Criminal Defense Attorney

Brad was named one of Boston Magazine's "Super Lawyers" for 2004, 2006 and 2007 and a "New England Super Lawyer" for 2007.  He has been profiled by Dan Rather in CBS Television's "Eye On America" and was rated "Outstanding Prosecutor" while working as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston where he never lost a single case. Among Brad's more notable cases are Commonwealth v. Urban, an appellate case where he successfully argued for, and won, a new trial for his client at both the Appeals Court and Supreme Judicial Court. His client was serving a 6 year prison sentence and was subsequently released from state prison; N.H. v. Sheila LaBarre, a double murder insanity trial in which he served as co-lead counsel, United States v. David LaFleur, a police corruption case in which he and his partner obtained not guilty verdicts; United States v. Michael Vaccaro, where, as lead counsel, he obtained another jury acquittal on a case in which the client was facing a mandatory minimum thirty year prison sentence; and Commonwealth v. John Doe, in which he won a not guilty verdict in a case of a twenty-one year-old Division I lacrosse player accused of rape. He also represented clients in United States v. Angela Buckborough, the state's largest private embezzlement prosecution; United States v. James Dorman, a Staples Executive accused of fraud/theft; United States v. Justin Ficken, a financial advisor accused of participation in large scale market-timing related fraud; and United States v. Carlos Pizarro, a Boston police corruption case. He also currently represents a young man accused of killing his grandmother in Commonwealth v. James Clark. Brad successfully challenged the aggravated sexual assault convictions and won the immediate release of his client from state prison, as well as the reversal of his guilty verdicts, in State of New Hampshire v. Earl Knipfer by demonstrating that trial counsel's failure to call an expert witness familiar with the complaining witnesses little known cognitive disorder deprived the client of effective assistance of counsel at trial. Brad recently used an overlooked procedural rule to preserve evidence via video-deposition, and new case law pursuant to the SJC's decision in Commonwealth v. Adjutant, to establish that the deceased was actually the first aggressor in Commonwealth v. Ericson, a western MA murder case.