Criminal Defense Attorney
It has been almost a year since I drank last. Last year about this time, I drove drunk with my daughter in the car. A truly horrific action for anyone with a heart or brain. I took a major, unnecessary risk with my child and my child means everything to me. The situation could have turned incredibly bad. I could be mourning a death. For that miracle, I am truly grateful. I know I am an alcoholic and I see how little control I have when I am drinking. A year ago, I got off track, I relapsed. And it could have cost my child's life or someone else's. This is something I think about everyday. On June 22nd I entered private counseling and began attending AA. And on June 22nd of this year I will celebrate a year of sobriety with fizzy water and a cupcake! I am writing to you because I am truly grateful for your guidance in my legal matters. I was facing serious jail time and I could have been away from my family for a seriously long time. I am grateful that you believed in me enough to help negotiate a very minimum sentence. I am so very grateful that I was able to spend the last year with my family. I would have missed too many soccer games and swim meets and not been able to help with any homework or school projects. My sister is also 7 months pregnant now. If I was in jail, I would have never been able to hear my niece's heartbeat or go to doctor's appointments or feel my niece kick in my sister's belly. Thank you. Thank you for being a key aspect in my recovery and turn around. Without you, I would have never been able to put my life in the right direction. Thank you for all that you have done and continue to do.
Mark Wieczorek returned to private practice as a criminal defense attorney in 2009. Mark has secured acquittals in dozens of felony and misdemeanor cases for charges ranging from drug possession and OVI to aggravated robbery, drug trafficking, arson, and rape. He has extensive experience with the discovery phase of criminal cases, which aids him in developing successful litigation strategies for his clients.
Mark's valuable experience provides the insight and vision necessary to understand how a client’s case will make its way through the court system. His prosecutory knowledge and training, allows him to analyze and assess each case to determine where the weak points of the State’s case are and how to best exploit them. In addition, he will identify his cases' strongest points, from a defense standpoint, and develop a theory of litigation to convey them to a judge or jury.
As a criminal defense attorney, Mark has successfully argued numerous motions to suppress based on probable cause to stop, probable cause to arrest, and violations of the defendant’s Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. He has won numerous appeals pertaining to the Administration License Suspension and has had a number of field sobriety tests suppressed.