Lawrence D Mort Family Law+Child Custody Rochester/Buffalo NY City

Contact Attorney at Law Lawrence D. Mort, email lawrence.mort70@gmail.com. We are concentrating in Family Law Child Custody Divorce Separation Child Support + Real Estate. Formerly criminal trial lawyer. Currently working on child support defense, arrears of over $400,000. Member Bar Association of Erie County 2009-10 + NY Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Attended Trial Masters Seminar World Trade Center 2000. Gerry Spence, Jack Litman, Albert Krieger and other Masters of Criminal Defense. An aspect of trial law you may wish to consider in hiring an attorney is what kind of witnesses he/she has dealt with previously. Mort has worked with many ballistics experts, more than several psychiatrists/social workers, arson fire investigators, forgery & handwriting experts, DEA + undercover drug operatives, Medical Examiners {MD's who determine cause of death}, drunk driving investigators/police, and hypnosis experts among others. You may also consider whether the lawyer has handled Narcotics Conspiracy + Continuing Criminal Enterprise crimes in Federal + State Court, Tax Frauds, Medicaid Frauds, MDL Securities Conspiracy. What is the essence of our task? Communication. Insight. Argument. Fight. Victory.

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More Criminal Defense Cases
Former Client Southern District Wins Pulitzer Prize for Music
Former employer Cafaro Co. Built Avanti in Youngstown OHIO 1987, leases 33 million square feet of retail space e.g. Millcreek Mall in Erie. Listed in Corporate Counsel 1988.
DWI Manslaughter Success in Suffolk County
Client Bailed Out of Elmhurst + Moved for Severence.

Family Law. From Gilbert's CPL 20.40(4)g:Crime may not be prosecuted in adjacent county by relying on the private vehicle trip statute, ibid, where the complainant was able to identify the place where the crime was allegedly committed. Peo. v. Moore 46 NY 2d 1, 412 NYS23d 795, 385 NE 2d 535 (1978)

• Fights for Results for You. Warning Results Cannot be Guaranteed by Lawyers + We Cannot Take Criminal Cases on Contingency Basis
• 33 years experience Winning
• Litigator Battered Women . We have sued men for divorce in Germany, El Salvador, Africa, and even the Catskill mountains. A custodial parent is entilted to collect in NY State at least 17% of the gross income of the non-custodial parent minus social security taxes plus a reasonable share of daycare + medical expenses of your child.
• ***Never defeated misdemeanor trial*** These include assault, DWI, rape, theft and many others. The DA's office may reduce felonies to misdemeanors when it seriously questions the credibility of its witnesses.
• Contempt Felony Indictment results in Misd Plea Bronx. Contempt can be refusal to testify or testifying evasively. Gambling investigation.
• Burglary Second Felon gets 4 mos at Willard Drug Program for Second Felony Conviction Monroe County Supreme Court Justice Ark
• Grandmother obtains Custody of Three Grandsons after Trial Monroe County
• DWI misd trial NG but driving while impaired/fine BX County
• Misd Theft stealing money from lady in store Not Guilty Manhattan J. Mogel
• Assault Not Guilty Bronx Criminal Court J Enten
• Client received 20-life for Second Homicide. Trial Insanity Defense psychiatrist Dr. Teich. Justice Lawrence Tonetti,
• Not Guilty Robbery One after trial Bronx--PO's had created new paperwork b4 Trial
• Not guilty Assault Queens Social Club bench trial
• Not Guilty Assault Queens theatre bench trial
• Violations Received Cashing Fraudulent Check at Bank After Waiving to Grand Jury.Monroe County.
• Many successful Negotiated Pleas, sometimes 18 months+ after Arrest/Incarceration. Though most of the listed cases were fought through trial or appeal, most of counsel's work, in terms of number of clients, has been bargaining for the Best Deal for client.
• Member Bar Association of Erie County 2009-2010. Formerly member of Monroe County Bar Association, New York County Lawyers Association, NY City Criminal Courts Bar Association, NY State Defenders Association [sustaining], Bronx County Bar Association, Nassau County Bar Association, Long Beach Lawyers Association; Corporate Counsel, 1988. Formerly assigned counsel with CJA Eastern District of NY--US District Court; Appellate Division First Dept. appeals; Appellate Division Second Dept. appeals; Family Court panels of Brooklyn, Bronx & Manhattan; Criminal Court panels of Manhattan & Bronx & Nassau [City of Long Beach], Monroe County {City Court of Rochester}; Felony Defense panels of Manhattan, Bronx, Erie, Monroe & Nassau Counties. Argued Successfully Assigned Case in Court of Appeals, People v. Moore. Successfully handled trials to verdict in Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Suffolk, Queens & Monroe Counties.
• Found to have Rendered Effective Assistance of Counsel by Hon Jack Weinstein + Second Circuit US Court of Appeals on a Double Homicide Case. J.Weinstein cited Peo. v Moore in 411 FS2d 313.
• Member NY Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. 2009. Formerly sustaining member.
• Probation Plea Manhattan for Woman Embezzling $80,000 in Theatre Tickets from Helmsley Hotel.Judge Rothwax.
• Client in Long Beach arrested for multiple counts of Rape One pled to possession MJ received 8 mos. Nassau Co Jail. No ID at lineup. Judge Mackston.
• Southern District Client Receives Probation for Selling Near School. We argued not Significant to Conspiracy in CCE.
• Client acquitted of First Undercover Sale of Cocaine. Entrapment/agency Defense. Client prominent Salsa musician. Judge Neco. Manhattan.
• Filed 3 writs of certiorari. Bill Gause won his vacating of death penalty from Arizona. State v Gause 107 Ariz 491, 489 P2d 830, judg vacated by Gause v Ariz 10/10/72 409 US 815,93 SCt 192, 34 LEd2d 71{counsel of record Bernard I Rabinovitz}. Joe Pena 50 NY 2d 400, 429 NYS 2d 410, 406 NE2d 1347, reargument denied 51 NY 2d 770,cert den 449 US 1037,66 LEd 2d 814, 101 SCt 878 (1/12/81)Pena's case at App Div: 68 AD2d 893, 413 NYS 2d 1022. Mort v Ohio Bd 53 Ohio State 3d 260, 560 NE2d 204, cert denied 498 US 1072, 111 SCt 795, 112 LEd2d 857 {1/22/91}