NJ Marijuana Defense: The Practice of New Jersey Criminal Defense Lawyer Allan Marain

Introduction

New Jersey Criminal Defense Lawyer Allan Marain: marijuana, drugs Allan Marain has successfully defended clients in countless cases involving marijuana charges. These cases have ranged from nickel bags in municipal court, to many pounds of marijuana involving jury trials in the Superior Court of New Jersey.

Trial Experience

Allan has been a member of the New Jersey and federal bars since 1976. During most of that time, he was in private practice. Criminal defense, especially as it relates to drug charges, has always been a predominant feature of that practice. Between 1989 and 1997, Allan served as a staff attorney with the Office of the Public Defender, Middlesex Trial Region. In that nine-year period, his exclusive assignment was criminal defense. He tried numerous indictments in the Superior Court of New Jersey, usually in front of juries.

Bar Admissions

Allan is admitted to practice before all New Jersey State Courts, and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Also the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the United States Tax Court, and the United States Supreme Court.

Activities in Professional Organizations

Allan is a member of the Legal Committee of NORML (National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws). He has attended all of its annual legal seminars in Key West, Florida, since 2001, attending most recently in December 2007. Allan helped found NORML-NJ. He was one of its incorporators, and now serves as its Legal Defense Coordinator.

Allan belongs to the New Jersey State Bar Association, where he is immediate past chair of its Criminal Law Section. He is a past chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Municipal Court Practice Section. He also belongs to its Federal Practice Section. On May 19, 2006, Allan delivered a lecture to the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey State Bar Association, in Atlantic City. His topic was, Courtroom Challenges to Laboratory Identification of Marijuana.

Allan is also a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey. He completed a three-year term as trustee of the Middlesex County Bar Association. He is on the Middlesex County Assignment Judge's Criminal Lawyers Committee. The February 2005 "New Jersey Lawyers Magazine," published by the New Jersey State Bar Association, featured Allan's article entitled, "Expungement of Criminal Proceedings."

Academic Information

Allan was graduated with honors in 1976 from Seton Hall University School of Law. He has been a guest lecturer at Seton Hall Law School and at Rutgers University. He has also instructed the Skills and Methods Course in Criminal Law for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education.