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Drug Crimes

Drug cases are among the most intricate to defend, and nothing is quite what it appears at first blush. A simple possession charge, drugs found on a person, may rest on an illegal search and seizure. Someone caught with a large quantity of drugs for sale should always ask: how did the government know what I had, how did it know where I would be, and how did it know whom I was selling to? Most often the answer is a confidential informant, a wiretap, or questionable law enforcement tactics.

Drug crimes include possession of controlled substances (marijuana, spice, methamphetamine, bath salts, precursor chemicals, cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, ecstasy, and prescription drugs); possession of drug paraphernalia; trafficking and sales; manufacturing; cultivation of marijuana; use of a wire or electronic communication to arrange a drug transaction; conspiracy to commit sales; and money laundering.

Ms. Jakobe has spent 21 years attacking large-scale drug cases. She obtains everything the government is required to turn over to the defense, then goes after what it would rather not. She does not rely on the police report. She works through the smallest details of the State’s investigation, from the affidavit to the search warrant, ferrets out the confidential informant, examines how the government obtained its wiretap, and listens to every recording. Drug cases demand painstaking attention to detail, and Ms. Jakobe thrives on it.