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Criminal-Defense Support · Suppression Support

Suppression
Support

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Suppression is where police practices meet the calendar: a focused question, a hearing date, and a record that either supports the procedure or does not. The analysis arrives shaped for exactly that proceeding.

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The Scope

What this covers.

Within this engagement

  • Evidentiary and suppression-hearing testimony
  • Search-and-seizure practices
  • False-arrest practices for the defense
  • Warrant preparation and execution review
  • What officers knew and when they knew it
How it is analyzed

The stop, search or arrest at issue, reconstructed from the record and measured against accepted police practice, delivered as report and hearing testimony on the defense calendar.

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From the Library

Working references for this practice area.

Guides for retaining counsel, written from the same record this analysis reads.

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Questions

Before the record is sent.

Does he testify at suppression hearings?
Yes. Evidentiary and suppression-hearing testimony is part of the core practice, alongside deposition and trial work.
What does retention cost?
A non-refundable $9,000 flat fee covering discovery review and the written expert report, with a bullet-point outline approved with counsel before writing begins. The full published schedule is on the For Counsel page.
Retain

Send the suppression record.

Attorney and law-firm inquiries only. Conflicts are checked before anything substantive, and you will hear about a conflict immediately.

Suppression support inquiry

For defense counsel preparing a suppression hearing.

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You will hear back directly. If the matter is urgent, call (239) 571-1840.

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Conflicts are checked before any substantive discussion. Please do not send privileged material with a first inquiry; after retention the record is exchanged on physical media. Gregory consults for attorneys and their staff only, and does not provide legal advice or attorney referrals to individuals.

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