Mr. Conway had a nice result in Washington DC this week. It was an officer case involving a positive urinalysis for Percocet (oxymorphone). We originally turned down Captain’s Mast and demanded a court-martial. The jury found the client not guilty of wrongfully using oxymorphone.
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