People v. GS
Client was charged with Felony Possession of a Controlled Substance. The case was dismissed at the Preliminary Hearing Stages.
People v. IT
Our Client was charged with Felony Possession of a Controlled Substance. The police alleged that they stopped our Client's vehicle because he blew a stop sign. When they ran our Client's license, the learned that it was suspended. The arrested our Client for driving on a suspended license. A subsequent search revealed that our Client was in possession of Cocaine. All felony charges were dismissed a the Preliminary Hearing.
People v. DD
Client was charged with multiple counts of Felony Armed Robbery - Personal Discharge of a Firearm, Armed Robbery - Firearm, Aggravated Discharge of a Firearm and Aggravated Battery. Our Client was facing 26 - 50 years in prison if convicted. It was alleged that our Client had a dispute with another individual over money. During the dispute, our Client allegedly beat a Victim with a pipe and robbed him at gun point of $600. Then our Client allegedly robbed an innocent bystander of $200 after pistol whipping him. There were gruesome photographs of a bloody scene, a bloody pipe and bloody injured victims. However, there were no photographs of guns, bullets, bullet holes or gunshot wounds. The prosecutors offered a deal for double digits (approximately 15 years). We rejected this insulting offer and went to trial. At trial, the Victim of the alleged pipe beating admitted to drinking and smoking pot the day in question and the night before. He admitted that he never saw who allegedly took his money or where the pipe came from. His story regarding his actions immediately after the beating was different from other witnesses. Another witness admitted that she ran into a bedroom and hid in a closet so she didn't see anything. Although she initially told the prosecutors that our Client had a gun, her testimony crumbled after cross examination and she admitted that she never even saw a gun. Furthermore, she said that it was the other alleged innocent bystander victim who initially had the pipe - not our Client. The police failed to perform a gun shot residue test on our client or the room where the shooting allegedly took place. The forensic scientist admitted that she completely ignored some of the evidence submitted by the police - she didn't even open the evidence envelope. In the end, there could only be one verdict...NOT GUILTY!
People v. JA
Our Client was charged with Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse. He was facing a significant prison sentence and have to register as a sex offender. It was alleged that our Client pinned his teenage step daughter down on the bed and got on top of her rubbing his erect penis between her legs. The child's mother allegedly walked in before things went any further. The prosecution made several offers to resolve the case without going to trial, but they all included our Client having to register as a sex offender. We rejected the offers and took the case to trial. At trial we were able to prove inconsistencies in the child's and mother's stories. We showed the Court that the story began as one thing and evolved to something worse each and every time is was retold. Our Client was found Not Guilty!
People v. AR
Client was charged with Felony Possession of a Controlled Substance. The Police were investigating a call of a man walking down the street yelling obscenities. They claim that our Client matched the description of the man and they tried to speak with him. It was at this point that the Police say that our Client attempted to swallow what they believed to be drugs. The Police claim that our Client voluntarily spit the drugs out (the same ones he was allegedly trying to hide by swallowing) but our client said they choked him to recover the narcotics. All charges were dismissed at the Preliminary Hearing.
People v. FP
Client was charged with Possession of 2000 - 5000 Grams of Cannabis with Intent to Deliver. The Police intercepted an overnight delivery package addressed to our Client at UPS. The package contained 10 lbs of Cannabis. The Police formed a plan to engage in an undercover operation to deliver the package. Officers planted an electronic monitoring device inside the package. Then an Undercover Officer posing as a UPS worker attempted to deliver the package to our Client. When no one answered the door the package was left on the porch. Eventually, our Client came out and retrieved the package. The device inside the package alerted the Officers that the package was opened and they forced entry into our Client's house. Allegedly, the Cannabis had been removed and our Client was in the middle of a drug deal with another individual. The Police claimed that our Client confessed to trying to deliver the Cannabis. The main problem with the prosecution's case was that even though the Police went through all the trouble of intercepting the package, having a narcotics dog check it for drugs, obtaining one warrant to open it, fixing it with an electronic monitoring device, obtaining another search warrant for our Client's house, creating an undercover operation and executing that operation - all within the span of a couple of hours - the Police never video recorded the sting operation! The Police never recorded our Client's alleged confession. They didn't even bother to write it out in crayon and have our Client sign it. We took our case to Jury Trial, and when asked why there wasn't any video surveillance footage, the officer claimed that his unit was not provided with the necessary equipment to record the operation. When pressed about why, in this day and age of cell phones, was this incident not recorded in some way? The Officer claimed he didn't know how to use his cell phone and didn't know if any of the other officers knew how to use their phones. The Jury clearly saw through this gaping hole in the case and the verdict was NOT GUILTY!!!
People v. CJ
Client was charged with Felony Manufacturing and Delivery of a Controlled Substance. The Police alleged that they received information from a source that a person matching our Client's description was about to arrive in the area in a vehicle that matched our Client's vehicle and conduct a drug transaction. The police officers then claimed that when our Client arrived in his vehicle a passenger got into the vehicle. It was at this point that the Police broke their surveillance position and allegedly parked right next to our Client. They claim that after they parked right next to our Client, a hand to hand transaction took place. They never saw our Client give anything to the passenger. They never found any narcotics on our Client. The passenger allegedly threw some narcotics on the ground as the police got out of their vehicle. The prosecutors were offering several years in prison as a deal. We rejected that deal and beat the case at trial!
People v. DG
Our Client was charged with DUI. Police claim that they responded to a call of a person asleep at the wheel, facing the wrong way, in oncoming traffic. When they arrived at the scene, Officers claim that our Client was unable to say away, smelled strongly of alcohol and had open alcohol inside his vehicle. At the police station our Client allegedly failed the standardized field sobriety tests which were administered, and he refused to submit to a breathalyzer test. By refusing to submit to the breathalyzer test, our Client's license was automatically, summarily suspended by the Secretary of State. We filed a Petition to Rescind the Statutory Summary Suspension. On the hearing date, the prosecution agreed to rescind the suspension and offer our Client supervision. Not only was our Client able to avoid a conviction on his record, he was able to begin driving immediately after court!
People v. MM
Our Client was charged with a DUI. Because he refused to take a breath test, his license was summarily suspended by statute and he was not permitted to drive. We demanded a hearing to rescind that Statutory Summary Suspension. At the hearing, the prosecution failed to meet their burden of proof and our request to have our Client's driving privileges reinstated was granted. The Statutory Summary Suspension was granted!
People v. GG
Our Client was charged with Driving on a Revoked or a Suspended License. His license was suspended for failure to pay child support. According to our Client, he never received any notice that his license was suspended and did not know that it was suspended. The prosecution was initially offering jail time. After retaining our services, our firm zealously advocated on behalf of our Client over several court dates. We eventually set the case for trial. Because the prosecution realized how serious we were, they changed their tune the day of trial. We were able to negotiate a deal that avoided any additional jail time for our Client.
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