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Attorney Lown recently won a suppression motion in Suffolk Superior Court that resulted in all charges against his client being dismissed. The case began when police secretly placed a GPS tracking device on someone else’s car without legal authority. That tracking eventually led officers to Attorney Lown’s client. Attorney Lown argued that basic fairness and constitutional rights apply to everyone. Police should not be allowed to break the rules by placing a GPS on one person

Not Guilty Despite a Breath Test Twice the Legal Limit – Police claimed the client blew nearly twice the legal limit and failed sobriety tests, but Attorney Lown exposed flaws in the investigation and secured a not guilty verdict. Challenged the Science Behind the Breathalyzer – Working with a former head of the Massachusetts State Crime Lab, Attorney Lown showed that officers failed to follow proper testing procedures and could not verify the machine's accuracy. Used the Off

Jails and prisons in Mass. remain filled with hundreds of individuals who can’t afford bail or are nearing their wrap dates. Yet they...

With crime already falling,"Broken Windows Policing" was rolled out with great fanfare and a new guise of academic security-think....

Attorney Lown recently prevailed at a restraining order hearing in Chelsea District Court. The plaintiff had accused Lown’s client of...

Attorney Lown received a top ranking from other lawyers, according to the website Martindale which lists lawyers and provides for a peer...

By a Lown Law Firm client and friend: "I had Zachary Lown as my criminal defense attorney on a domestic case. This was in Boston....

After an extraordinary hearing that lasted over 4 hours, Attorney Lown prevailed on behalf of his client in the Lynn District Court. The...

The green card processing time on this case was unusually fast. The spouse initially came here to study. She later fell in love with a...

Attorney Lown’s motion to suppress win in Boston’s downtown district court underscored an important fact: police officers do not have...

Ultimately, Attorney Lown prevailed and was able to show the DA that this was an accident, not a crime.

The District Attorney for Suffolk County, which includes Boston, is still prosecuting petty crimes that she pledged to drop. District...

​​The victory was achieved through Attorney Lown’s cross-examination of the accuser and a brief argument to the Clerk Magistrate. The...

Attorney Lown won a “not guilty” jury verdict for his client who was mis-identified as the man who threatened two women with a gun....

Rachael Rollins is already feeling the pressure to back off her reform agenda. She doesn't seem like the type to easily back down. Just...

Breath tests in OUI cases are set to be excluded for 2011 to at least 2017. It appears prosecutors are not using breathalyzer results in...

August 9, 2018 - A Dorchester jury deliberated today for barely 10 minutes before coming back "Not Guilty" for Attorney Lown's...

We are now fifty years since American soldiers massacred nearly 500 unarmed women, children and old men at Mai Lai in Vietnam, and yet,...

A Boston Police officer chased a young man out of a building where he was visiting his friends, slammed this young man on the ground,...