Kaiser Client Secures a Reduced Sentence After 10 Months of Litigation
The Kaiser team of Noah Brozinsky, Courtney Forrest, Jon Jeffress, and former associate Kim Blasey has secured a reduced sentence for our client after showing that his prior lawyer was constitutionally ineffective.
Two years ago, our client had a different lawyer. The client pled guilty to six criminal charges under a global plea agreement to close two cases. The client was completely unaware that the government had made an earlier, better offer that his lawyer never told him about. After he was sentenced, he hired our firm; we soon discovered that the client never heard about the prior, better, plea. To right that wrong, the Kaiser team filed a motion to vacate and correct the client’s sentence to get him that better plea back, arguing that his Sixth Amendment Right to an effective attorney was violated.
After months of investigation, Noah and Kim litigated the matter in D.C. Superior Court at a four-part evidentiary hearing spread over two months. Kaiser paralegal Nick Cooper also was an essential member of the hearing team.
The court found the prior lawyer never told our client about the prior plea, and that the client would have accepted it if he’d known about it. As a result, the court gave him the prior deal back – two of his convictions were vacated and a year was shaved off of his sentence.
Noah, Courtney, Jon, and the whole Kaiser team are delighted for our client and his family. A wrong has been righted, and the client will get to come home a full year sooner.
