Criminal Defense Consultants | Federal Case Strategists
The Q|Nav logo represents the criminal defendant and his loved ones - the underdog Seabiscuit mounted in the sail of a small boat which no longer drifts at the whim of the wind. A disruptor with singular purpose, Q|Nav brings Quantum power to society's least powerful human beings - the defendant and his loyal advocates. One goal - WIN your freedom, your early liberty. We have the best criminal defense lawyers, the best researchers, the best investigators, the best experts - staff and contract consultants. Importantly, we have walked in your shoes, in your family's shoes. Please take a closer look at us. We stand ready and excited to meet you and build your pathway home. Learn About Our ServicesContact Us About Your CaseLIBERTY
Who we are
About Our Criminal Defense Advocacy Team
We have been where you are, we know how this works. We know the limitations of the judicial process and the law. We fight for you and your family through all three branches of the state and federal criminal defense system, but we don’t stop there.
Judicial, Executive, Legislative branches separate and apart from each other equals the enemy of true justice. We are the only group anywhere who integrates every possible decision maker in criminal cases who can green light our client’s early release.
This unique approach – pairing our team with your criminal defense attorneys across all three branches – translates into extraordinary success where others fail.
Winning Your Liberty is All That Matters
Q|Nav’s major achievements January 2026 thru August 15th 2026
August 16th- 31st 2026 Official Performance audit
Q|Nav’s affiliate firm Restore | Rekindle NFP is fully funded, organized with big plans
Overview
Thank you for taking a look at the exciting news from our sister organization, Restore | Rekindle, NFP.
First, please refresh your knowledge of our work with adolescent and juvenile defendants through our Q6 and Q7 portals within this website.
After months of thinking, researching, and storyboarding, we have unanimously agreed on one central truth.
- The true key to achieving genuine restorative justice is to eliminate or greatly reduce the need for it in the first place.
- As with many long-range planning precepts, preventative hard work is the sustainable fix for systemic youth offenses and organized gang activity.
- Education and visual storytelling about actual families, victims, authorities, the TRUTH about what the future will be for the potential offender – defendant, his family, the victim(s), their families, the village, town, and people network.
- Often, the criminal behavioral element starts with a disregard for self-awareness including sometimes real narcissism and sociopathy.
- In landmark restorative justice experiments with real victimizers and real victims – the actual one on one experiences drive home two gigantic truths.
- First, the offender’s introspection is off base – way too often “me” centric. This means that the offender sometimes believes that he is the victim of a family, a society, a pre-set environment which caused his behavior to act out his fears and beliefs.
- Second, the offender has no interest or clue about the consequences – often lifetime results of his actions not only for his life but the countless lives of victims – representing the ripple multiplier effect.
- Solution. There is no doubt whatsoever that unless an offender is clinically schizophrenic, when presented with the absolute probable consequences for him, his loved ones, and the victim, his/her loved ones, massive change occurs.
- Here’s what we mean. What came first? The crime or the prophecy?
- Here’s the answer. Beginning at the middle school level, it is mandatory for all public school systems to provide restorative justice models, visual stories, real – life physical visits which PROVE to the young person what his day-to-day life will be once he acts out his fantasies or indulgences. Second, show this young potential victimizer what really happens to the person(s) he victimizes and the extraordinary, forever impact upon them.
- Finally, SHOW these kids what they really could be, what they really could become if they apply themselves to productive work and human growth. In other words, don’t simply tell and show and prove “why not” but tell and show and prove “why yes” “what else.”
Now, we have a template to build on. Until youth who are predisposed to criminal activity get forcefed the present value terror of their futures, their victim(s) futures, nothing will ever change. Q|Nav and Restore | Rekindle are leading the charge to change the entire fundamentals of the juvenile justice system by staying out and never entering.
Final thought: We also join our friends, clients, and societal leaders who are on the forefront nationally, to eliminate 100% the possibility for direct file charging and adjudicating juveniles in adult courts.
What We Do: Criminal Defense & Post-Conviction Guidance
We offer end-to-end support as you navigate the criminal justice system across the United States.
Pre-Trial and Pre-Plea Defense Attorney Coordination
We provide abundant preparation regarding non-legal and traditional avenues of pretrial and pre-plea criminal defense strategic planning, working alongside your criminal defense attorney and law team every step of the way, from the first charges to the final plea decision.
Conviction, Sentencing & Defense Attorneys Coordination
We streamline the trial, conviction, and sentencing process for the defendant and his or her family, coordinating closely with criminal defense counsel to minimize stress, confusion, and the risk of excessive penalties.
Prison Preparation and Facility Navigation
We help new inmates and their families with prison preparation before surrender, then navigate the complicated and often confusing facility rules, chain of command, and correctional law.
