Tampa, FL
Federal crime Lawyer at Tampa, FL
Practice Areas: Federal Crime, Criminal Defense ... +2 more
OUTCOME: Robbery charges declined due to Alibi
Client was wrongly identified as a robbery suspect by a convenience store worker in a drive-by Identification. Despite the victim's confidence, we were able to conclusively establish client's whereabo ... uts elsewhere at the time of the robbery. He later was able to ADMINISTRATIVELY expunge this wrongful arrest, graduate from college and have a great career.
OUTCOME: 165 counts thrown out after Mtn to Suppress
My client was from out of state, but traveled through Hillsborough County issuing fake business checks to a now bankrupt major store chain. He purchased merchandise with the fake checks, then went to ... another location and returned the item for a cash refund. He was captured in a Tampa hotel with 165 fraudulent checks, check making equipment and evidence linking him to similar activity in other jurisdictions. The problem was that the police searched his hotel room without consent and without a search warrant. A Motion to Suppress the illegal search resulted in all charges related tot he search being dismissed. The client was facing decades in prison and went home having pled to a felony count of grand theft without being convicted and got off probation early.
OUTCOME: Supervision only for federal oxycodone client
My client was charged in federal court in MDFL with conspiracy to distribute Oxycodone. He only participated about 5 months in a much broader conspiracy. He elected to cooperate with state and federa ... l authorities. His cooperation was extraordinary as were his personal history and characteristics. Unfortunately, during the course of his cooperation his identity was compromised and he received death threats. Because of his work, 16 people were arrested and indicted. The government only recommended a very small sentence reduction for his cooperation of 6 levels off his guideline of 57 to 73 months. I asked the District Judge to give him 1 level for each defendant he helped to bring to justice. In all, the Court departed 16 levels and sentenced my client to 5 years of supervision with 6 months of home detention. The client will not spend a day in prison despite initially facing over 5 years in custody.
OUTCOME: Not Guilty Verdict
My client was a school teacher charged with allegedly touching the buttocks and breasts of two female students in gym class. We went to trial and demonstrated that not only were the two girls best fri ... ends and had laughed about the allegations, but there was physically no place or time they were left unsupervised during school when this was alleged to have occurred. Both girls were failing gym class which client taught and were trying to cover for their bad performance and bad grades. The jury returned a swift not guilty verdict.
OUTCOME: Sex Battery charge no-filed
My client was charged with sexual battery. He was called to a friend's apartment and present was an overly sexually aggressive woman. They had a few beers together and the woman wanted to have sex. ... After a brief consensual encounter, the alleged victim called the police and cried rape. My client was arrested and held in custody until we could get a reasonable bond. Thereafter, we were able to identify the vicitm, discover she had made statements earlier that she would have sex with someone to get back at her husband and her account of what occurred was refuted by her friend. The State determined she was not credible and they could not overcome their burden of proving this was anything other than a consensual encounter.
OUTCOME: The State declined to file any charges.
My client was in a soccer league. A member of the opposing team was acting unprofessionally and against game rules. The two men had words on the field and later were removed from the game. As they b ... oth walked to their cars in the parking lot, my client was barraged with verbal abuse from the other player. Because of the reputation for violence of the other player, my client retrieved a knife from his car. He kept it behind his back when he turned toward the opposing player who was threatening my client with violence. Later, my client was arrested for Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon. We were able to find another player watching the incident to refute the alleged victim's account that my client assaulted him with the knife. It is a classical example of the need to get counsel before the state makes a filing decision. It is much easlier to impact the decision before a charge is filed than after.
OUTCOME: State declined to file charges after arrest
My client was driving a vehicle and stopped for improperly wearing his seatbelt. A odor of marijuana provided the basis for a search by police. The back seat passenger dropped marijuana from his pers ... on. A further search of the car revealed cocaine in the backseat the scales and marijuana in a bag on the front seat near the passenger. Because of how the drugs were packaged, all 3 men were charged with Possession of Cocaine with Intent to Sell or Deliver; Possession of Marijuana with intent to sell or deliver and possession of paraphernalia. I provided a legal memorandum outlining the relevant case law regarding joint, constructive possession of narcotics to the State. After a thorough review, they determined that they could not carry their burden of a knowing possession by my client with an ability to exercise dominion and control over the drugs. The case was no-filed.
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