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.
Maggie received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at Rutgers College and her law degree from Touro Law Center. During her time at Rutgers, she was a four-year letterwinner, receiving an athletic scholarship as a member of the Women’s Lacrosse Team. She lives in Suffolk County with her husband and two children.