Owners of local gas stations/convenient stores were accused of trafficking in spice (synthetic marijuana). Raids of the businesses resulted in large amounts of the questioned substances and hundreds of thousands of dollars being confiscated. Felony convictions would have resulted in mandatory penitentiary sentences for the owners, forfeiture of hundreds of thousands of dollars and the loss of their businesses.

Marein and Bradley employed the services of prominent national scientists to forensically challenge the science of classifying the spice as a drug analog. After a week-long evidentiary hearing, the trial judge ruled in favor of the defense resulting in the dismissal of all charges and the return of all monies. This case caused the Ohio legislature to enact emergency legislation due to the tactics employed by Marein and Bradley.

Cleveland police vice squad detective was accused of robbing heroin dealers for money and drugs during a drug sting operation. The detective was in possession of his firearm during the operation and, if convicted, faced a mandatory penitentiary sentence.

Marein and Bradley engaged in extensive pre-trial investigation which exposed the witnesses as being unreliable street thugs. After a week-long jury trial, the detective was found NOT GUILTY of all charges.

Black Muslim leader in the 1960’s was charged in the year 2000 for a racially motivated killing that occurred in Cleveland in 1969. Thirty-one years after the shooting, detectives in a cold case unit identified several eyewitnesses to the killing and commenced prosecution.

Marein and Bradley’s pre-trial investigation resulted in the discovery of additional witnesses whose description of the event wholly contradicted the prosecution witnesses and physical evidence. One of the defense witnesses was discovered living in the bayou in Louisiana and was transported to Cleveland by Marein and Bradley. After an emotionally charged two week jury trial, the client was found NOT GUILTY of the killing.

Board certified medical doctor was accused of sexual assault, including attempted rape, of a nurse at a local hospital. The complaining witness testified at trial that she was physically attacked by the doctor in the physician’s lounge on a weekend when few doctors were in the hospital. Numerous nurses were called by the prosecution to describe the emotional reaction of the complaining witness after leaving the lounge.

Marein and Bradley engaged in extensive pre-trial investigation of the complaining witness and learned that the witness had a number of arrests and/or convictions under an alias name. Additional investigation revealed that the witness had serious financial issues which may have been the motivation to manufacture the allegations. These issues were fully developed during an extensive cross-examination of the witness at trial. After a week-long jury trial, the doctor was found NOT GUILTY of all charges. All records relating to the case have since been sealed allowing the doctor to resume his career.

Client, cameraman for a local television station, was charged with simple assault for physically beating teenagers who had trespassed on his property and vandalized his home. For years the client’s home would be vandalized around Halloween by teenagers who were seeking to discover the “Goonies” (large headed creatures who, according to folklore, lived in wooded areas surrounding the client’s home only to appear around Halloween). After coming home in the early evening, the client discovered a dozen teenagers breaking his windows and otherwise mistreating his property. The client chased the teens down, wrestled with one of them and physically dragged the teenager back to his property to summon police. The client was charged with simple assault. Prosecutors demanded that the client spend ten days in jail as his penalty.

Marein and Bradley countered that the client’s actions were justified, but to resolve the case would accept a minor misdemeanor disorderly conduct and pay a $100 fine. The case proceeded to trial by jury in the Chardon Municipal Court where, during jury deliberation, the prosecutor offered to reduce the charge to a minor misdemeanor of disorderly conduct. The client received a penalty of $100.

Wholesale supplier of convenient type grocery items, including extensive tobacco products, was accused in a 100 plus count indictment for participation in a large scale tax fraud scheme. Charges included tax evasion, tampering with records, obstruction of justice and money laundering. Client was alleged to have understated sales, prepared fraudulent tax returns and manipulated business records. Marein and Bradley countered at trial that the investigation was flawed as based upon cooperating witnesses who themselves engaged in extensive criminal activities and who were cooperating with the government to avoid prosecution. After a two-week jury trial, client was found NOT GUILTY of over 100 felony counts. Client was convicted. of two petty misdemeanor counts which Marein and Bradley appealed. Court of Appeals vacated the two misdemeanor convictions resulting in client being completely exonerated of all charges.