Jersey City, NJ
Criminal defense Lawyer at Jersey City, NJ
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI ... +3 more
OUTCOME: Dismissed
Our client was charged with a second offense for DWI within 10 years and was facing a mandatory two year loss of license. We were able to get the DWI charges dismissed in their entirety. The client los ... t his license for only 90 days for failure to maintain his lane on the highway.
OUTCOME: Dismissed
Our client was charged with a 3rd offense DWI & Refusal and was facing a 20 year suspension of his license and 6 months of mandatory county jail. At trial I was able to argue that the charges be dismis ... sed in their entirety based on lack of prosecution as the State could not produce essential witnesses.
OUTCOME: Dismissed
Our office recently represented a client in a final restraining order hearing based on allegations brought against him by his ex-wife, the plaintiff, in a temporary restraining order. The two had been ... divorced for a number of years but still interacted because they had three shared children together from the previous marriage. The ex-wife had alleged that our client had harassed her through text messages and then assaulted her during a child drop off meeting. At trial, our attorneys cross examined the plaintiff and pulled out inconsistencies and misrepresentations in her testimony of the alleged events. Moreover, in support of our client’s defense, we presented evidence to support his innocence and future challenge the plaintiff’s testimony. After a two day trial, the judge ruled that the facts did not warrant a final restraining order to be put in place and she dismissed the temporary restraining order previously set against our client. The court’s finding was directly supported by the fact they we had successfully challenged the plaintiff’s credibility and the judge did not believe her testimony.
OUTCOME: Dismissed
We recently defended a client had been charged with possession of marijuana after he was caught smoking a blunt at a rest stop off the New Jersey Turnpike. Undercover State Troopers snuck up on him and ... immediately placed him under arrest and confiscated the blunt and marijuana. Once charged, our client faced up to 6 months in jail, suspension of his driver’s license, probation and random drug testing. It appeared to be a cut and dry situation where our client was caught red-handed. However, our client was a registered nurse and could not afford a conviction or even probation as he could very possibly lose his job. So we geared up for a long fight and had the judge sign an order demanding that the state produce the discovery against our client. After months of back and forth, the prosecutor was unable to secure the discovery from the State Police and our attorneys made a motion to dismiss the charges against our client for lack of prosecution. After the judge heard arguments for both sides, he granted our motion and dismissed the charges in entirety. Our client was able to walk out of the courthouse free of all charges and fines.
OUTCOME: Downgraded to Simple Assault
I defended a juvenile client who had been charged and arrested for 1st degree Robbery. The State alleged the following facts; first that our client along with three other accomplices, including his bro ... ther, had confronted the victim in a park while walking home. Then the group of males pushed the victim to the ground and began assaulting him by punching him several times. Then one of the assailants pulled a knife and demanded the victim’s cell phone. The State further alleged, that before it could go any farther, bystanders came to the rescue of the victim and the four assailants fled on foot. The victim was escorted to police headquarters where he was able to identity two of the individuals involved and give descriptions of the other two. Based on the victim’s first hand identification, our client and his brother were both arrested and charged with 1st degree Robbery, 3rd degree Possession of a Weapon for Unlawful Purposes, and 4th Unlawful Possession of a Weapon. The case originally started with custodial (incarceration) offers on the table. But we maintained our client’s “not guilty” plea and began attacking weaknesses in the State’s case against our client. Although the State had a firsthand identification by the victim witness, there was no knife ever found, none of the victim’s property was taken and our client did not make an incriminating statement. Using this information, we prepped the case for trial. On the last status conference before the trial, the State conceded to the deficiencies in their proofs and it was ultimately decided that our client would receive an adjourned disposition and plead guilty to a disorderly persons offense of Simple Assault and all other charges to be dismissed. The adjourned disposition meant that upon a successful completion of probation, the guilty plea would also be dismissed in its entirety, leaving our client with no criminal or juvenile record.