Criminal Defense
Depend on US to Defend.
If you’ve landed here, chances are you’re trying to avoid jail time, reduce your charges and/or keep your record clean. Your next step should be to call us and start taking back your life. Our experienced attorneys have successfully defended people in a wide range of cases from misdemeanors to high-level felonies in both state and federal court and genuinely want to help you achieve your goal of avoiding the damaging effects convictions could have on your future.
To the law enforcement system, you are just another file. But to us, you are our priority and we take your freedom seriously.
Practice Area Focus in Both State and Federal Court
DUIs
Felonies
Misdemeanors
Expungements & Record Sealing
Post Conviction Relief
“I was arrested for DUI, which would have substantially impacted my career. The WM lawyers got a not guilty at trial. They fought hard and clearly cared about me and my future.”
Client Success Stories:
DUI Reduced to Reckless Driving
John Rockwell of Woolsey Morcom represented a recent college graduate who was arrested after being pulled over for driving recklessly, admitting to consuming multiple alcoholic beverages, and performing poorly on the field sobriety exercises.
attorney on the case:
John Rockwell
YOUR FUTURE - Expungements & Sealings of Arrests and Restraining Orders/ Injunctions
In 2020 alone, attorney John Rockwell of Woolsey Morcom has successfully petitioned courts all over Northeast Florida to seal or expunge criminal records, and seal prior injunctions and restraining orders, which renders the cases completely invisible from the public eye, or physically destroyed all together.
attorney on the case:
John Rockwell
YOUTHFUL OFFENDER SENTENCES
Even in serious, punishable by life felony charges such as Armed Robbery with a Firearm or Drug Trafficking, Florida’s Youthful Offender statute provides judges with a mechanism to sentence certain individuals as Youthful Offenders. Among other authority, the statute allows a judge - even if the State Attorney’s Office does not consent or agree - to ignore certain minimum mandatory sentences that such serious felonies often carry when firearms or certain quantities of drugs are involved, the ability to cap sentence maximums so that a defendant faces significantly less exposure than the ordinary statutory maximum, and the ability to withhold adjudication (meaning no felony conviction)…