Pre-charge Investigations & Declinations

Search Warrants, Raids & Seizures

Surrender, Arrest & Bond Proceedings

Trial, Sentencing & Post Conviction Relief

Professional Licensing & Collateral Consequences

Criminal Defense

JLG Law provides strategic criminal defense at every stage of the process, from pre-charge investigations and search-warrant execution through arraignment, trial, sentencing, and post-conviction relief. Jennifer L. Gray also helps clients navigate surrender, seek declinations where appropriate, and address the professional licensing and other collateral consequences that can follow an allegation or charge.

Criminal allegations can affect far more than a person’s freedom. They may put a career, professional license, reputation, family, and future at risk. JLG Law takes a thorough, detail-oriented approach to each matter, building a defense tailored to the facts, the evidence, and the client’s broader goals. The firm represents clients in matters involving:

  • Pre-Charge Counsel and Investigations
  • Search Warrants, Raids and Seizures
  • Voluntary Surrender, Arrest and Bond Proceedings
  • State and Federal Criminal Defense
  • Grand Jury and Preliminary Proceedings
  • Trial Advocacy
  • Appeals and Post-Conviction Relief
  • Professional Licensing and Collateral Consequences

Representative Matters

  • Negotiated a plea in a state court case charged as an attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and weapons possession. We persuaded the prosecutor to reduce an original top count of a first degree felony to an expungeable fifth degree felony and a misdemeanor.  All original charges were dismissed and the client received a nonincarceratory sentence through the mental health court.
  • In a nearby municipality, our 17-year-old client was making a turn in his parent’s vehicle when a young woman on an e-scooter entered the crosswalk and the two collided in the roadway. Client stopped immediately and contacted police. When officers arrived, they rendered aid to the scooter rider and cited our client for failure to yield to a pedestrian. Astute legal research, however, demonstrated that within the municipality, an individual riding an e-scooter did not meet the definition of a pedestrian. What’s more, the driver of a turning vehicle wasn’t held liable for any collision resulting from a person entering a roadway at a high rate speed into the path of the vehicle. Once we provided the prosecutor with caselaw as well as time stamped video footage, he acknowledged that the evidence did not support the charges and the court dismissed the case in its entirety.

  • Achieved an unquestionable victory for a client facing elevated mandatory sentencing for a OVI arrest, his second in ten years. He had submitted to breath testing in the case, and had been found intoxicated. After carefully reviewing the discovery materials, we nonetheless persuaded a local Municipal Court to hold a probable cause hearing. 

    After we cross examined the highway patrol officer who had pulled our client over, we renewed our motion to suppress all of the evidence, including the results of the breath test and the patrolman’s observations of our client, as the “fruit of the poisonous tree.” The Court considered our arguments and the supportive caselaw we provided, and issued a decision finding that our client’s constitutional rights had, indeed, been violated during an unlawful police stop. 

    The prosecutor was left without any evidence to present at trial and, accordingly, dismissed the case.

    After the dismissal, we immediately filed a Motion to Expunge. The Court granted our request and directed the Court, local police, State Highway patrol, and any other agency with records related to our client’s arrest, citation, incarceration, and court proceedings to immediately and thoroughly destroy these records. Expungement allowed our client to resume his life unencumbered by the fear of any collateral consequences from this incident. 

    Reviewed discovery and persuaded the Court to grant request for a probable cause hearing in what would have otherwise resulted in a second-in-ten-year  OVI conviction for a client in local court. After I cross examined the highway patrol officer, I renewed the motion to suppress all evidence as “fruit of the poisonous tree.” The Court granted this motion, finding that the client’s constitutional rights had indeed been violated during the unlawful police stop. The prosecutor was left without any evidence to present at trial and therefore dismissed all charges.