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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Late last week, Georgia’s Department of Agriculture published a Notice of its proposed rules and regulations for implementing SB 494, legislation passed earlier this year to regulate the hemp industry. Written “comments” opposing or supporting the rules may be submitted to the Department until September 6, 2024. The Department will then hold a hearing at […]