OUTCOME: Following intense pressure by Mr. Kadish, all charges were thrown out.
Client was facing 40+ years of incarceration with no possibility of parole on various narcotic offenses in addition to 5 years incarceration with no possibility of parole on each of two counts of felon...y possession of a handgun (10 additional years total). Law enforcement conducted a search of the client’s vehicle and found two loaded handguns (9mm and 22 caliber), 170 ecstasy pills, 140 grams of crack cocaine, 7.8 grams of marijuana, 2.8 grams of powder cocaine, and over $2,000.00 in cash. Along with the guns and drugs were the client’s social security card and birth certificate, all of which were hidden in a secret compartment in the vehicle. Narcotics officers wanted client to cooperate, but client refused. After intense scrutiny and cross-referencing of numerous police reports, records and evidence, Mr. Kadish attacked the legality of the seizure, search and stop of client. Following intense pressure by Mr. Kadish, all charges were thrown out.
Criminal defense
Johns Hopkins physician cleared of manslaughter charges after DUI
Jan 01, 2013
OUTCOME: No Conviction
The public outrage was palpable after a physician from Johns Hopkins University drove head-on into another car, resulting in the death of a 22-year-old woman. The physician had driven the wrong way on ...I-83 for nearly seven miles at the time of the collision. His blood-alcohol content registered more than twice the legal limit hours after the crash, and he had only been off probation for his prior drunk driving offense for one week.
Attorney Craig Kadish defended the doctor against charges of automobile manslaughter and DUI. Through in-depth research and creative lawyering that centered on the victim’s medical treatment, Mr. Kadish was able to negotiate an arranged disposition for the doctor which would ultimately result in a conviction for drunk driving, but no conviction for the auto manslaughter charge.
Criminal defense
2012 RAPE AT THE BEACH – NOT GUILTY
Jan 01, 2012
OUTCOME: After the State presented three days of witness testimony, and after each witness had been expertly cross-examined by Mr. Kadish, the Judge dismissed the entire case, finding the Defendant not guilty of all counts.
In 2012 a young man on vacation in Ocean City was charged with rape, sexual offenses and assault – after three days of trial before a jury, he is found not guilty on all charges.
A young man, in his... early 20’s and a star wrestler is asked to coach a wrestling team from his small town in Pennsylvania at a tournament in Ocean City, Maryland. He shares a room with some of the young men on the wrestling team. One evening, one of those young men brings two girls back to his room to “hang out.” One of the girls likes the young coach, and as the couples pair off, he and the young lady he is with became intimate…eventually having intercourse.
Days later, the girl claims that she was drunk and did not know what she was doing when she had sex with this young wrestling coach; she claims she was raped. The trial team at Kadish, Forster & Fastovsky, LLC, knew that this young man was innocent; they knew that his entire life hung on whether or not the jury would see the truth. Craig M. Kadish, Esquire, demanded copies of the “victim’s” cell phone records. The KFF trial team then reviewed each and every telephone call on those cell phone records, and discovered that the “victim,” who said she was too drunk to resist the “rape,” was actually texting a girlfriend of hers after the rape supposedly occurred. Mr. Kadish knew that the “victim’s” claim that she was too drunk to consent to intercourse was inconsistent with the evidence showing that she was conscious enough to text and have a full written conversation with her girlfriend who was attending college in New York. Mr. Kadish took extensive measures, going so far as having the State of New York compel the New York girlfriend to come to Maryland to testify. At trial, the girlfriend of the “victim,” who was brought all the way from New York, was forced during intense cross-examination by Mr. Kadish to acknowledge that the supposedly drunk “victim” and she had a full conversation via text, and even admitted that the “victim” conveyed to her the name of the young wrestling coach. After the State presented three days of witness testimony, and after each witness had been expertly cross-examined by Mr. Kadish, the Judge dismissed the entire case, finding the Defendant not guilty of all counts.
This innocent, young wrestling coach was saved from a long period of prison time and the possibility of a lifetime of registering as a sexual offender, thanks to the skill and perseverance of the team of lawyers at KFF.
Criminal defense
Murder Charges Dismissed
Jan 01, 2008
OUTCOME: In 2008, after trial had begun, the father chose to plead guilty to a lesser offense of child abuse resulting in death, in exchange for dismissal of the murder charges.
A Harford County couple was charged with the starvation murder in the 2005 death of their adopted son. They had adopted four siblings from Russia. One was a 4 year old who weighed approximately 39 poun...ds when he arrived in the United States for his adoption. At the time of his death at the age of 8, he was alleged to have weighed approximately 37 pounds. He had not been seen by a doctor in over three years. The prosecution alleged a pattern of horrific abuse, deprivation and medical neglect, supported by testimony of some of his siblings.
Craig Kadish represented the father in the three-year-long case. He argued that the boy suffered from Reactive Attachment Disorder from the neglect he suffered as a baby in the Russian orphanage, which caused substantial behavior problems and stunted his internal organs and physical growth. Mr. Kadish arranged for the world’s preeminent forensic pathologist from the John Hopkins School of Medicine. Furthermore many other witnesses were prepared pretrial to testify on behalf of both father and mother that the alleged abuse was an earnest, if misguided, attempt by the couple to control the boy’s wild behavior. In 2008, after trial had begun, the father chose to plead guilty to a lesser offense of child abuse resulting in death, in exchange for dismissal of the murder charges.
Criminal defense
Canadian truck driver charged with international drug smuggling
Jan 01, 2008
OUTCOME: Mr. Kadish was able to resolve the case without any additional incarceration.
In the winter of 2008, a Canadian truck driver was charged with international drug smuggling when authorities discovered in excess of (110,000) doses of MDMA, (ecstasy) as well as a large quantity of m...arijuana hidden in the tractor trailer’s interior walls.
Craig Kadish represented the trucker in a case that made headlines in both countries. Mr. Kadish secured the Canadian citizen’s release after six tense weeks in custody, after which he was able to return home to Canada. Although the client faced years of mandatory prison time for importation of controlled substances, Mr. Kadish was able to resolve the case without any additional incarceration.
Criminal defense
Rape charges dropped against U.S. Senate candidate
Jan 01, 2006
OUTCOME: Client proven innocent
A candidate for the U.S. Senate from Maryland was arrested in July 2006 on charges of spousal rape, domestic assault, and false imprisonment. Defense lawyer Craig Kadish aggressively countered the shoc...king allegations of his client’s 19-year-old wife, who had married him in Latvia just a year earlier.
Mr. Kadish immediately employed one of the State’s finest private investigators who went with Mr. Kadish and the police to the scene of the alleged crime, and through a series of demonstrations, proved to the police investigators that the allegations made by the candidate’s wife could not have taken place as described by her.
In August 2006, Baltimore County prosecutors dropped all charges as a result of pretrial meetings with Mr. Kadish wherein he presented the extensive evidence which he and the investigator had obtained proving his client’s innocence. Although the candidate was exonerated, the damage was done to the man’s Senate bid — he did not survive the Democratic primary a month later.
