Drug offense defense
Drug cases are built on stop, search, seizure, and cooperation. Each of those is a place where the government can be wrong.
Federal drug prosecutions are driven by quantity, and quantity is often established through testimony rather than through anything seized. Where the government's numbers come from cooperating witnesses, the defense is entitled to test how those numbers were derived and whether they can be attributed to this defendant at all.
Mandatory minimum sentences mean that in federal court the difference between one quantity threshold and the next can be five or ten years. That makes the sentencing phase of these cases as important as the guilt phase, and sometimes more so.
In Georgia state cases the recurring issues are the legality of the traffic stop, the scope of any consent to search, the reliability of a dog alert, and the chain of custody of anything seized. A search that exceeded its lawful scope can remove the evidence from the case entirely, which frequently ends it.
The firm has handled drug cases from simple possession through large multi-defendant trafficking conspiracies, in state and federal court, and has litigated both the suppression motions and the sentencing disputes that decide what these cases actually cost a client.