Practice Area: DUI / DWI
Date: Oct 03, 2013
Outcome: Acquittal
Description: DWI. Client was passed out behind the wheel of his car in the middle lane of I-35 at night. Admitted to drinking and failed field sobriety tests. Jury deliberated less than an hour before finding client Not Guilty.
Practice Area: Criminal Defense
Date: Jul 15, 2013
Outcome: Acquittal
Description: Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon. Client charged with pulling a gun on four people. Successfully argued self-defense at trial, and the jury deliberated twenty minutes before finding client Not Guilty.
Practice Area: Criminal Defense
Date: May 31, 2013
Outcome: Dismissed
Description: Assault family violence enhanced to 3rd degree. Client alleged to have strangled estranged girlfriend. Was able to get case dismissed just before trial started by showing through our investigation that alleged victim had made the whole story up.
Practice Area: Criminal Defense
Date: May 30, 2013
Outcome: Dismissed
Description: First degree felony narcotics. Client allegedly possessed a large quantity of GHB. Was able to prove to DA that there was a complete lack of evidence linking client to the drugs.
Practice Area: Criminal Defense
Date: May 17, 2013
Outcome: Dismissed
Description: Felony Environmental Crime. Client allegedly dumped several tons of pollutants onto private land.
State vs. SS
Practice Area: Criminal Defense
Date: May 09, 2013
Outcome: Dismissed
Description: DWI breath test. Client was allegedly twice the legal limit. Breath test and field sobriety tests suppressed and ruled inadmissible. DA dismissed case.
Practice Area: Criminal Defense
Date: Apr 23, 2013
Outcome: Not Guilty
Description: Burglary of a Motor Vehicle. Judge ordered the jury to return a Not Guilty verdict after motion was made during trial to declare a lack of evidence.
Practice Area: Criminal Defense
Date: Mar 28, 2013
Outcome: New hearing ordered by court of appeals
Description: Possession of 23 lbs. of marijuana. Court of appeals ruled that original judge presiding over the case did not follow the law when denying client’s motion to suppress. New hearing was ordered and client’s sentence was converted from 7 years prison to 7 years probation.
Practice Area: Criminal Defense
Date: Mar 20, 2013
Outcome: Reduced to misdemeanor assault with deferred
Description: Sexual Assault. Client was charged with committing rape. After pre-trial hearings, and Defense investigation, it was determined that no sexual assault had occurred.
Practice Area: DUI / DWI
Date: Feb 14, 2013
Outcome: Mistrial; charges reduced
Description: DWI. After two mistrials were declared, the case was reduced from a DWI to an obstruction of a highway.
Practice Area: DUI / DWI
Date: Aug 23, 2012
Outcome: mistrial declared 3 different times
Description: DWI with blood test twice the legal limit. Three mistrials have been declared and case is still being litigated.
Practice Area: Criminal Defense
Date: Jul 12, 2012
Outcome: Not Guilty
Description: Aggravated Sexual Assault. Client allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted an ex-girlfriend. During a jury trial, it was discovered that the alleged victim had lied numerous times about the events in question. Jury deliberated less than an hour before returning Not Guilty verdict.
Practice Area: Criminal Defense
Date: Jul 12, 2012
Outcome: Not Guilty
Description: Aggravated Kidnapping. Client allegedly held someone captive with a pistol. At trial it was discovered that the alleged victim had fabricated the story, and the jury found Defendant not guilty.
Practice Area: DUI / DWI
Date: Aug 22, 2011
Outcome: Dismissed
Description: DWI. Client’s blood test was over the legal limit. Case dismissed prior to trial.
Practice Area: Criminal Defense
Date: Mar 30, 2011
Outcome: Dismissed
Description: Felony Assault Family Violence Enhanced. Client allegedly committed assault against a girlfriend, and it was enhanced to a felony based his prior convictions. Defense investigation revealed that alleged victim had lied.
Practice Area: DUI / DWI
Date: Mar 01, 2011
Outcome: Dismissed
Description: Felony DWI 3rd or more. Defendant had been convicted twice before for DWI. This was his third arrest for DWI, and the blood test was three times the legal limit. Motion to suppress was granted, and Judge ruled that the State had violated client’s constitutional right to counsel. State dismissed case.
Practice Area: DUI / DWI
Date: Jun 23, 2009
Outcome: Not Guilty
Description: DWI. Car crash on I-35. Blood test revealed client was allegedly four times the therapeutic limit for Soma. Jury deliberated for fifteen minutes before finding client Not Guilty.