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Our Firm Recovered Over $1 Million Worth of Seized Property for Our Clients in 2024

December 30, 2024
As the new year approaches, we look back over the past year with confidence that our firm has fought hard for our clients and obtained the best results possible in their cases. That includes our firm’s forfeiture cases, where the State has seized a person or a company’s property and takes the property owner to […]

Our Firm Gets Charges Dismissed for Client Charged with Trafficking 300 Pounds of Marijuana

December 20, 2024
A picture of the seized hemp products posted on the Tifton Police Department’s Facebook Page Closing out 2024 on a high note, our firm recently secured the dismissal of criminal charges against our client, an innocent truck driver who was arrested and charged with marijuana trafficking based on his transportation of legal hemp products. The State […]

Our Firm Obtains TIME SERVED Sentence for Client Convicted of Federal Cocaine Trafficking Conspiracy

October 17, 2024
This week, our firm pulled off a rare victory–we helped our client obtain a sentence of “time served” in a federal criminal case involving an interstate drug trafficking conspiracy. This was the best possible outcome for our client after he was indicted on federal charges that carried a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison. […]

Our Firm Secures Time Served Sentence for Restaurant Owner Falsely Charged with Labor Trafficking and Alien Smuggling

September 4, 2024
Estela Gonzalez (middle) with Paralegal Emily Brooks and Attorney Tom Church For the past year and a half, our firm has been part of a joint defense team representing Efrain and Estela Gonzalez, the husband-and-wife owners of a popular Mexican restaurant, Sabor a Mexico, who were falsely accused of labor trafficking, alien smuggling, and other offenses […]

Our Firm Wins Forfeiture Appeal, Court Orders State to Return $150K+ and Other Seized Property

August 15, 2024
This week, the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled in favor of our client and his wife who had over $150,000 seized from their business and bank accounts, as well as a new truck, trailer, and other equipment. The State tried to unsuccessfully appeal the trial court’s order granting our motion to dismiss the State’s forfeiture […]

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