Massachusetts Criminal Lawyer Blog
CP is the 34 year old owner of a successful junk removal business living in Lawrence. He was born in the DR but became a citizen at age 21. In October of 2018 he was arrested in Lawrence and charged with Operating After Suspension of License, Subsequent Offense. While that case was pending in Lawrence District Court, CP was arrested again for the same charge (Operating After Suspension, Subsequent Offense) on December 29, 2018 in Haverhill District Court. On January 16, 2019 CP went to Lawerence District Court, plead guilty and was placed on Probation and orderd to pay a fine.
After that, CP did not follow through on his probation in Lawrence District Court and he failed to appear in Haverhill District Court. Warrants were issued from both courts. From 2019 to 2026 the cases sat in warrant status. CP could not get a license and he needed a license to carry on his growing and successful business. Finally, on May 28, 2026, CP met with and retained Attorney Robert Lewin from Andover. Attorney Lewin developed a strategy for favorably resolving CP’s cases in both courts.
Attorney Lewin met with the Probation Officer in Lawrence District Court. Probation agreed that if CP paid the fines that he been ordered to pay when he was placed on Probation back in 2019 that the Probation Office would recommend to the Judge that his probation would be terminated and he would be discharged from any further responsibility to Lawrence District Court. CP immedeiately paid the fines he had been ordered to pay to Lawrence District Court.
On June 3, 2026 CP and Attorney Lewin first went to Haverhill District Court. The warrant in Haverhill District Court was cancelled, CP was arraigned and was released without any bail, and the Haverhill Case was continued one week to June 11, 2026. The Judge in Haverhill ordered CP to go immediately to Lawrence District Court to address the warrant in Lawrence. CP and Attorney Lewin left Haverhill District Court and immediately drove over to Lawrence District Court (in Attorney Lewin’s car!). CP and Attorney Lewin went before the Judge in Lawrence. CP had already paid the fines. The Judge, upon the recommendation of Attorney Lewin and the Probation Officer, cancelled the warrant, terminated CP’s Probation, and discharged CP from any further responsibility in the case to Lawrence District Court. (Win# 1)
On June 11, 2026, CP and Attorney Lewin returned to Haverhill District Court. Here CP got very lucky. Attorney Lewin did some research on the Haverhill Case. Attorney Lewin discovered that the officer who stopped CP in Haverhill 7 1/2 years earlier had died and that it would be impossible for the DA to prosecute the case. Their one witness was gone. Attorney Lewin confronted the DA with this news and the DA agreed to dismiss the case. On June 11, 2026, CP, Attorney Lewin, and the DA all appeared before the Judge and the Judge ordered the case dismissed. (Win# 2)
Attorney Lewin was retained on May 28, 2026. Six days later the warrants in two courts were cancelled and the probation in Lawrence was terminated. Eight days after that the case in Haverhill was dismissed. Reuslts like this are common for Attorney Robert Lewin. Attorney Lewin was an Assistant District Attorney from 1971-1974. From 1975 to the present (51 years) Attorney Lewin has limited his practice to criminal defense. There are very few lawyers in Massachusetts who bring the years of experience, the breath of knowledge of criminmal law and criminal procedure, and the simple “know how” to every case and every client as does Attorney Robert Lewin.
(As an aside, when the cases were all finished, Attorney Lewin needed some demolition and junk removal work done. Attorney Lewin hired and paid CP to do the work. As Attorney Lewin had done for CP, CP did the work promptly and successfully for Attorney Lewin!)