Drug Possession Defense

A charge of drug possession can range anywhere from a Class C misdemeanor, which is punishable by to thirty (30) days in county jail, to a Class X felony, which is punishable up to thirty (30) years in a state penitentiary. Some drug possession charges, even some felonies, carry with it the possibility of having the charges expunged from your criminal record one day. Other types of charges carry mandatory minimum jail time or fines. Additionally, certain types of narcotics are viewed with more contempt by judges and prosecutors than others. Therefore, it is important to retain the services of a qualified drug possession attorney to represent you with your drug possession charge(s) that knows the law and knows the forum where your case is pending.

Typically, drugs are discovered by police in homes, vehicles or on an individual. Therefore, it is important for your attorney to make sure that the police search of your home, vehicle or person was constitutional. If not, it should be challenged immediately. Also, issues of whether the police or prosecutors can prove knowing possession of a controlled substance should be analyzed by your defense attorney. In most cases, the police and prosecutors are trying to prove possession through circumstantial evidence, such as the drugs were found in your room, a vehicle you were driving or was registered to you, etc. Less often, are drugs actually found on the body individual charged with drug possession.

Attorneys David Meyerson and Jason Stevens routinely challenge the constitutionality of police searches of their clients’ homes, cars and persons, in Skokie, Rolling Meadows, Maywood, Bridgeview, Markham, 26th and California, Waukegan, Wheaton, Joliet and Woodstock. Attorneys Meyerson and Stevens also conduct trials regarding whether their clients knowingly possessed drugs in Cook, Lake, DuPage, Will, Kane and McHenry Counties.