Federal-State Criminal Appeals | Post-Conviction Representation

Law Office of Kathleen J. Hill

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Federal-State Criminal Appeals | Post-Conviction Representation

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Forever changing the landscape of federal sentencing in 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Booker/Fanfan metamorphosed the mandatory sentencing guidelines into advisory sentencing guidelines by ruling that the mandatory sentencing guidelines are unconstitutional. In December of 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court released yet another remarkable decision in Gall that effectively requires your sentencing judge to impose a sentence that is not greater than necessary in your individualized case by following the newly acceptable sentencing procedure set forth in Gall. Finding the extent of what sets your case apart from other cases may entitle you to be re-sentenced, re-tried, or to have your conviction reversed.

FEDERAL CRIMINAL APPEALS

PRACTICE AREAS

State and Federal Criminal Appeals
Petitions for Rehearing
State and Federal Habeas Corpus Petitions/Motions
Post-conviction Motions to Revise and Revoke
Post-conviction Motions for a New Trial
Post-conviction Motions to Correct Clerical Sentencing Errors
Expungement of Massachusetts Criminal Records

Federal and State Criminal Appeals | Post-Conviction Relief

State and Federal post-conviction representation is a review process that checks the government's case. Post-conviction representation is best started before you have been sentenced and before your have filed your notice of appeal. You can challenge the government on appeal or possibly by post-conviction relief, if it is determined that a legal error has been made in your case; and, after a direct appeal by filing a habeas corpus petition for ineffective assistance of trial counsel. If your trial counsel did not properly preserve an issue for appeal on the record to give the trial court or the sentencing court an opportunity to correct the legal error, your legal remedies will be limited.

If you were convicted in Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire or Puerto Rico, and would like to schedule an initial consultation with Attorney Hill please call us at (617) 742-0457.

Attorney Hill is a bar member of the First Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court, who accepts cases in the federal districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Puerto Rico. She has maintained law offices out of Boston, Massachusetts and San Juan, Puerto Rico. To protect your consitutional rights and liberty, you know that you need to have your case reviewed by an experienced, federal appellate lawyer like Attorney Hill. Attorney Hill has over ten years of federal criminal appellate experience. Give her a call, today.

Telephone: (617) 742-0457