Minnesota Drug Charge Defense Lawyer

What happens when the police are at your door with a warrant to search your home? What happens when they pull you over and smell pot? Why did they target you? Who gave the police information that led to the warrant, stop or detention? Was it an anonymous tip? Was it based upon probable cause? Is that search warrant legal? Was the warrantless search unlawful. What are my rights? What should I do?

Indeed, your car may have been stopped and searched during a routine traffic stop. You may have been caught in a sting operation. Or mistaken for someone else. Bottom line, did the police have the right to search? That is always the first question.

Whatever the circumstances of your case, you should have an experienced attorney to fight for your freedom and your reputation in the face of drug charges. You don't want to take this one sitting down. No sir!

Your Constitutional Rights

In every drug charge case, there is a point where the police begin to focus on the accused. At that point, your rights must be protected. The Constitution protects you against unreasonable searches and seizures. The Constitution also requires that warrants shall only issue upon probable cause.

What is an unreasonable search or seizure? What is probable cause?

The answers to those questions lie in thousands upon thousands of court cases that have defined and interpreted the scope and limits of police authority to search, seize, and to arrest. The law in these areas is filled with subtlety and nuance.

I have practiced in the area of criminal law for 20 years. I know what is needed to have a warrant declared illegal, or to have a search or a seizure declared void. You suppress the evidence, generally, you win the case. That is important, because in many cases the best defense is to get the court to throw out the evidence before trial.

Comprehensive Drug Charge Defense

The charges against you may involve any number of specific activities, including:

• cultivation operations (growing your own)
• drug possession
• drug trafficking
• forging prescriptions

These may involve any controlled substance, including:

• marijuana
  
• cocaine / crack
  
• heroin
  
• ecstasy
  
• methamphetamine / ice
  
• prescription drugs (OxyContin, Percodan, Percocet)

I have the experience to mount an aggressive and effective defense, to target and suppress the seizure itself. I generally chose not to represent folks who would consider becoming informants and trading their misery for someone else's.

Accordingly, I try to maximize my client's defenses by focusing with precision on the facts necessary to win. When you don't have the facts, one might seek to win the sentencing. For example, acknowledging you have a problem by taking the steps to deal with it, will always have a positive impact on the court's decision in your case.