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2009
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CRIMINAL CASES
Our MA law firm specializes in criminal law
cases after conviction. We handle appeals, motions for a new trial, motions to revise and revoke sentences, guilty
plea withdrawals, parole hearings, commutation petitions, and federal habeas petitions.
Attorney Mary T. Rogers won a United States Supreme
Court case with her co-counsel Professor Jeffrey L. Fisher of Stanford Law School on June 25, 2009. The case,
Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, has widespread application to all criminal cases throughout the U.S. The Court
ruled that under the Sixth Amendment all defendants have the right to confront and cross-examine forensic crime analysts.
The government cannot rely on the forensic lab report in place of live testimony. Now, the government must
call the live witness to the stand. The Washington Post Newspaper reported that "This is the biggest
case for the defense since Miranda." The case has caused havoc throughout the country in hundreds
of thousands of criminal cases. It is being used beneficially every day in nearly every courthouse throughout
the U.S. Some cases have been dismissed, in others defendants have been offered better plea bargains, and for those
who go to trial it protects the defendants' right to a fair trial. Many defendants have had their cases reversed
on appeal, because of it.
If you want a lawyer who will fight for your constitutional rights, you want Attorney
Rogers to defend you. It does not matter if your case is as small as drug possession or as serious as murder. She
will zealously represent you and pursue every avenue. She will even take your case to the U.S. Supreme Court and
try to change the law when appropriate as she did for Luis Melendez-Diaz and she succeeded. On February 3, 2010, Mr.
Melendez-Diaz's convictions were reversed and vacated.
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If you or someone you know was convicted of a crime, you need
to speak to a lawyer about appealing the case immediately. If it is a new conviction in the MA state court you only
have 30 days to file a timely notice of an appeal, so call today.
If it is an older case, we may still be able to help you. If your case has never been appealed, we will check to
see if it can be filed late. A motion for a new trial can be filed at any time in MA state court no matter how
old the case is.
We handle post-conviction criminal cases at all
levels of state and federal court in MA and the United States Supreme Court. We have been in business since 1990.
WRONGFUL CONVICTION CIVIL CASES
We also handle civil wrongful conviction MA cases under
a new statute that allows innocent people convicted of serious crimes to seek compensation for their wrongful convictions.
Please note: If you are not in MA, you need to check with lawyers in your own state about your case. There are
time limits, so don't delay.
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