28
Sep
2017
2017
Two Charges Dismissed, Small Fine for the Third My client had too many drinks at a downtown bar and went to an after-party close by at his friend’s apartment. He stepped outside the apartment building to have a cigarette, and went back into the building. Tipsy, he accidentally entered the apartment wrong apartment, and [Read More]
28
Sep
2017
2017
Case Was Thrown Out A former client of mine caught another case. The last time I represented him, he was the victim of a violent and hate-motivated attack in a bar yet he was charged because he was a minority in generally white, townie bar. He wanted to fight the case and dug his [Read More]
28
Sep
2017
2017
Felony Charge Dismissed My client had been a registered sex offender for a very long time. When he was 18, he had sex with a girl he thought was of age because she looked 18 and said she was 18. She was not. She was 14. Her parents found out,he was charged and convicted of statutory [Read More]
28
Sep
2017
2017
Acquitted My client was accused of drunk driving, second offense, and had his life turned upside down. The charge alone is not a conviction of course, but it may feel like it to the accused because but the presumption of innocence doesn’t prevent the charge from causing tremendous stress, limitations of opportunities, and other hardships. [Read More]
28
Sep
2017
2017
Cases Will Be Dismissed The Northwestern District Attorney’s office has a forward-thinking drug diversion program that gives young people with limited records an opportunity to get into drug treatment and get their case taken out of the criminal system. Recently, I got two clients into this program. After completing an intensive recovery program, their cases [Read More]