Criminal Defense

HWG LLP’s seasoned Criminal Defense team has years of experience in zealously representing companies and individuals facing the prospect of financial ruin, incarceration, and the stigma of conviction.

Our team’s depth of experience—including successes in the courtroom and in out-of-court discussions with prosecutors and law enforcement officers—gives clients the means to combat even the most relentless prosecutors employing the government’s virtually unlimited resources. We come prepared to fight, tailoring our defense strategies to each case, and mount a vigorous defense from initial investigation through trial and, when necessary, appeal.

Representative Experience

• Representing client indicted for multiple counts of manslaughter for actions arising out of service protecting U.S. Department of State diplomats in Baghdad, Iraq.
• Represented one of the defendants in S. v. Price, Zaborsky & Ward, a high-profile obstruction of justice case in the District of Columbia Superior Court. After the two-month trial, the defendant was found not guilty.
• Obtained a reversal of conviction for a juvenile defendant in an assault-with-intent-to-kill case.
• Negotiated a favorable plea in an internet pharmacy case.
• Obtained dismissal of all charges in a cigarette smuggling case.
• Won jury acquittal of all charges in assault-with-intent-to-kill case.