Offenses
Possession, distribution, and trafficking cases — where the search, the lab, and the informant are usually the case.
Homicide
The most serious cases the Commonwealth brings — handled from both sides of the courtroom across this career.
Violent Crimes
Cases where the Commonwealth alleges force or the threat of force, and where self-defense and identification often matter most.
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Assault & Battery
From simple assault and battery through aggravated charges and cases involving dangerous weapons.
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Domestic Violence
Charges the Commonwealth prosecutes whether or not the complainant wants to proceed, alongside 209A orders.
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Sex Offenses
Allegations carrying registration consequences and lifelong collateral effects that demand careful, early defense work.
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OUI / Operating Under the Influence
First offense through subsequent offense, breath test and refusal cases, and the separate RMV consequences that run on their own clock.
Firearms Offenses
Unlicensed carrying, storage, and possession charges, plus the licensing consequences that follow a criminal case.
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White Collar / Financial Crimes
Larceny, fraud, and financial allegations built on documents, records, and long investigative timelines.
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Record Sealing
Clearing a Massachusetts record once you are eligible — administrative sealing through the Commissioner of Probation, and judicial sealing for cases that ended without a conviction.
Criminal Investigations
Representation before charges issue — when a client is contacted by police, served a target letter, or given a clerk-magistrate hearing notice.
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Guides to the process
Plain-language explanations of how Massachusetts criminal procedure actually works, written with citations to the statutes and decisions they rest on.
What happens after an arrest in Massachusetts
Arraignment, bail, dangerousness hearings, and the clerk-magistrate hearing that can end a case before it starts.
How Massachusetts murder and manslaughter charges work
The degrees, felony-murder after Commonwealth v. Brown, sentencing and parole, and the automatic appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court.
How a Massachusetts criminal case moves from charge to appeal
What the prosecutor must disclose, how motions to suppress work under article 14, the speedy trial clock, jury size, and appeal deadlines.
What a continuance without a finding really means
What you admit to, what happens when you complete it, and why it still counts as a conviction for immigration and for counting prior OUIs.
Sealing a Massachusetts criminal record
Waiting periods, how an acquittal differs from a dismissal, and the timing detail that gets most applications turned away.
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