Lynn, Massachusetts is a coastal city in Essex County. It has a population of around 90, The Lynn District Court , is an extremely busy court. It is located at Essex Street. It serves the towns of:. Criminal cases are heard in this court Monday through Friday beginning at a. As with many of the district courts sitting in large Massachusetts cities Lynn handles a wide variety of crimes. Many superior court cases begin in this court and are tracked pending indictment.
While the district courts do not have jurisdiction over superior court crimes there are a wide variety of events that can occur at this level prior to indictment.
Discovery can be ordered, non-evidentiary motions can be decided and probable cause hearings might be heard. Our office regularly defends criminal cases in the Lynn District Court. We have had great success defending all kinds of drug cases there for years. Possession, possession with intent, distribution and school zone violations for all controlled substances including marijuana, cocaine, heroin and oxycontins are just some of the crimes our office has defended in the Lynn District Court.
We have won many cases in this court through motions to dismiss or motions to suppress. Prostitution has been on the rise in Lynn for several years. Police officers are constantly watching to see who gets into cars with whom. When they see a casual conversation between someone driving and a woman they believe to be a prostitute they file charges. This by itself should not be sufficient to sustain a conviction. An experience lawyer knows this and in many of these instances can get your case dismissed.
Moreover, recently undercover female police officers posing as prostitutes have made arrests claiming that they were solicited for sex by a perspective client. We have been able to show this to be untrue and had cases dismissed.
