Real Estate Developer charged with setting-off explosive device cleared

Denner Pellegrino, LLP attorney Brad Bailey successfully represented a client charged by the United State government with setting off a homemade explosive device at an apartment house in Lovell, MA in 2005.  The client is a real estate developer.  Under one of the charges in the indictment returned by a federal grand jury, the client faced a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 30 years for possessing a destructive device in furtherance of a violent felony.  The Government’s case was wholly circumstantial and the developer’s trial attorneys successfully demonstrated to the jury that rather than establishing the defendant’s guilt, the evidence relied upon the by the government was rife with “reasonable doubt” and, along with evidence uncovered by the defense, actually suggested a number of other suspects had more likely motive to commit the crime than the developer had. 

Result: After less that two hours deliberation, the jury acquitted the developer of all charges.  Attorney Brad Bailey, a partner at Denner Pellegrino, LLP, was assisted in the case by attorney Gary Pelletier.  Also of interest is that this is the third “not guilty” verdict received in federal court by the Denner Pellegrino criminal division lawyers in a period of less than one year.

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