Ask IRWIN About Massachusetts Narcotics Charges and Defenses
Arrested for Drugs in Boston?
If you have been charged with a drug crime in Boston, or if you are under investigation for drugs, you need a criminal defense attorney like the aggressive criminal lawyers from the Massachusetts Criminal Defense Group.
Whenever police officers or law enforcement takes an action without an arrest or search warrant, they must be able to justify that action under the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights or the United States constitutions. A person accused of a crime can challenge any arrest, confession or seizure of evidence in a Motion to Suppress hearing.
Whether you face charges for drug possession, possession with the intent to distribute, or even drug trafficking — for cocaine, heroin, or for prescription drugs such as Vicodin or OxyContin, steroids, or performance enhancing drugs — our attorneys can help. We can defend you in some of the following circumstances:
Search Warrants: If officers came and broke your doors, tore up your house, and took your property, it doesn't mean that the search warrant or search was legal. Oftentimes, law enforcement make lies and put incorrect information into an affidavit presented to the court in order to get the warrant. Once this is shown to a court in defending you, the evidence can be suppressed and the case then dismissed.
Wiretaps: The regulations allowing for wiretaps are extremely stringent. If police do not follow strict procedures, any illegal wiretap evidence may be considered inadmissible in court, resulting in your charges being dropped.
Snitches and Jail Informers: People who work with narcotics officers and law enforcement (called "informants") are often pressured by police to give up the names of other people involved in drugs. Sometimes these jail informers or snitches provide tips or testimony in order to seek a lighter sentence. The testimony isn't always true. If you think an informant is why you were targeted and arrested, we could file a Motion to Suppress if the police acted improperly.
Body wires: The police need a warrant signed by a judge to audio record a conversation without the consent of both parties. If you were taped or recorded without your consent, we may be able to bring a motion before the court to have the evidence suppressed if investigators did this improperly.
Illegal search and seizure: Stopped in your car without probable cause? We can help. There are strict laws protecting your rights.
Massachusetts drug possession laws, drug trafficking crimes, and illegal narcotic charges are primarily in MGL chapter 94.
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