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Phone: (215) 963-5513

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Criminal Defense
Dennis J. Cogan said the 55-month sentence imposed on his client Vince Fumo Tuesday was the next best thing. Cogan, one of the city’s top criminal defense lawyers, said it wasn’t about winning or losing at that point. The prosecution had already won. What it was about, Cogan said, was “justice. ”
Sex Crimes
Based on CM’s investigations, Cogan presented a report to the D.A. by a nationally prominent criminalist which completely discredits crucial fiber matches supposedly found by the state’s forensic trial expert, Bog Shaler. This same prosecution expert has long since admitted to being a complete fraud. Cogan also disclosed the previously unknown fact that several witnesses and the police had initially identified another suspect as the true culprit based on his commission of another similar rape near the same time and area of the attack for which Thomas was wrongfully convicted.
Burglary
"Former 14th District police sergeant Michael J. Vassallo, who was accused of beating a handcuffed burglary suspect, was promptly found "not guilty" in Federal Court. The week long trial, which pitted cops against cops, stemmed from investigations by the city Police Department's Internal Affairs Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation." "Cogan accused the prosecution of handling the case like the Queen in Alice in Wonderland, "Sentence first, verdict second!" he declared. What made them start this case with a conclusion?" Cogan asked.
Misdemeanors
One former federal prosecutor, Cogan said, likened many of the charges to “a series of misdemeanors,” a point that the defense tried to make throughout the trial. Whether, in fact, that kind of argument carried weight with the judge is almost impossible to determine.
Murder
The case has also awakened dark memories of the city's drug wars of the 1990's, when gang lords battled for turf, the murder rate soared and the police seemed powerless to stop the violence.
Homicide
Defense attorneys, in my experience, rarely if ever turn to people who have arrested their client, much less agree to be absent when the client is being interrogated by them. That was the first of several phone calls between Cogan and me, and during one of early ones, he sprang a surprise on me. There was, he said, a problem with an eyewitness sketch used against Ferber at his trial. The Homicide Bureau, for which I worked, had fabricated it, he charged, in effect railroading Ferber to the electric chair. His was as serious an accusation against the police as can be made, as he must have been aware. At the moment, I assumed—rightly, I think—that he was telling me this in order to test me. If knowing that he was charging my fellow officers with misconduct was going to make me back off, he wanted to know it; I'd almost certainly find out eventually anyway, as the allegation was part of the posttrial heraing record. But I also now think Cogan was acting in accordance with his character, as I learned it to be. In all my dealings with him, he acted with absolute integrity. With him you need no bond, his word will do; he never lies. He was going to be open with me, and if I was open in return with him, a relationship of trust was possible. So he was testing my openness, too. I said: Dennis, I'm going to look at the evidence but that's all I'm going to do. I'm not going to investigate the investigators. That would be a certain way to grind everything to a halt right away.”
Money Laundering
Kidnapping
Before that second case was finished, prosecutors brought more sweeping charges against Mr. Drayton and other members of what they called his "empire." They asserted that the gang defended a lucrative cocaine business through intimidation, kidnapping and assassination -- including the 1995 execution of a rival drug dealer and three friends while they played Nintendo in a Pallas Street row house.

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