Dudley, Massachusetts Drug Trafficking Lawyer

If you have ever been arrested for a drug trafficking in Dudley, you will want to consider hiring a drug trafficking attorney who has experience dealing with Massachusetts court system for drug trafficking charges. Specifically, you will need a confident trial lawyer who is able to communicate your theory of defense to the judge or jury.

Trafficking in narcotics involves distribution of a large quantity of narcotics.

Defenses to Drug Trafficking in Dudley, Massachusetts

It is often the case that the primary way to attack a drug trafficking charge is to attack the legal basis of the seizure of the drugs. There are 3 ways generally to attack a seizure of drugs in a drug case:

1. Challenge the basis for the police to stop your car; order you from the car and to search your vehicle;
2. Contest any search warrant to search your home based on a lack of probable cause;
3. Challenge any search of your person under the Constitution.

Common Defenses:

• Compulsion, Duress/Coercion – the Defendant was under unlawful threat of death or serious bodily injury forcing him to violate the laws.
  • The defendant must (1) receive an immediate or imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury; (2) have a reasonable fear that the threat will be carried out; and (3) there was no reasonable opportunity for the defendant to escape the threatened harm except by committing the criminal act.
• Necessity – the Pressure of the circumstances causes the defendant to violate criminal law in order to avoid a greater harm that would have resulted if he complied with the law
• Lack of Knowledge – You may be able to show that you did not know that the drugs were in your vehicle or wherever they were found.
• Entrapment – Government inducement of criminality to one who was not predisposed to the crime. In drug trafficking the government may induce the defendant to sell drugs in a particular amount in order to trigger a mandatory minimum sentence
• Mitigation- Often times people become victims of drug traffickers and forced to transport illegal drugs. You could be able to mitigate your role in the transportation of the drugs.
• Motion to Suppress/Throw Out Evidence – You can argue that the police did not have a warrant or consent to conduct a search and seizure. As a result, we may be able to get the evidence suppressed.

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