Maggie Bopp served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Suffolk
County District Attorney’s Office from August 2010 until March
2023. As a prosecutor, Maggie hit the ground running, prosecuting a
wide variety of crimes. Maggie’s talent was quickly recognized,
and she was soon promoted to the intensive and challenging Vehicular
Crime Bureau, a bureau that specializes in vehicular homicides and
cases wherein serious physical injury resulted from a defendant’s
drug or alcohol use. In her role as a felony prosecutor, Maggie
prosecuted the most serious and complicated vehicular offenses, such
as Aggravated Vehicular Homicide, Manslaughter in the Second Degree,
and Leaving the Scene of an Incident Without Reporting, Resulting in
Death.
Vehicular
prosecutions are investigative in nature. Accordingly, Maggie
routinely wrote hundreds of intricate search warrants, focusing her
investigative prowess on blood evidence, trace and biological
evidence, event data recorders, In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI)
systems, cellular telephones, a variety of social media accounts, and
email accounts for evidence contained therein. In addition, she was
responsible for writing multiple historical cell-site search warrant
orders and pen register and trap & trace data and geographic
location information search warrant orders (known as “pen-ping”
warrant orders) for individuals suspected of vehicular-related
crimes.
Additionally, for
eight years, Maggie responded to crime scenes of crashes where either
serious injury or fatalities arose as a result of suspected
criminality. She was a lead trial attorney in multiple high-profile
felony cases in Suffolk County, including the 2015 conviction of an
individual responsible for the death of a newspaper delivery woman in
a DWI crash; the 2017 conviction of an individual responsible for the
death of two children and their father in a DWI/Leaving the Scene
crash on the Southern State Parkway; the 2020 conviction of a woman
responsible for the death of a Suffolk County gang activist; and the
2021 conviction of an individual responsible for killing a father of
four and seriously injuring a father of one in a DWI crash.
Maggie has also been
involved in training and instruction to an extensive audience,
including high school students and law enforcement personnel. She
has been a coordinator and instructor for the “Choices and
Consequences” program since 2015, which is designed to educate high
school students on the dangers of drunk, drugged, and distracted
driving. She has provided multiple trainings to prosecutors on the
topics of Vehicular Crimes, DWI Prosecutions, Summations, Hearing and
Trial Training, Expert Witnesses, Vehicular Crime Case from
Inception, Evidentiary Foundations, and Search Warrants. She has
also provided numerous trainings to sworn law enforcement officers,
which trainings included MedCat and Blood Warrants, Advanced Criminal
Investigations, and DWI Prosecutions for Law Enforcement.
Maggie was the
recipient of the Mothers Against Drunk Driving (“MADD”)
Recognition of Excellence Award for the deterrence of impaired
driving in New York in 2016 and the Suffolk County District
Attorney’s Trial Excellence Award in 2020.