At a recent clerk magistrate hearing, Nelson Lovins successfully blocked the issuance of a criminal complaint on behalf of a client suspected of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

Brett Lovins secured a victory on behalf of his client who had been charged with reckless operation of a motor vehicle. After an evidentiary hearing which included the cross-examination of the police officer who provided a witness identification of Brett’s client, Brett successfully argued that the witness identification should be suppressed. Brett’s subsequent motion to dismiss the charges was granted.

On the day of trial, Brett Lovins negotiated a resolution to his client’s theft charges that avoided a conviction and allowed his client to maintain a clean record. His client had allegedly confessed to stealing almost $20,000 from his employer. Brett was prepared to take the case to trial with expert testimony about coercive investigative tactics that can produce unreliable and false confessions.

At a clerk magistrate show cause hearing, Brett Lovins persuaded a clerk-magistrate to not issue a formal complaint or charge against his client who was accused of assault and battery after an incident at a local casino. The dismissal allowed his client to preserve her clean record.

Brett Lovins convinced the Commonwealth to drop the charges against his client who had been accused of shoplifting. He was able to provide evidence of his client’s untreated mental illness which provided a non-criminal explanation for her allegedly suspicious conduct.

After a full evidentiary hearing, Brett Lovins persuaded a court to suppress fentanyl discovered during the inventory search of a car belonging to his client’s partner. The search failed to comply with the state police’s motor vehicle inventory search policy. Without this key drug evidence, the charges against his client were subsequently dismissed.

Brett Lovins recently negotiated a favorable result for his client who was not a United States citizen. He was able to convince the Commonwealth to reduce charges from the felony of assault with a dangerous weapon to misdemeanor assault. The result allowed him to avoid certain immigration consequences associated with a violent felony.

Brett Lovins recently was able to negotiate a favorable resolution for his client charged with multiple count of open and gross lewdness, which had been captured on video in a retail establishment. The result permitted the client to avoid a criminal sex offense conviction and the collateral consequence of registering as a sex offender.