Santa Clara Drug Attorney
Lempert Law

If you are charged with a drug crime in Santa Clara, California, you could face other serious consequences. You could find yourself required to attend and pay for individual counseling and group drug counseling for years. These sessions could be as intense as 3 days a week for 4-hour sessions. As part of your plea deal or sentencing, you could be put on probation, which carries strict rules and guidelines. Lempert Law can help protect your rights after you are charged with a drug offense.

Having a criminal record of any kind can put a huge blemish on your life. Your friends and family could discover information about your arrest. Coworkers and other community members could also find out. Of course, a criminal record can also affect your current and future employment.

Santa Clara drug attorney Dennis Alan Lempert is dedicated to protecting his clients' rights. If you have been charged with a drug crime, from possession of marijuana to international narcotics trafficking, he will fight for you.

Lempert Law does not take drug charges lightly, and he understands the catastrophic effect a drug crime conviction can have on your life above and beyond the potential criminal penalties. At Lempert Law, our Santa Clara drug crimes attorneys handle federal and state narcotics cases involving marijuana, crack, cocaine, methamphetamines, heroin, "designer drugs" such as Ecstasy, prescription drugs, and many others, including drug offenses such as:

• Drug possession
• Possession with intent to deliver, sales, or drug distribution
• Possession of drug paraphernalia
• Drug trafficking or importation
• Drug cultivation or manufacturing, including operation of a meth lab
• Drug conspiracy
• RICO

Dennis Alan Lempert has extensive experience successfully defending drug cases by relentlessly challenging illegal searches, attacking misconduct by overzealous police officers, raising issues of technical defenses and errors committed by the investigators.

Where all else fails by conscientiously negotiating the best settlement possible.

Seeking placement with rehabilitation experts to overcome addiction problems.

Presenting defensible cases to juries to seek a finding of not guilty.

Proposition 36 and Drug Diversion are programs intended to avoid initially jailing non-violent drug users convicted of drug crimes involving personal use. However, jail is still possible in these types of personal use cases after multiple violations of terms and conditions of probation and in cases involving sales of drugs, possession for sale, and for a variety of other type of drug cases.

Serious drug cases can result in very harsh punishment and years in prison.

For persons who are not citizens, whether misdemeanors or felonies are considered justification for immigration authorities to deport drug offenders from the United States.

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER talk to the police without your experienced criminal defense lawyer being present.

ALWAYS insist that you want a lawyer before you say anything.

NEVER Allow Police to Search You, Your Car or Your House Unless They Have a Search Warrant

If you or a person near and dear to you have been arrested for an incident involving drug related offense, IMMEDIATELY contact Dennis Alan Lempert for a free initial consultation. Call (408) 233-0949