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Criminal Defense
Outcome
4 yrs
Conviction overturned on appeal
A four-year sentence was vacated after we showed the trial court had admitted evidence it should have excluded.
Practice
Criminal Defense
Year
2024
Court
Appellate Division, First Department
Duration
8 months
Lead attorney
Marcus Hale
01 · The challenge
A conviction built on the wrong evidence
Our client was convicted after a trial at which the jury heard a statement taken without proper warnings.
He came to us after sentencing, facing four years in custody.
Sentence
4 years
Issue
Statement taken without warnings
Court
Appellate Division
02 · Our approach
Back to the record
Appeals are won on the trial record, so we started there.
01
Months 1–2
Read every page
We reviewed 2,400 pages of transcript and found the suppression ruling was never properly argued.
02
Months 3–5
The brief
Our brief set out why the statement should never have reached the jury.
03
Months 6–8
Argument
We argued the appeal and moved for release pending decision.
03 · The outcome
Conviction vacated
The Appellate Division vacated the conviction and ordered a new trial. The prosecution declined to retry the case.
4
Years of custody avoided
2,400
Pages of transcript reviewed
8
Months to decision
In their words
“Marcus read every page of my trial. Nobody had done that before.”
Client
Private client · name withheld
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