Dave was nominated by his peers and selected by a committee of federal judges and lawyers specializing in federal criminal defense to serve on the Criminal Justice Act (CJA) panel of attorneys qualified to be appointed to federal criminal cases. Dave has obtained sentences below the federal sentencing guidelines for clients charged with fraud, smuggling, gun, and drug charges in the Federal District Court for the Western District of Washington.
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In State v. Longo, Division One of the Washington State Court of Appeals held that the State was not barred from introducing evidence of Mr. Longo’s allegedly illegal marijuana grow by virtue of a previous decision in a city forfeiture proceeding which held that the search of Mr. Longo’s house was illegal.
The Court’s decision turned on the doctrine of collateral…