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18-Year-Old Lynn Man Faces Criminal Charges For Weapons...To Wit: Explosives ? Attorney Sam?s Take

By Altman & Altman

Recently, I was discussing a case with a client who was charged with possessing drugs with the intent to distribute in a school zone. It became clear that he had suddenly come into contact with the need to express a certain confusion. It happened just after I explained to him, once again, that the School Zone count carried a mandatory minimum sentence of two years. ?Yeah, but they can?t send me to jail, even if convicted?, opined ?Client X? (just think of him as a police officer who shot someone. They?re names are never revealed). I asked him for the reasoning behind this legal opinion and he explained that he had a clean record and so, somehow, the mandatory minimum did not apply to him. I then reminded him that his record was far from clean...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on February 25, 2011 (boomark / email).