Justice delayed need not be justice denied: Seasoned Criminal Appeals Advocate
Mark M. Baker: Proven Success in Appeals & Post-Conviction Litigation. Urgency met with Advocacy. Your conviction challenged with expertise. Your path to justice begins here.
MARK M. BAKER, ESQUIRE
Mark M. Baker, Esq., is an aggressive and creative New York criminal appeals and post-verdict/post-conviction attorney who concentrates his practice on appeals in the New York State courts. If you have the financial means to retain private counsel for your appeal, you can benefit from Mr. Baker’s support, advocacy and knowledge.
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Protecting Your Rights and Liberty
Under Mr. Baker's representation, your rights are prioritized, ensuring a strategic and results-driven appeal for relief from your criminal conviction. Personally examining each case, he crafts compelling arguments, including addressing prosecutorial misconduct, presenting newly discovered evidence, highlighting ineffective assistance of counsel, and exploring other grounds for appeal or post-conviction litigation.
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Comprehensive Legal Expertise
Mr. Baker handles a wide range of criminal convictions, including white-collar crimes (fraud, larceny, money laundering, tax evasion), violent offenses (homicide, robbery, burglary, sex offenses), and drug offenses. His exhaustive expertise spans various areas of criminal law, making him well-equipped to tackle the complexities of your case.
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Grounds for Appeals
If you believe there are grounds for an appeal, for example, judicial, prosecutorial or evidentiary errors, Mr. Baker is ready to provide information and guidance. Contact him to explore your options for challenging and contesting your criminal conviction.
ACCOMPLISHED ATTORNEY FOR HIGH-PROFILE CASES AND AVERAGE CITIZENS
New York State Court of appeals, the highest court in the state, in which Mr. Baker has made close to 25 appearances.
Courtroom of the Appellate Division, First Department, serving Bronx and New York Counties
Mr. Baker has concentrated for over four decades on helping people convicted of serious crimes to protect their rights and their liberty from infringement by the state and federal governments. Early in his career, Mr. Baker served for 10 years as a state prosecutor concentrating in appellate work. Since 1983, he has focused on criminal defense work, handling criminal appeals.
Mr. Baker has personally walked numerous clients out of prison after demonstrating their actual innocence. (See video link from January 29, 2017: Mr. Baker’s discussion at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale of three instances wherein he engineered the exoneration of those individuals, and which includes appearances by his exonerated client, Anthony DiPippo, as well as exoneree Jeffrey Deskovic, founder of the Jeffrey Deskovic Foundation for Justice.) In addition to representing average citizens, he has handled appellate litigation for several national political figures, high-profile businessmen, and he has been involved in numerous celebrated cases.
Facade of the Appellate Division, Second Department, serving Kings, Queens, Richmond, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, and certain lower Hudson Valley counties.
Mr. Baker is perhaps best known as the legal counsel who strategized the evidentiary issues that contributed to Bernhard Goetz’s 1987 acquittal of all subway shooting charges (Now featured in Netflix’s “Trial By Media”). For more than the last four decades, in both the New York and federal courts, he has oftentimes either won appellate reversals, or modifications, or sentence reductions, e.g. People v. Giuliano, People v. Streitferdt, People v. Spinelli, People v. DiPippo, People v. Pordy, and People v. Nisthalal, People v. Alma Caldavado, People v. Dhillon, People v. Dhillon II, United States v. Couto, and United States v. Litwok, dismissals of charges, e.g. People v. Galgano, People v. Gallagher, People v. Goldman, People v. Hassan, won the right to evidentiary hearings, e.g. People v Chodakowski, or he has successfully argued for dramatic changes in the judicial interpretation of applicable criminal law, e.g. People v. Goetz, People v. Wolf and People v. McCray. In October 2016, following his victory in the Court of Appeals in the DiPippo matter, he participated in the defendant’s third trial which resulted in a complete exoneration after the accused had spent 20 years in prison.
Facade of the New York State Court of Appeals
Practice Areas
A conviction for a crime may feel final, but it does not mean the end of your rights to challenge your case. Depending on the circumstances, your case may have reviewable issues for an appeal. New York lawyer Mark M. Baker, Esq. assists clients charged or convicted of crimes at every stage of criminal proceedings in the New York State courts.
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If your right to appeal has been safeguarded with a timely notice of appeal, Mr. Baker can provide you with skilled representation in an appeal to New York and federal higher courts.
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In addition to criminal appeals, Mr. Baker assists clients and their criminal defense attorneys at every pre-conviction stage of criminal motion litigation, including pretrial challenges to the indictment in addition to-, post-conviction motions for relief.
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Mr. Baker may be able to challenge your conviction if evidence is now available in your case that exonerates you or demonstrates your actual innocence, which had not been available before your conviction.
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In appropriate cases, Mr. Baker prepares collateral motions to vacate judgments of conviction, or set aside verdicts, based on the prosecution’s failure to disclose evidence and other unrecorded improper behavior.
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Every case is different, and myriad reasons for an appeal, pre-conviction or post-conviction challenge exist. Mr. Baker may be able to challenge your case based on constitutional, evidentiary or procedural violations.
If you believe you have grounds for an appeal or other collateral post-conviction or post-judgment challenge to your criminal conviction, contact Mr. Baker for more information.