Attorney Tami Lynn Mitchell's Legal Cases

Criminal defense

Master Sergeant Keeps Job

May 17, 1999

OUTCOME: Separation board withdrawn by command

An Army Master Sergeant (E8) faced an administrative separation board for wrongful use of a controlled substance. She accidentally took her child's Ritalin medication. She used to put each family mem ... ber's medication and vitamin supplements in Dixie cups, but one morning, in a rush to get to work, she mistakenly grabbed her child's Dixie cup instead of hers. Without proof she knowingly ingested her child's Ritalin medication, her command could not administratively separate her.

Criminal defense

Evidence Suppressed, Charges Dropped in Junk Mail Theft Case

Apr 21, 1999

OUTCOME: Charges dismissed

Client was a throat cancer survivor and mail clerk for his unit. A postal inspector decided to test the integrity of the postal system by sending a magazine to a fictitious resident. He honed in on m ... y client when my client mailed in a subscription card in the magazine. The postal inspector and CID agents raided the mail room. The CID agents involved in the raid placed my client in custody, then interrogated him without advising him of his rights. The CID agents then coerced my client into "consenting" to a search of his barracks room, where they found more junk mail, the kind of junk mail people usually throw away without reading it, or mail addressed to "current resident." We filed a motion to suppress all the evidence, due to the violation of my client's Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights. The military judge agreed with us and suppressed all the evidence. Without any evidence, the government had no choice but to drop the charges.

Tami Lynn Mitchell's Legal Cases (32)

Master Sergeant Keeps Job

Evidence Suppressed, Charges Dropped in Junk Mail Theft Case