Defending criminal cases involving conspiracy charges, wiretaps, confidential informants and multiple defendants requires a lawyer well versed in complex litigation.
In a 2013 Larimer County, Colorado trial that included all of those elements, Mark Johnson drew on his three decades of experience to defend an accused drug trafficker charged under the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act and the Colorado Controlled Substances Act.
A two-year, wide-ranging probe by the Northern Colorado Drug Task Force culminated with a grand jury indictment of 14 defendants accused of transporting cocaine and methamphetamine through Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Montana.
Trying the case against prosecutors from the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, Johnson successfully challenged a habitual offender claim leveled by the government against his client that would have resulted in a life sentence.