NFL Defensive Back DUI The defensive back acknowledged he had been to a party on South Beach but said he was not impaired and did not have trouble driving his Cadillac Escalade. The jury acquitted him.

Miami Man Accused of Burning an Apartment Acquitted Our client was charged with burning the apartment of his girlfriend and the building she lived in. He confessed to the first police officers who showed up, the detectives on the scene and later on tape to the lead arson detectives.  At trial it was shown that the client confessed only to protect his girlfriend, a clerk in the court house, from being charged with the arson. The jury acquitted our client.

Drug Smuggling Sting in Tampa Our client’s partner negotiated on recorded calls for several weeks to sell two kilograms of cocaine in Tampa to an informant and undercover agent before doing bigger business with them. Our client and his partner drove from Miami to the Tampa hotel room where the exchange was to take place. Our client brought in the duffle bag containing the two kilograms of cocaine and tossed it to the undercover agent who opened the bag and cut into the cocaine for testing. It was all captured on video. In spite of the video, the defense turned down a

Middle Eastern Man Accused of Smuggling Cash Our client, a businessman who owned several convenience stores, was stopped at the airport because a cash sniffing dog apparently alerted to him. Though he had declared that he had less than $10,000 with him, he had well in excess of the declaration. The government moved to seize all the money and charged him with three separate counts of smuggling cash. He was acquitted of all counts and the government had to return all of his money.