Pre-Release, Post-Release & Federal Defense Legislative Support
We’ll guide you through parole/probation meetings, securing a job and housing, transportation alternatives, criminal defense record considerations, and more, long after your case closes.
First, a refresher about us – what makes Q|Nav special.
We are NOT a traditional law firm and our founder Will Hoover is NOT a lawyer. At first glance this might seem a bit strange or problematic, but the opposite is true. Our unique structure is the winning formula. As a special criminal defense and postconviction strategic advisor for high-stakes criminal matters, we can negotiate and make deals for our clients without normal roadblocks.
Q|Nav was founded on a simple premise. Even the best, most caring criminal defense lawyers need help and a lot of it navigating the client’s big picture across the criminal legal system. Postconviction charging and sentencing relief victories are not just about legal matters – they are life, reputation, liberty, and legacy battlefields for the defendant and loved ones. Q|Nav drives smarter, faster, more coordinated, and far less expensive decisions with or without lead private or public counsel. Remember our one goal: Winning your early release.
Finally, a simple reality cannot be overlooked. Our founder and principal, Will Hoover has lived your life. He has lived the life of a criminal defendant. He has lived the life of a loved one. He’s been the dad, the son, the grandpa, the brother, the breadwinner, the friend. He’s lived your dreams and he has achieved the success you’re seeking.
2025 was a Watershed year for Q|Nav and Restore | Rekindle
Overview
As we continue to grow and gain national experience, our success where it counts the most is unprecedented.
We accepted postconviction work assignments that tested our strengths while stretching the traditional envelopes of achievement. Our ClubQ platforms were designed intentionally for a pause – a pause for greatness while we explored the possible blends of people, traditional techniques, and rapidly developing generative AI models.
Speaking of AI think about this. Imagine that we have captured the utility of our primary legal source – Westlaw Edge/Precision and its stand alone gen AI tool, CoCounsel. When coupled with a “challenge test” created by Q|Nav’s IT team, with Grok, ClaudeCode, Gemini, and ChatGPT, giving their best, the results are beyond belief. Not to write documents, but to research and for the deepest possible data mining – sentencing proportionality and statutory charging are exposed like never before. Vital data in seconds not weeks. Accurate and ready for dissemination.
We now believe that this blend – this synergy of people and databases – merging with hard work and creativity are here right now for new levels of client success. Particularly in the fields of statutory charging (state and federal), habitual felony offender statutes, jury instructions, expert witness testimony, sentencing consistency/equity, and early medical/extraordinary achievement release(s), Q|Nav has once again reset the goal posts.
Proof is in the numbers. For calendar year 2025, we enjoyed the fruits of hard, smart, and relentless caring work. What this means is that where the rubber meets the road to the extreme, we significantly overachieved. We measure our victories the same way our clients, loved ones, and strategic partners do.
What is our win rate? Our definition of a win rate is matching client objectives with client assignments and ultimate outcomes. Your goals are simple and straightforward. Number one is some form or combination of tools for early release – so called sentencing relief. We know that dozens of day-to-day, mid-range and long-term goals are truly measured one way. Get Home ASAP.
For 2025, we are proud to announce that we averaged one FREEDOM, one LIBERTY achievement per month.
We were blessed with 4 of our clients being released from incarceration after years and sometimes decades of abusive charges, convictions (plea and trial) and sentencing schemes.
Two of these four had LWOP sentences and were proven innocent of their crimes. Actual innocence without giving up one constitutional right for civil litigation.
Every one of our 4 had exhausted every conceivable remedy for relief prior to Q|Nav’s assignment acceptance.
We were further rewarded with a dozen more meaningful sentence reductions on serious charges – 3 of which were essentially commuted to the present time up to another year or so of incarceration.
We became truly expert in the field of early, compassionate, medical release. The BOP and each state’s DOC have wildly differing rules and requirements. One thing they all have in common is the degree of loathing for doing the right thing – where the written mission promises even come close to operational reality. The level of hypocrisy is stunning particularly for the extreme aged and acutely mentally ill populations.
As we have mentioned in our prior years in review, the areas of direct negotiation, unopposed motions, joint motions and similar dealings with the prosecution in criminal cases, are maturing rapidly. Simply put, [non-judicial non-executive] special postconviction plea deals are gaining in utility and popularity nationwide. Certain western states and a few in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic seem to have spearheaded the paradigm shifts for the good and long-term magnificent benefit for defendants – our clients.
