New York Narcotics Defense Lawyers

 
New York Drug & Narcotics Defense Lawyers

Mayo Bartlett is a Drug Lawyer who has the experience and dedication that you or your loved one needs on their side when facing drug and narcotics charges.  He is a former Westchester County prosecutor who served more than 10 years in the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office in White Plains New York.  He has also been a criminal defense attorney since 2003, and he has a thorough understanding of police procedure from years spent working with officers and detectives in White Plains and throughout Westchester County, New York City and the Hudson Valley.  He has handled thousands of criminal cases, and has successfully reduced the many felony drug charges to misdemeanors, violations, or had them dismissed entirely.  He has obtained a verdict of not guilty for a variety of criminal charges that would have resulted in sentences of decades, and sometimes life in prison.  

Mayo has handled thousands of drug cases throughout new york state as both a prosecutor and a defense attorney.  He represents people charged with possession and sale of heroin, opioids, cocaine, prescription drugs and other narcotics.  Mayo Bartlett has extensive experience in New York State and Federal Courts,  and he is familiar with every aspect of handling cases involving Narcotics and Drug Related Cases from the investigative stage through trial.  Our criminal defense team works frequently with private investigators and forensic experts to provide you with the best defense.

Narcotics and Drug Related Cases

Narcotics and Drug Cases are serious matters that may lead to loss of your freedom, loss of your job, and even deportation, in addition to high fines and the possibility of long jail sentences, Narcotics, and Drug offenses may lead to the loss of your Driver License.  Almost all Narcotics and Drug cases are considered “crimes of moral turpitude” for immigration purposes.  

In New York, you may be charged with Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree, a Class B Felony, which carries a maximum penalty of nine years in prison, for simply handing a narcotic or illegal drug to another person, even if they do not pay you for it.   

You may be charged with Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the First Degree if you knowingly and unlawfully sell:

1. one or more preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances

containing a narcotic drug and the preparations, compounds, mixtures or

substances are of an aggregate weight of two ounces or more; or

2. methadone and the methadone weighs two thousand eight hundred

eighty milligrams or more.

Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the First Degree is a Class A-I Felony, and it carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

1. You may lose your freedom
2. You may lose your job
3. You may face immigration consequences
4. You may be placed on probation
5. You may be subjected to random drug testing and be required to undergo drug treatment
6. You may be ineligible for a professional license  
7. You may lose your Driver License

At the Law Offices of Mayo Bartlett, PLLC., our legal team consists of trial attorneys who have experience in defending Drug cases.  Mayo Bartlett has been involved in the New York criminal system for more than 10 years as a prosecutor and even longer as a defense attorney.  Our Westchester drug defense lawyers have handled numerous drug cases.  Mayo Bartlett has personally prosecuted or defended well over one thousand drug cases in Westchester County New York. His unique experience as a former Westchester County Drug Prosecutor, and current Westchester Drug Defense Lawyer helps him to achieve extraordinary results for our clients facing drug charges in Westchester County.  Our Westchester drug defense attorneys will fight to allow you to participate in drug court where appropriate.  If you are a candidate for drug court, your drug charges may be reduced, or even dismissed, if you successfully complete the program.  Our primary objective is to allow you to return to your life stronger than you were the day you retained us.

Our westchester drug defense lawyers are experienced attorneys who work with forensic experts and private investigators with law enforcement experience.  We will carefully scrutinize all of the allegations against you and we will present evidence of your innocence to to prosecutor in an effort to avoid charges if they have not already been filed, or to get filed charges reduced or dismissed.  We serve all of the boroughs of New York City, as well as Rockland County, Putnam County, Dutchess County, Ulster County, Westchester County, and more. Contact us for a consultation.

With offices located in the Westchester Financial Center which is one block from the White Plains Train Station and bus depot, and two blocks from the Westchester County Court, our criminal defense team handles felonies in Federal Court, as well as New York State Courts in New York City, Westchester County, including White Plains, Yonkers, Mount Vernon, Rye, Sleepy Hollow, Peekskill, Mount Pleasant, Pleasantville, Tarrytown, Dobbs Ferry, Armonk, Chappaqua, Greenburgh, Elmsford, Valhalla, New Rochelle, Bronxville, Eastchester, Scarsdale, Mamaroneck, Hartsdale, Harrison, Mount Vernon, Pelham, Port Chester, Somers, Ossining, Yorktown, Croton on Hudson, Cortlandt, Brewster, Southeast, Putnam Valley, Larchmont, Bedford, Katonah, Mount Kisco, New Castle, North Castle, Lewisboro, South Salem, North Salem, Hastings, Nyack, Ardsley, Irvington, Tuckahoe, Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Putnam County, Dutchess County, Rockland County, Ulster County and throughout the Hudson Valley.

Mayo appears almost every week on a legal panel featured on Richard French Live which is available on WRNN and Verizon Fios.  The show is taped live every Wednesday from 6:00 pm to 7:00 p.m. and airs throughout New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, including the five boroughs of New York City.

If you or someone you know is facing allegations of Criminal Possession of Narcotics, Criminal Sale of Narcotics, or the Drug Related Crimes, don’t hesitate.  Contact our Westchester drug defense attorneys  now and let our narcotics defense lawyers begin the fight to protect your business and to keep your freedom.