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Charlotte has advised clients involved in multijurisdictional bribery and corruption, complex fraud and money laundering investigations commenced by a number of enforcement agencies, including the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). She has experience representing individuals in relation to contentious regulatory matters, in particular, investigations

In exchange for the state’s dismissal of other charges – including carjacking – defendant pled guilty to kidnapping and using a firearm during a crime of violence. Years later, we determined that kidnapping is not a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). Since the plea transcript shows that defendant’s § 924(c) offense was

The Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) allows for the enhancement of a sentence if the defendant has “three previous convictions . . . for a violent felony or a serious drug offense . . . committed on occasions different from one another.” The court rejects defendant’s argument that a jury must decide whether prior offenses

Where defendant did not follow up his preliminary objection with a timely objection to the testimony of the prosecution’s expert in accident reconstruction, defendant did not preserve his objection for appellate review. Furthermore, at the trial level, defense counsel argued in his preliminary objection that the expert’s testimony was too speculative to be relevant. Yet