Articles Posted in Pre-Trial Probation

At the time of this incident our client was a college student finishing his senior year. He had a well-documented mental health history that he had managed quite well for several years. As commencement neared the man took an opportunity to celebrate with a group of his classmates and a well known nightclub. He ingested…

In the fall of 2023 we were hired to represent four men implicated in the Cambridge Massachusetts brothel scandal. What started as a routine sexual conduct for a fee case became a protracted litigation that ended up in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. After nearly two years of litigation pertaining to the confidentiality of clerk…

Our client is a tenured college professor known nationally for engineering innovations. In April of this year police were called to his home for a report of a domestic assault involving the defendant and his wife. Notwithstanding conflicting versions of the event, our client was arrested and charged with domestic assault and battery under G.L.…

A few months ago this client resolved her case with a general continuance. She had been charged with negligent operation of a motor vehicle, G.L. c. 90 section 24(2)(a), failure to stop for a police officer, G.L. c. 90 section 25 and failure to provide identification under G.L. c. 90 section 25. Our office was…

On August 30, 2022 police in a Boston suburb received a call for a disturbance in a parking lot. When they arrived they learned that the defendant, a non-citizen, was acting irrationally, challenging everyone in the parking lot to a fight. She was chasing patrons, throwing objects at their cars and threatening everybody in the…

Nearly a year and one half ago our client was charged with malicious destruction to a motor vehicle under G.L. c. 266 section 28A. The client suffers from a severe mental illness that has resulted in several criminal complaints spanning four Massachusetts counties. Many of his cases have recently been resolved. None of the cases…

In December of 2020 a woman called 911 about a past domestic assault and battery. A detective went to her house to interview her about the incident. The woman related that nearly eight weeks earlier she and her husband got into a verbal dispute that turned physical. While arguing about the proposal of a divorce…

Over a year ago our client was charged with domestic assault and battery under G.L. c. 265 section 13M. Our office was able to get him pretrial probation under G.L. c. 276 section 87. The man successfully completed the probationary period and the case was dismissed. Fearing that prospective employers would be able to access…

In August of 2021 police got a call for two women involved in a fist fight. One of the women told the officers that after finishing work she was hit in the face by the other woman. The officers were told that the initiator believed that her boyfriend, the defendant, was sexually involved with this…

Several months ago we represented a nurse charged with improper storage of firearms under G.L. c. 140 section 131L. We resolved the case by way of pretrial probation for one year under G.L. c. 276 section 87. Our client requested that we try to terminate the probation early. We were able to do so. Pretrial…