50+ DWIs amended, dismissed or not guilty in past 5 years

Jun 01, 2019

OUTCOME:

DWI with a breath test above a .08 and a CDL

Dec 14, 2017

OUTCOME: Not guilty & won the drivers license hearing

Client arrested for DWI and bew a .095. He was at risk of losing his drivers license and his CDL. Pleading guilty to the DWI would have cost him his CDL and would have created a prior plea to a DWI ... which could be used against him in the future. Won his drivers license hearing, saved his CDL, and won his DWI trial.

Child abuse for spanking

Sep 15, 2015

OUTCOME: Not guilty

Young mom was accused of child abuse for spanking her daughter on the butt with her open hand just because there was a small bruise on her butt. Corporal punishment as a form of discipline of children ... is legal in Missouri. It took the jury less than 30 minutes to agree with the defense that the mom didn’t do anything illegal.

Felony DWI

Feb 07, 2014

OUTCOME: Not guilty

Client was accused of felony DWI, which in Missouri means 2 or more prior pleas of guilty for DWI. She was facing prison time and being a convicted felon. Client said, “I was not driving the car,” but ... the police officer said, “I saw you driving the car before you parked it and switched seats.” Client swore up-and-down that she wasn’t driving the car and said over and over while in the presence of the police officer to please review the video to prove that she was innocent. He promised her there was video and that it would show her driving. Ultimately at the trial he could not find the video and brought a “partial” dash cam video that conveniently started after she was out of the car and being accused of a DWI and claiming to not have been driving. The defense was that the officer was not telling the truth about seeing her driving and, although he told her he had a video of her driving, he never did. We argued that maybe he destroyed part of the video that proved her innocence since he swore on video he had video proof of her driving but never produced it. What he did produce conveniently started with her outside the car after he’d been there several minutes. Essentially the argument was that the officer was lying and cut out of the video the proof of her innocence. It took the jury less than 30 minutes to agree with the defense.

Shaken baby case

Sep 07, 2013

OUTCOME: Not guilty

Young father was accused of shaking his baby and causing a brain injury. I hired the top expert in the medical field on the topic, Dr. John Plunkett, and a radiologist/professor from University of Miss ... ouri medical school. Both testified that this child was not shaken, but that the story of the accidental head injury told by the father was highly probable, especially since the child had been accidentally dropped from the bed while in the mother’s care a few weeks prior. The radiologist said this was accidental blunt force trauma to the head and a second brain bleed. Dr. Plunkett taught the jury that there’s no such thing as shaken baby syndrome. The state’s ER doctors, who are in the business of diagnosing child abuse, were clearly out of their element and uneducated when compared to the defense experts.

Child sex abuse

Mar 07, 2012

OUTCOME: Dismissals

All the man in a family were arrested and charged with salacious allegations of child sexual abuse & bestiality more than 15 years earlier. The local & national media ran with the story, even though ... there was not one piece of evidence that the allegations were true. After intense investigation into the background of the accusers, a motive to fabricate the stories was discovered and the prosecutor dismissed the charges against all the men.