Boston, MA
Criminal defense Lawyer at Boston, MA
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense
OUTCOME: Dismissed
Client was charged with Operating with a Suspended License. The prosecutor said that they would only consider resolving the case ahead of trial if the client decided to plead guilty. Pleading guilty wa ... s unacceptable to the client and the case was scheduled for trial. On the day of trial, Attorney Leon persuaded a judge to dismiss the case.
OUTCOME: Dismissed
Client was charged with Forgery of Checks, Uttering False Checks, and Larceny by Check Over $250 after he was accused of stealing blank checks from another employee at his job and making out the checks ... to himself. Client was charged after a fraud investigation by the State Police Racing Commission Unit. The prosecution was seeking jail time in exchange for a guilty plea given the amount of money lost. Attorney Leon investigated the case and obtained court orders for the underlying bank records and proof of the claimed loss amount. This information would have undermined the credibility of the employee who made these allegations. On the morning of trial, Attorney Leon succeeded in getting all charges dismissed over the prosecutor’s objection due to the prosecutor’s failure to provide any of the court-ordered bank records. The case was dismissed.
OUTCOME: Dismissed
Client was charged with Possession of Heroin and Klonopin after hospital staff found drugs as she was changing into a hospital gown. Police were called and they seized the drugs. Attorney Leon investig ... ated the case and obtained court orders for records from the hospital and drug lab in an effort to challenge the chain of custody of the drugs. Attorney Leon persuaded a judge to dismiss all charges over the prosecutor’s objection after they failed to provide the chain of custody information. The case was dismissed.
OUTCOME: Dismissed
Client was charged for Operating with a Suspended License when police were called after he rear-ended another car. Client admitted to police that his license was suspended. The prosecutor wanted client ... to plead guilty and pay full restitution in exchange for recommending probation because of the amount of damage caused to the other car. However, the prosecutor did not realize that they had summonsed the wrong RMV records to court. Attorney Leon scheduled the case for trial and persuaded a judge to dismiss the case because there was no documentary evidence proving that client’s license was suspended.
OUTCOME: Dismissed
Client was charged with Domestic Assault and Battery after her boyfriend accused her of jumping him two weeks earlier with two other men. Her boyfriend told police that they had argued about money and ... he believed that she had set him up. Client was charged despite the lack of any evidence to support her boyfriend’s claims. Attorney Leon’s investigator spoke to client’s boyfriend who changed his story from what he initially told police. His investigator also spoke to neighbors in the area and they had not seen client’s boyfriend with any injuries suggesting he had been attacked in the manner he described. Attorney Leon was able to get the case dismissed.
OUTCOME: Dismissed
Client was charged with Possession with Intent to Distribute Oxycodone and Operating with a Suspended License after police searched his car. A state trooper decided to run an RMV check on client’s car ... when client was parked in a parking lot. The trooper determined that his license was suspended and told client he would get a summons. The trooper then asked for permission to search and client consented. The trooper found the corner of a plastic bag he believed was consistent with cocaine packaging along with 46 pills of Oxycodone and a large amount of cash. Attorney Leon persuaded a judge to dismiss all charges over the prosecutor’s objection.
OUTCOME: No Violation Found; Probation Terminated and Dismissed
Client was on probation for Larceny Over $250 and received a violation notice from the probation department due to a subsequent arrest for larceny at a department store. The probation department sought ... jail time at client’s surrender hearing. They were relying on hearsay evidence from a store employee who told police that they thought client stole an expensive winter jacket. Attorney Leon persuaded the judge to find that no violation occurred because the hearsay evidence and police reports submitted by probation were insufficiently reliable to prove client had committed a subsequent crime. After the hearing, client’s probation was terminated and the case was dismissed.
OUTCOME: Dismissed
Client was a passenger in a car that was pulled over by police and he was charged with Possession of Heroin after a search. Police saw three people in a car who were nodding off and appeared to be unde ... r the influence of opiates. The police approached and the driver drove off in an attempt to flee. Troopers eventually pulled the car over after a chase and found the drugs on client who then gave police a false name and date of birth. Client then missed court and went into default for 18 months before being arrested on the warrant. Attorney Leon took over the case at that point and was able to get the client released on bail. The prosecutor was seeking jail time unless client wanted to agree to two years of probation in drug court after completing intensive inpatient treatment in exchange for pleading guilty. Neither option was an acceptable resolution so Attorney Leon set the case for trial and was able to get the case dismissed on the morning of trial over the objection of the prosecutor.
OUTCOME: Dismissed
Client was charged with Malicious Destruction of Property after he was accused of slashing a woman’s tires because her boyfriend thought that he was the culprit because they had an argument earlier in ... the day. Client voluntarily spoke to police and denied slashing the tires as well as gave them the names of people to speak with to confirm his alibi; however, he was still charged based on the boyfriend’s assumption. Attorney Leon filed a motion to dismiss the complaint for lack of probable cause on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence presented to the magistrate to identify client as the perpetrator. He persuaded a judge to allow the motion after a hearing and the case was dismissed.
OUTCOME: Pretrial Probation - Case was dismissed after client stayed out of trouble for one year
Client was charged with Larceny Over $250 by False Pretenses after cashing a check for $3,700 at a check-cashing business which ended up bouncing. Client and the business came to an agreement on a paym ... ent plan; however, client did not follow through as he was struggling financially with child support and cash flow issues at his business. Attorney Leon obtained documentation of client’s financial issues and presented them to the prosecutor. The prosecutor then offered client a one-year term of pretrial probation with the condition that he make restitution to the check-cashing business. As a result, the case was dismissed without any admission of wrongdoing by the client.
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