Welcome to the E-Office of EJ "Jay" Hurst II. 

Mailing Address:  550M Ritchie Highway, PMB 124, Severna Park, Maryland 21146

Telephone:  (859) 361-8000

     Jay Hurst offers a national legal and advocacy practice that advises defense attorneys and individual Federal defendants about sentencing, custody, and post-release consequences of criminal conviction.   He offers experience at all levels of criminal prosecutions, from misdemeanor to capital offenses, at every prosecution stage from pre-charging and plea negotiations to post-conviction challenges.  Mr. Hurst limits his legal practice and defendant representation to United States courts and Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) inmates, but will gladly discuss State sentence mitigation with authorized local attorneys. 

     Besides criminal sentencing defense and a variety of inmate representations, Mr. Hurst also regularly seeks records for private clients and the public's interest from the Federal Government under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Privacy Act.  For a sampling of this FOIA work, please see Mr. Hurst's BOP FOIA Project here . 

     Mr. Hurst is authorized for full, regular practice before the State Courts of Maryland and the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.  He has also been authorized to represent criminal defendants in numerous other United States District Courts on a pro hac vice ("in this case") basis.  See his C.V. here .

     Specific services provided include:

• Providing detailed Federal and State defendant histories, with creative sentencing and post-release alternatives;
• Calculating and mitigating Federal sentences under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1987, including under the advisory United States Sentencing Guidelines (“U.S.S.G.”) and with non-Guidelines statutory arguments;
• Assisting Federal defendants and attorneys with post-sentencing custody issues, including Federal Bureau of Prisons security classifications, facility designation and transfers, drug abuse treatment and other programming requests, and administrative inmate remedies;
• Assisting Federal requests for supervision transfer and early Supervised Release termination;
• Litigating post-conviction challenges to the legality of Federal conviction or sentence (Motions under 28 United States Code, Section 2255), or conditions of confinement (Petitions for Habeas Corpus under 28 United States Code, Section 2241);
• Seeking Federal Executive Branch records under the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act.

     Mr. Hurst provides quality services at competitive rates, and will be happy to discuss your needs by telephone or email (jayhurst@jayhurst.net), with and in complete confidence.  Whether you retain his services, though, you need qualified and experienced help if facing sentencing or other criminal matters. 

This is an advertisement for legal and other services.  Nothing on this Website constitutes, or may be construed as, legal advice.