Legislative influences. All too often, we find ourselves in serious conversation with legislators at the state level in the attempt to truly decipher the legislative intent of criminal statutes which so often drive the charges and ultimately conviction and sentencing structure for the criminal defendant. It’s incredible to us that the judicial branch regularly abuses and mischaracterizes what the legislatures want. So much so that highly controversial aggravator and enhancement laws such as habitual offender, extreme indifference, and crimes of violence have morphed into unrecognizable – unintelligible vague and ambiguous (often point blank intentionally) weapons for grossly unfair treatment. Meanwhile trial and plea attorneys are either asleep at the wheel, don’t care, or worse – play right into the hands of the prosecutors.
Q|Nav is leading the charge to change this. How? Well for openers, we are insisting on the unthinkable. We are mixing the waters of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government (at the state level). What does that mean? Legislators in court rooms. Governors reading court motions. Prosecutors in prisons. Trial and appeal lawyers in family/loved ones group chats. Judges in mitigation sessions.
The DISRUPTORS of stodgy, slow moving, power monger perennial loser industries of the so-called criminal justice system. We are Q|Nav. We are Restore|Rekindle. We donate 10% of our revenues to worthy victim and offender charitable causes, nationwide.
Exclusive Platform – 2024 IN PERSPECTIVE…2025 IN PROGRESS
Your Q|Nav blew the lid off of 2023’s performance…
First, please take a look at our 2023 in review. We are proud of these achievements, especially those that measure WINNING. In fact to get the full achievements of 2023, we have to look pretty deep into 2024 as many final decisions naturally defer from one year to the next.
For 2024, we shout ClubQ. We shout more WINNING for our loved ones, defendants, inmates, communities, and direct victims.
In July of ’24 we officially launched ClubQ Primary and ClubQ Prime. Right below the 2024 year in review report, you can find the bullet points for both levels of service. As a special bonus, we’re extending an exclusive upgrade opportunity to all Q|Nav friends, family members, and clients. Existing Primary or Prime members can upgrade to Platinum membership without paying the standard upgrade fee.
ClubQ is designed and crafted to provide our families with exactly what they need, when they need it for pennies on the dollar. In fact, our mission and mantra embodies two key themes. Theme 1 is stand alone services offered through Prime. Deliverable? Simple 10:1, 10X value to subscription cost. Theme 2 is stepping stones to Q|Nav assignments and engagements.
In December of 2024, ClubQ, RIGHT IN TIME, RIGHT ON TIME, finalized the third phase of your membership status opportunity: Platinum. Just like Primary and Prime, Platinum is our 10 for 1 newest and highest level of ongoing service for our charter members. Next step? Full blown Q|Nav, LLC professional engagement.
Take a look at Platinum ClubQ and think about your own circumstances. Here’s a snapshot. By the way, we have approved a good incentive plan for our friends to refer Platinum clients. This way you can help your friends and your family all at the same time.
We are pleased to offer our Charter members exceptional value.
- ClubQ Primary Members: $450 for a 6-month membership, $780 for a 1-year membership.
- ClubQ Prime Members: $690 for a 6-month membership, $1200 for a 1-year membership.
- ClubQ Platinum Members: $1250 for a 6-month membership, $2250 for a 1-year membership.
Please Take Notice of our most proud Creation – years in the making, certified in 2020 and now, ready to launch with full power…
Restore | Rekindle, NFP 501(c)(3) – the next generation of Restorative Justice (offender and victim reconciliation), and Restitution for victims.
As soon as the press release and book of causes is ready for release from our attorneys, we will publish everything you will want to know about R | R.
In the meantime, just know that our excitement level is off the charts – once any critic witnesses Real Change, Real Pay Back, Real Pay Forward, Real Restitution, the village required to make this work can’t wait to make a giant splash.
If you’d like to know more about Restore | Rekindle, until we get the link up and operating (still a couple of weeks out), just give us a call, text, or email and we are happy to give you the prelude template. One exciting appetizer: An across the board 10% of gross revenues dedicated 100% intact to victims restitution funding.
By the way, we have another few 2024 achievement announcements. Q|Nav, LLC brought on another two new criminal defendant, post-conviction expert attorneys, one new admin, one new research paralegal, and two new specialized detectives. Our ClubQ top level staff doubled from 2 to 4.
Our ClubQ specialist contractors now include a medical doctor, neuropsychologist, and specialized civil liberties lawyer. Why? Carrot and Stick. Our families – their criminal defendants, deal with serious medical, legal, therapeutic, and mental health matters daily. Often the DOC or BOP simply doesn’t care or possess the skills or facilities to provide adequate services. Carrot is how can we help, please take care of (blank) and confirm within a few days. Stick is either take care of this (blank) within 48 hours or our doctor and lawyer will be in your face, another lawyer will commence legal actions.
