San Luis Obispo, CA
Criminal defense Lawyer at San Luis Obispo, CA
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense, Mediation ... +2 more
OUTCOME: Dismissed
Client was arrested for possession of illegal drugs. The arrest also triggered two violations of probation. An agreement was reached in which client attended 50 NA meetings and the case was dismissed. ... The two probation violations were also dismissed.
OUTCOME: Case dismissed
Client was charged with battery stemming from an altercation over who had the right to enter an Uber that had arrived outside the night club. We sent a private investigator to speak with witnesses. We ... then presented their statements to the DA. The criminal case was dismissed and Client received a $100 non-criminal ticket for disturbing the peace by loud noise.
OUTCOME: Case dismissed
Client attended the counseling of his choice for two months and his case was reduced to a non-criminal $100 ticket. This spared him probation and a driver's license suspension.
OUTCOME: Burglary charge dismissed
Client faced total exposure of seven years in state prison. Preliminary hearing was set without a time waiver. We presented major problems in the way the case was charged and with the police investigat ... ion to the DA. The DA likely could not be ready in time. The burglary charge was dismissed and the case was settled for 30 days county jail as a probation violation. Defendant was released from custody the next day when the preliminary hearing had been scheduled.
OUTCOME: DA declined to prosecute
Wife was arrested for striking her husband. We sat down with the young lady, put her version of the physical exchange into a memorandum. We dug up an eleven-year-old domestic violence police report aga ... inst the husband from a remote county. We outlined the husbands history of untruthfulness by attached documents he had forged over the years (Including his DD214 from the army that he had altered in order to join a police force from which he was later fired.) We put all of this into a mitigation packet and convinced the DA to reject the filing. The young lady's criminal matter was solved for her before it even got started.
OUTCOME: Case dismissed
Statements supporting my client's non-involvement made by another individual were presented to the District Attorney. The case against my client was dismissed shortly after arraignment.
OUTCOME: Diversion offered
A UK Soldier in California on NATO orders was arrested for public intoxication. He was not offered diversion and was scheduled to be charged with a misdemeanor. We were able to convince the DA to dismi ... ss the case after he completed an online alcohol class. The soldier received no fallout from his chain of command.
OUTCOME: Case dismissed
Client was alleged to have made contact with his ex-wife in defiance of a no-contact order. We made the DA aware of exigent circumstances in the form of direly needed medical equipment for Client's son ... that the alleged victim possessed. The new case was dismissed and probation was re-instated without any jail time.
OUTCOME: Conviction Overturned
Client and co-defendant were alleged to have been transporting a half-pound of methamphetamine for sales. Initially charged as an HS 11378 Felony, the case was plea bargained to Felony Possession of Co ... ncentrated Cannabis (a total legal fiction). The case was then calendared for a sentence modification the day after the November elections. Client was able to remove his house arrest anklet that day. The Prop 57 motion was heard on January 16, 2017. The case against my client had to be dismissed and expunged based on the decriminalization of 4 grams or less of hash / 28.5 grams or less of marijuana - neither of which was satisfied by a half-pound of methamphetamine. Client walked.
OUTCOME: Expungement granted
Client was convicted of embezzling $50,000 in 1996. Felony was reduced to a misdemeanor and expunged from her record.
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