Just a few of the recent cases in which our clients prevailed...
Acquitted—
Acquitted:
An Ohio couple stole millions of Dollars from several victims throughout the country. Two investors from California and two investors from Arizona tracked down the couple living an Exotic lifestyle in Miami. The Investors hired two armed bodyguards to assist in their collection of their funds and took the Nanny and two infants from their house and drove them to the Pizzeria the Mother was running.
The Ohio woman was taken from the Pizzeria by force and the Nanny, two children and their mother were held for 9 hours at 3 different holding locations while the investors sent ransom demands to the husband/father with photos of the family and wiring instructions to be met by 8pm or else.
Six Defendants were charged with conspiracy to Kidnap and 4 counts of kidnapping with guns. One Defendant pled guilty six days before trial and agreed to a 17-year sentence to testify against the defendants. The Nanny testified our client snatched the sleeping baby from the bedroom of the home, forced them from the home, was locked in the car with child safety locks activated and held against her will. The cooperating co-defendant testified that our client provided a disguise for her to enter the pizzeria, was sent banking information to his phone to transfer moneys from the kidnappee as he went through her phone and found bank accounts. The house and pizzeria abductions were captured on video tape and the Government showed a video and called an expert witness from Volkswagen of America who testified that the video shows the child locks being activated by a co-conspirator as the mother was being forcefully placed in our client’s car.
Our defense was our client was hired to protect, was unaware it was a kidnapping and the Government’s witnesses were lying for a reduced sentence and special visa’s for victims. After a three-week trial our client and one other defendant were acquitted of all charges while the other three Defendants were convicted of the kidnappings.
Acquitted—
Acquitted:
The son of Two Boston lawyers flew to Miami to visit his Boston childhood best friend. After a night out of partying, his host’s gun went off, striking him in the middle of the chest and killing him. The deceased’s Prominent Miami Doctor’s father hired the retired former second in command of the State’s Attorney’s Office to pressure the office to bring first degree murder charges. They brought manslaughter charges that would result in a minimum 15-year sentence if convicted. After a 1-week trial our client was acquitted of the charges and is now living back in Boston.
Hung Jury—
Hung Jury:
The Federal Government Charged our client with Conspiracy to commit Wire Fraud and five counts of Wire Fraud in an elaborate scheme where the victims were told the IRS had large penalties against them requiring them to deposit large sums of cash into our client’s bank accounts in their home states resulting in over one million dollars in losses.
Treasury investigators visited our client to discuss the money deposited into his accounts; they claimed our client confessed to two different agents that he had committed this crime. The Jury was unable to reach a verdict after our defense that our client was used and fooled by the same elusive criminals who fooled the victims, and the Agents were untruthful or mistaken about a confession; he only acknowledged the moneys came through his account. On the eve of the retrial, the prosecutors agreed to dismiss all but two of the charges and recommend no jail and probation to the Judge.
Case Dismissed—
Case Dismissed:
A Federal Prosecutor was arrested for Battering a City of Miami Police officer in Wynwood at 3am. After our own investigation was presented to the State’s Attorney’s Office, we were able to show our client believed a man was in danger as he was being harmed by several men who turned out to be police officers making an arrest. The State declined to press charges against our client.
Charges Dropped—
Charges Dropped, No Felony Conviction:
A Lawyer was charged with Two counts of Felony DUI with Serious Bodily Injury, possession of Cocaine and Four counts of Misdemeanor DUI after his car went into oncoming traffic at a high rate of speed and hit a car head on with a mother and daughter in it. They required several surgeries. The client was also taken to the hospital where he thought he was in a different county; his blood was taken by the hospital and through force after a Search Warrant was executed showing he had a blood alcohol level two times the legal limit, cocaine in his system and a baggie of cocaine in his possession. After several meetings with the Prosecutors demonstrating that the Blood drawn by both the Hospital and as a result of the Search Warrant was in Jeopardy of Suppression, we reached a plea agreement where the Felony DUI’s were dismissed, our Client was not convicted of any felonies and was convicted of one count of Misdemeanor DUI.