Mikayla Martin Case Results: State v. A.K.
A.K. had five open dockets for aggravated drug trafficking charges, one of which was a federal charge, and all of which he was facing mandatory minimum sentences of no less than 4 years in state prison. To complicate matters, A.K. was out on bail from a different state for a drug trafficking charge when he committed the drug charges here in Maine.
If the other state learned that he’d committed these new crimes while out on bail, the repercussions would have added another decade onto his out-of-state charges.
Attorney Richard and I drafted a Motion to Suppress evidence and a Motion for Discovery Sanctions that resulted in the client’s federal case being dismissed, and enabled Attorney Bly to negotiate a global resolution where A.K. pled guilty to only two counts of aggravated trafficking in scheduled drugs, one count of unlawful possession of scheduled drugs, three counts of violation of condition of release, and criminal forfeiture for an agreed upon sentence of twelve years, all but five and a half years suspended, with four months credit for time served, and four years of probation, plus the mandatory minimum fines.
Furthermore, it was agreed that once A.K. was sentenced in his out of state case, the Maine sentence would run concurrent with that sentence. We were able to keep the prosecutor’s office in the dark in both states about the competing criminal charges, which ensured that his overall liability remained at 5 ½ years in prison. His potential liability in both states, were they have to learned about the other charges, exceeded twenty years in prison.