Next Big Project: App development. Yes, we want to make all of Q|Nav as easy as a click away. Here we will provide a library of services similar to a criminal law research site or major medical establishment; blended with the personal databases for each client, so we can comfortably offer more and more through automation, especially for the clerical and admin tasks that don’t require deep thought. Right along, we will offer menu driven ala carte basic stuff all the way up to serious negotiation tools. Think about how wonderful it will be for anyone to go to our App and select post-conviction templates – FULL programs for each state system, fed circuit, and DAs, CAs, etc. In fact, we envision literally hundreds of helpful kits so a lot of stuff can be DIY and we just get involved for judgment calls, influence, sharing our referrals, attorney contacts, etc.
So, PLEASE! Help us figure this out by telling us what you would like to see – how you would like to navigate the future Q|Nav, and how ClubQ should best integrate to keep driving costs down, lower and lower.
Our Acceptance Ratio
1:26…1 new client per 26 qualified candidates. We select new client assignments based on ONE qualifier: Is the probability of winning our client’s goals and objectives high enough to embark on this liberty journey together. Is it worth the client’s | loved ones’ money? Is it worth the time and effort? Is it worth a possible disappointment and false hope? Is it worth Q|Nav’s opportunity cost…meaning can we – should we be doing something else yielding better outcomes?
Reminder: We work hard on criminal cases others won’t touch.
We WIN
While there are several, sometimes more competing factors and ultimate client objectives, the only one that has lasting, legacy value is FREEDOM. Nobody – no person, advocate, attorney, or law firm – can match our success numbers. If our case assignments were easy this truth wouldn’t generate much bragging rights. But our success for YOU is really all that matters – and REAL success is LIBERTY.
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Fully-Integrated Criminal Defense Law & Executive Action Remedies
Our knowledgeable and experienced staff will guide you every step of the way through post-conviction state and federal court petitions, clemency/commutation/pardon, early, meritorious and special needs-compassionate parole at the executive level.
We prepare court motions, actions, pleadings, petitions and briefs for defense litigation, which are then submitted through our licensed attorneys. Each of our attorneys works in conjunction with outside consultants and specialists on every other form of remedy at the judicial, legislative, or executive levels, in state and federal jurisdictions alike.
Click the button below to request a free, no-obligation, completely confidential consultation with a member of our team.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Our Criminal Defense Services
What Does a Crime Consultant Do?
A crime consultant works alongside your criminal defense attorney on the strategic, non-legal side of a case, coordinating between the judicial, executive, and legislative branches to pursue the fastest realistic path to release. That can include reviewing the charges, organizing case records, and preparing the family for what comes next.
Can I Get a Free, Confidential Consultation?
Yes. Every prospective client can request a free, no-obligation, completely confidential consultation with a member of our team before any engagement begins.
What Should You Not Tell Your Attorney?
Your conversations with your criminal lawyer are privileged under the law, but vague or exaggerated claims can work against you. Stick to verified facts about the charges and let your attorney and our team guide the strategy from there.
How Do You Choose the Right Defense Team for Your Case?
Look for a team that has “walked in your shoes,” one that integrates legal, medical, and legislative expertise rather than relying on courtroom strategy alone. Ask how many criminal matters like yours they have handled, and how they will work with your attorney.
What Is the Hardest Criminal Case to Beat?
Every case is different, but the hardest criminal cases usually combine strong physical evidence, prior convictions that trigger sentence enhancements, and serious charges built over months by prosecutors. Those are the cases Q|Nav accepts. Working with your attorney, we look for what others missed: errors in the record, sentencing mistakes, and post-conviction paths a trial team may not pursue.
Q|Nav’s Year in Review. 2023
A year overflowing with remarkable results for our clients, families, loved ones, associates, and alliances. Let’s not forget the extraordinary benefits incurred to crime victims, communities, advocate groups, and just about all people and societies that touch the criminal defendant’s universe.
Some of you remember the determined – slow launch of Restore|Rekindle, our approach to genuine restorative justice pursuits which, when done right, benefits victims, offenders, citizenry, facilitators, the judiciary, legislative, and executive branch missions. Last year represented a sort of turning point for R|R as we finally completed the groundwork to launch full bore in Q3 of 2024. As societal norms continue to progress along with medical and behavioral science, the real value potential of R|R is beginning to blossom. Why? On balance, the victim side of the equation is accelerating with understanding the often gigantic mitigating causes of property and violent crimes, rehabilitation, even a type of partnership with the “other side.” Especially within the mental health and juvenile circles, progress has exploded. Criminal offenders too are growing in understanding the ripple effects – the horrific and systemic impacts of their actions…
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