Attorney Keren E Goldenberg's Legal Cases

DUI and DWI

Drunk Driving - Not Guilty

Dec 22, 2017

OUTCOME: Not Guilty

A concerned citizen called the police about my client's driving. When the police pulled him over they noticed that he had trouble standing and had red eyes and smelled of alcohol. The police's dashboar ... d footage of my client was suppressed. His wife testified and introduced medical records that my client had a terrible accident years earlier and had over a dozen screws and as steel plate in his foot which made it impossible for him to put weight on that foot.

Domestic violence

When Divorce Cases Spill Over into the Criminal Courts

Oct 14, 2017

OUTCOME: Not guilty

Client in the middle of a miserable divorce with her soon-to-be ex-husband. He showed up with his sister and mother to tell her off and it got physical. Although my client was the only one with injurie ... s, the husband and his family convinced the police that she had attacked all of them and she was charged. All of them testified against her with his divorce lawyer watching from the gallery. Jury agreed that their claims were false and that they were doing this to gain leverage in the divorce.

Sex crime

Rape - Not Guilty

Oct 04, 2017

OUTCOME: Not Guilty

Client was accused of raping a prostitute in his car. The defense was that she made up these false allegations when police approached her while she was working and she had a warrant and was on probati ... on for prostitution. By false accusing my client of rape, she was not arrested for prostitution, on the warrant, and she did not risk having her probation revoked.

Domestic violence

Domestic Assault and Battery

Sep 16, 2017

OUTCOME: Not Guilty

Client's ex-girlfriend was furious at him for breaking up with him and accused him of pulling her hair and hitting her. He spent the weekend in police custody while she enjoyed his beautiful apartment ... and car and was furious when he was released by the court on Monday. So she called the police and said he had hit her again and this time the court held him. Her tears on the stand did not survive cross-examination and the jury found him not guilty.

Violent crime

Shooting

Apr 16, 2017

OUTCOME: Not guilty

Client was accused of shooting a rival drug dealer in the leg. Defense was that the rival dealer was shot by someone else but after refusing to speak to police decided to falsely blame my client so tha ... t he could take his customers while client was held for the shooting.

Sex crime

Rape - not guilty

Feb 11, 2017

OUTCOME: Not Guilty

The complaining witness said that she drove my client home from a party and went into his apartment to use his bathroom where she was raped by him. Defense was that she had to explain to her boyfriend ... why she went out without him and came home at 4 am so she invented this story.

Sex crime

Sexual Assault of a Child

Dec 09, 2015

OUTCOME: Not guilty

My client was accused of sexually assaulting his ex-girlfriend's daughter. The jury agreed with my defense that child made up the accusation because she was jealous that my client had left her mother a ... nd had a new girlfriend and baby. They quickly found my client not guilty.

Constitutional

Lewdness Charge Dismissed

Nov 26, 2015

OUTCOME: Case dismissed

My client was accused of grabbing his crotch over his pants and shaking it at a police officer while telling him to "f*ck off." The judge agreed with my argument that his conduct, while offensive to th ... e officer, is protected by the First Amendment and cannot be criminalized.

Criminal defense

Illegal Search of Computer

Feb 03, 2015

OUTCOME: Case dismissed

A judge in the Superior Court recently suppressed child pornography files found on my client’s computer. The police focused in on my client after a state trooper accessed his computer via a peer to pee ... r file sharing network and found illegal files. The police determined the IP address that the computer was using to access the Internet, learned that it was registered to Comcast, and got the subscriber information for the account. The judge suppressed the files because the search warrant affidavit did not establish sufficient probability that the device with the contraband files was in the home at the time that the warrant was executed and because the items listed in the affidavit for which the police were permitted to search was too broad.

Criminal defense

Self-Defense Stabbing

Oct 20, 2014

OUTCOME: Not Guilty

I represented a young man accused of armed assault to murder for stabbing someone at a party where everyone was drunk and looking to fight. The victim of the stabbing and his brother testified that my ... client initiated a one-on-one fight with the victim and pulled a knife out because he was losing the fight and stabbed the unarmed man who was much smaller than him. I presented several witnesses from the party who all agreed that my client had been surrounded by a large group of angry men including the one who was stabbed and his brother who swarmed him. Following hours of meticulous preparation, my client testified beautifully about the attack and his belief that he was going to be beaten to death. He was acquitted of all charges.

Keren E Goldenberg's Legal Cases (16)

Drunk Driving - Not Guilty

When Divorce Cases Spill Over into the Criminal Courts

Rape - Not Guilty

Domestic Assault and Battery

Shooting

Rape - not guilty

Sexual Assault of a Child

Lewdness Charge Dismissed

Illegal Search of Computer

Self-Defense Stabbing