If you have been arrested for a crime, the fact is you need not prove anything. The most fundamental principle of our criminal justice system is that a person who is accused of committing a crime is presumed innocent. This presumption stays with the accused throughout the entire case and only leaves them if they
There are many differences between defending a Federal Drug Trafficking crime, as opposed to a New York State Drug crime. The most important being that the federal law makes no distinction between the crimes of sale or possession. Any defendant charged as part of a federal drug trafficking conspiracy falls under the same section of
If someone is arrested and charged with possession of crack cocaine, they will be charged with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance. The level of the offense depends on how much of the drug they are accused of possessing. Possession of less than 500 milligrams will be charged as a misdemeanor in New York. One