John Salsberg - Attorney At Law

John has significant experience in a broad spectrum of practice areas, including

Criminal Defense

Serious felony trials and dispositions in Superior Court (including murder, drugs, firearms, arson, sexual assaults, violent assaults, robberies, burglaries)
District Court trials and dispositions (including drugs, firearms, larceny, trespass, domestic abuse and restraining orders, operating under the influence cases)
District Court Clerk Magistrate Hearings
Wide range of defenses raised (including mis-identification, alibi, self-defense, lack of intent, diminished capacity, entrapment, necessity defenses, police and prosecutorial exaggeration and misconduct)
Trials and dispositions of serious offenses in U.S. District Courts (including mortgage and medical fraud, firearms, drugs, false statements, and conspiracy cases)
Use of forensic experts (including ballistics, fingerprints, blood splatter, DNA, psychiatric, neuropsychological, neurological, crime scene reconstruction)

Appellate and Post-Conviction

Direct Appeals to the Massachusetts Appeals Court and the Supreme Judicial Court
New Trial (Rule 30) Motions (including claims based on newly discovered evidence and ineffective assistance of trial counsel)
Federal Habeas Corpus Petitions to the federal District Courts
Federal Appeals to the First Circuit Court of Appeals
Petitions for Certiorari to the United States Supreme Court
Motions to Revise and Revoke Sentence

Academic Discipline

Plagiarism, cheating, & other academic misconduct
Alcohol & drug-related transgressions
Strategies to avoid or minimize potential criminal or civil liability
Undergraduate, graduate, medical & law students
Faculty members
Boston area universities, including Harvard, Northeastern, Boston University, Brandeis University, Suffolk University, Emerson College, and Boston College
Title IX allegation defense

Personal injury

Civil Litigation