A senior at a university received a notice of an alleged violation of his school’s student code of conduct related to a sexual encounter that he had during his freshman year. The complainant alleged that Attorney Griffis’s client sexually assaulted her in his dorm room. Given the serious nature of the allegations he was facing,…
Attorney Darren Griffis appeared before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”), representing a client who was subjected to pretrial detention for weeks without an attorney. Attorney Griffis argued that the detention violated the client’s rights to counsel and to due process under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and under the…
Attorneys James Gribouski and Darren Griffis successfully defended a 49-year-old native of Worcester, who was facing charges that he raped his step-daughter. The client was charged with one count of aggravated rape, along with two counts of indecent assault and battery, two counts of assault and battery, and two counts of witness intimidation. Attorneys Gribouski…
November 25, 2019, Worcester District Court, Worcester, MA In October 2018, a 29-year-old man from Grafton was stopped at 3:30 a.m. at a gas station in Worcester based on a Massachusetts State Police Trooper’s belief that he was speeding. The client had been watching the Red Sox World Series game that lasted 18 innings at…
