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Jury Trial over shooting in self-defense at post office ends in mistrial
May 15th, 2023
Last week, Ted Lothstein was up in Grafton County Superior Court for a jury trial that was supposed to last four days – but ended unexpectedly with a mistrial on the second day. Ethical rules prohibit lawyers from making public statements about…
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MA Board recommends disbarment of prosecutor linked to lab scandal
July 20th, 2022
Prosecutor Works to Cover-Up Wrongdoing Disgraced forensic lab chemist Sonja Farak used the seized drug evidence herself, and then fabricated test results that were used in criminal prosecutions to convict and incarcerate scores of people. Thousands…
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All 3 of our lawyers published in the Bar News last month
February 15th, 2022
Last month, all 3 of the firm’s lawyers co-authored an article in the NH Bar News about defending alleged domestic violence cases. The article is available online, and appeared in the print edition of the Bar News which is mailed to every singl…
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4th Consecutive Jury Trial Not Guilty on Domestic Violence Charges
July 28th, 2021
Last week, on July 23, 2021, Richard Guerriero won a big victory for his client. After a trial in which both accuser and the accused took the stand, the jury found the accused NOT guilty of False Imprisonment, and NOT guilty of Simple Assault, the tw…
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Mass. Appeals Ct Suppresses Evidence from Pretextual Vehicle Stop
February 25th, 2021
In Commonwealth v. Lek, the Massachusetts Appeals Court issued a major decision earlier this month that curtails the ability of the police to make pretextual stops, find a reason to arrest the driver, and then search his car. Surprise! – Pretex…
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2020- Year in Review for the Criminal Justice System
January 24th, 2021
The January 20, 2021 issue of the New Hampshire Bar News printed excerpts from an article that Kaylee Doty and I wrote, “The Criminal Justice System in 2020 – A Year Like No Other”. You can read the excerpted article in the newspape…
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Landmark Racial Profiling Decision from MA Supreme Judicial Court
September 18th, 2020
Yesterday, September 17, 2020, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (highest court in MA) released a landmark decision that enables victims of racial profiling to hold police officers accountable in court by suppressing evidence obtained as a res…
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Sentence Reduction Under 3582c1A for Extraordinary and Compelling Reasons
November 18th, 2019
Contributor: Richard Guerriero
U.S. v. Urkevich order, 03-cr-00037, Nebraska District Court, link to the order here: Urkevick order c1A
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1st Degree Assault Jury Trial in the News
December 14th, 2018
Ted Lothstein’s role defending a Nashua man charged with First Degree Assault in a jury trial this week has been covered twice this week by the Nashua Telegraph. (The defense team, contrary to the article, did not include anybody named “D…
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Our victory profiled in the New Republic magazine
December 5th, 2018
The Victory on Appeal In October, I posted about our victory on appeal in the Afshar case, based on the misconduct of a biased juror. After a therapist was convicted by juror of assaulting a young patient in his office, he hired our firm, we conducte…
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