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 or other post-conviction/post-judgment motion for relief. New York City and state federal criminal appeals lawyer Mark M. Baker, Esq., assists clients charged or convicted of crimes at every stage of criminal proceedings in both state and federal court.
New York Criminal Defense Lawyer
If you have the financial ability to hire a private attorney, you may be able to successfully appeal your case, or mount a successful post-conviction/post-judgment collateral challenge, if viable issues exist. Mr. Baker provides experienced assistance with:
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Criminal Appeals
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 appellate courts.
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Criminal Motions Litigation
In addition to criminal appeals, Mr. Baker assists clients and their criminal defense attorneys in post-conviction motions for relief.
There may be any one of a host of other issues that can be raised to challenge a conviction, even if only supported by issues that are not reflected in the record on appeal, thereby precluding a direct appeal. Such could include, for example, prosecutorial misconduct, ineffective assistance of counsel or newly discovered evidence.
Representation for Wide Range of Appealable Issues
With well over 40 years of experience handling criminal appeals and post-conviction/post-judgment motion litigation, Mr. Baker has the ability to quickly identify issues in criminal cases that could potentially result in a successful challenge to the judgment. After reviewing and discussing your case with you, Mr. Baker will determine whether one or more appealable issues exist in your case, or whether a collateral challenge, involving a post-conviction/post-judgment motion might be successful. Appeals or post-conviction/post-judgment collateral challenges may be based on many grounds, including:
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Prosecutorial Misconduct
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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Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Mr. Baker may be able to identify areas where your trial or plea attorney either acted wrongly or negligently and where, through erroneous advice, failure to properly advise, misrepresentations, or other non-strategic-based decisions, you were deprived of your federal and New York constitutional rights to effective assistance of counsel.
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Newly Discovered Evidence of Innocence
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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Other Grounds For Appeal
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.
The Baker Law Firm For Criminal Appeals, PLLC
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.