Emma C Scanlan

Emma was great from our first meeting. She gathered all all the details of my case without being judgmental and was real honest about my options. She worked hard at negotiating the best outcome for me while still being realistic about the circumstances of my case. Her knowledge of the system and ...the respect she has earned from people within the system certainly helped my cause. She told me early on that she will always prepare me for things to come, and that there would be no surprises and she was true to her word. I don't plan to ever need an attorney again, but I would not hesitate recommending her to anyone I know needing representation.

Emma worked extremely hard and was completely dedicated in getting my husband an extremely fair sentence. Our house was raided by the DEA, taking my husband into Federal Custody charged with a Marijuana Conspiracy, and facing a 10 year mandatory minimum sentence. When we went to the bail hearing the ...prosecuting attorney was against releasing him on pretrial, with very little time if any for her to review the Discovery she stood in front of the Judge and argued the reasoning that my husband was not a threat to society nor a flight risk, successfully she was able to get him released. I don't know what we would've possibly done had she not been able to get him released on Pre-Trial. To have the Father of my children and the income provider held from us for what turned out to be almost a 2 year Pre-Trial would've been emotionally and financially devastating. Being new to the court system we were very thankful to always have her available, understanding and most important fighting for our family's best interest. As the case progressed and to see the other defendants sentences handed down ranging between 11 to 14 years terrified us, thankfully she was able to get my husband’s mandatory minimum down from 10 years to 5 years, this was great progress. As we approached the sentencing date she let us know that she had convinced the Prosecuting Attorney to go below the 5 year minimum but was still unsure where the Prosecutor was going to come in with his recommendation. Our big day arrived and the Prosecutor was recommending 48 months on the Marijuana Conspiracy, this was good news, and much better than 11 to 14 years like the other defendants received! Emma had mentioned to us the Prosecutor could enhance the crime due to the other "illegal actions" my husband committed during the investigation of the Conspiracy, and she was right as he did so on the day of sentencing. The Prosecutor wanted the Judge to add another 20 months to the recommended 48 months. My heart dropped, my husband admitted to the other illegal action earlier in the Plea hearing and we were now looking at a sentence over 6 1/2 years. Emma impressed me throughout this entire case she never over promised us anything, she is always up front and honest, not telling us what we wanted to hear, she prepared us for anything that could happen. I was especially impressed the day of sentencing in how prepared she was for the prosecutor aggressively pushing for the 20 month enhancement, by providing the Judge with other similar cases in proving the enhancement was not relevant to our case was amazing! When the Judge sentenced my Husband to 33 months and granted our request of the RDAP program, my Husband, Myself and all our Friends and Family that attended the sentencing were shocked with joy and relief! I can say without doubt had we gone with another Attorney my family would be without a father and a husband for a much longer than 33 months. Emma also stepped in when my husband was denied the year off incentive given with the RDAP program (residential drug abuse program), her and her associate were able to get the decision overturned within a very short period of time. The RDAP Director has only seen a handful of people get the decision overturned as his prior case from years back was precluding him from the time off. Thanks to Emma and her staff my husband will be incarcerated for 11 months 15 days.