Federal Drug Conspiracy

Yesterday, a federal district court judge in Gainesville, Georgia sentenced our client to three years of probation.  Our client was accused of being involved in a large marijuana grow house conspiracy and was originally facing a five-year mandatory minimum sentence in prison. Our firm was able to convince federal prosecutors to remove the stiff mandatory…

Based on a recent federal district court decision, “geofence search warrants” for Google location data are subject to being challenged as an unconstitutional violation of privacy. The judge in that case refused to grant the warrant because it was too broad and violated the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable government searches and seizures. What is…

On April 17, 2019, the DOJ announced in a press release that the government is bringing federal criminal charges against 60 individuals, including 31 doctors, 7 pharmacists, 8 nurse practitioners, and several other licensed medical professionals, based on allegations that these healthcare providers were unlawfully distributing prescription opioid medication and committing healthcare fraud. The charges…

The AJC reported today that forty-four people have been arrested and charged with participating in the illegal distribution of opioids across the metro Atlanta area. The arrests are linked to the ongoing criminal case of Dr. Joe Burton, who was a renowned medical examiner for several metro Atlanta counties before being charged in 2017 for…

The past decade has seen state after state legalize marijuana for medical and recreational purposes, along with the emergence of a multi-billion-dollar industry for growing and selling it. Various banks and other businesses have also been servicing the “legal” marijuana market in those states where marijuana is legal for medicinal and recreational uses. But that…