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Felony Cases

• Aggravated Assault
• Child Pornography
• Indecent Solicitation of a Child (Felony)
• Narcotics Cases

Aggravated Assault

People of the State of Illinois v. N.D.

Our client came to us and had been charged in a nine count criminal indictment with aggravated battery for taking a baseball bat and hitting one person in the head, hitting a second person in the nose and hitting a third person in the arm with a bat. The cases were aggravated because of the fact that the first person our client was accused of hitting in the head with a baseball bat suffered significant closed head trauma as a result of the blow to the head. The second person our client allegedly hit with the bat suffered facial injuries requiring his nose to be sewed back onto his face, and the third person our client allegedly struck with the bat sustained a broken arm.

Because of the seriousness of the injuries, the state told our client that he must go to the penitentiary for six years, only on the condition that he plea guilty to all nine counts of the indictment. If our client decided to plead not guilty and go to trial, the state indicated they would be seeking jail time in excess of six years.

We aggressively defended our client by way of a jury trial in this matter, which lasted for seven days. All of the complaining witnesses against our client testified and were subject to extensive cross-examination during the jury trial. At the termination of the trial, the jury returned a verdict of not-guilty in favor of our client on all nine counts. Our client was discharged from any liability. He did not go to jail for one single day and we obtained the expungement of his arrest records as a result of the finding of not-guilt of all charges.

People of the State of Illinois v. J.A.

When we initially became involved in this case, another attorney represented our client. That attorney voluntarily withdrew, and he asked us to represent our client. At the time, our client was charged with a felony charge of aggravated assault to a police officer. Our client, at the time of the alleged offense, was in a state of depression, and had taken two handguns and threatened to kill himself in an apartment. Inside the apartment were an elderly woman, his grandmother, and fearing for his personal safety, a call was placed to the police department, which in turn responded to a suicidal individual who was armed and dangerous and under circumstances that indicated it was possibly a hostage situation.

When the police department arrived on the scene, there were initially two officers. Those two officers called for significant back up, and by the time other officers made contact with our client, there were approximately fifty police officers in and around the area.

The apartment building where our client was at the time was evacuated, and all tenants in other apartment buildings were evacuated also. This evacuation occurred sometime after midnight.

The officers alleged that when they were trying to obtain our client’s surrender so that our client would not kill himself, our client allegedly told the police officers that “if any of you come barreling in here, you’re going to catch one in the head.” Our client allegedly later stated “I will shoot you in the head.” Our client allegedly stated a third time that he had two guns pointed at the door and would shoot the first person who came through it in the head.

The police officers further testified that they could hear the sound of a gun being cocked and uncocked by our client while he was in the apartment. The situation became more intense because the Northern Illinois Police Alarm System was called on the scene and responded with a SWAT team of another 25 – 30 police officers, bringing the total on the scene in excess of 50 police officers.

Our client eventually surrendered himself to the police, who recovered the two 38 caliber handguns and nine live rounds of ammunition. Needless to say, as a result of the acts, the prosecution was insistent that our client obtain a felony conviction and spend time in jail as a result of that conviction.

We disagreed with the state’s assessment of the situation and entered our plea of not guilty on behalf of our client and proceeded to a trial. Our aggressive defense and cross-examination of the police officers at this trial resulted in a finding by the court that our client was not guilty of all of the charges that he faced, and consequently, he was discharged without any conviction of any type. As a result, we are in the process of obtained the expungement of our client’s arrest records for this offense.

The result we obtained on behalf of our client was only as a result of our aggressive approach to his defense in spite of the state producing a minimum of ten witnesses to testify against him and producing the two recovered 38 caliber pistols, as well as the nine live rounds of live ammunition as testified to by the officers.

Child Pornography

People of the State of Illinois v. J.M.

Our client’s family hired us to represent their son, who was 19 years old at the time of this offense and who had entered a plea of guilty to six counts of child pornography. Our client had been represented by a previous attorney who had advised him that he should plead guilty to this six-count indictment for child pornography. Our client presented us with facts indicating that he had signed a twenty page confession to the effect that he had committed the offenses of child pornography, and in effect, had placed his name and initials upon approximately seventy photographs, which he identified as the minor in this matter. Based on the advice of his prior attorney, he plead guilty to six counts of child pornography, the entire indictment, and was required then to register as a sex offender for the rest of his natural life. He was also required to attend counseling classes and his life was in ruins.

He was experiencing great difficulties in obtaining employment, and even greater difficulty in having to notify police departments of his address and location so that his name could be posted on the internet as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

He met with us to see if there was anything we could do on his behalf. We accepted his case and aggressively pursued a resolution to this matter, despite the fact that he had entered a plea of guilty. We convinced the judge to vacate and set aside his plea of guilty, which was accomplished in court. We had his case set for trial on the six counts of child pornography and filed pre-trial motions to have his statements and confession suppressed, as well as to have all of the photographs suppressed as evidence from his trial. We subpoenaed police officers to testify in the Motion to Suppress Statements. The pre-trial motions accused the police officers involved of significant acts of police misconduct in obtaining an illegal confession and an illegal statement from our client, as well as illegal acts that resulted in the seizure of the photographs from our client.

On the day the pre-trial motions were set for hearing, the state dismissed all charges against our client rather than proceed to testimony on the pre-trial motions. Despite the fact that another attorney had advised our client to plead guilty, we had obtained a complete dismissal of every charge against him. Our client never had to register as a sex offender, never had to notify the police department that he was a convicted felon for child pornography and got his life back.

It was only through our aggressive representation of this individual that obtained a dismissal of all charges placed against him when another attorney had plead him guilty to the very same counts.

Indecent Solicitation of a Child (Felony)

People of the State of Illinois v. D.U.

In this case, our client was charged with conduct that arose in Cook County and in McHenry County where there was an alleged solicitation of a minor on an internet chat room.  A meeting was setup through the local police department using the Internet sting association, Perverted Justice, as a go-between to effectuate the state’s desires and try and catch clients through entrapment.  Needless to say, our client was charged with a serious felony offense in McHenry County.  After issuing subpoenas for all the records and documents from Mokena and the group “Perverted Justice” and not receiving those documents, the State’s Attorney indicated in court that he thought the State had some “jurisdictional problems with the case” and decided to dismiss the case.  All charges were dismissed.  Our client pled guilty to nothing and walked away a free man.

Narcotics Cases

People of the State of Illinois v. T.A.

When our client came to us for his defense, he had been charged with two separate and distinct hand-to-hand sales of cocaine to an undercover police officer, the offenses happening on two separate dates, approximately a month apart.

The state filed criminal information charges against our client charging him with delivery of cocaine to the undercover officer. The charges placed against him called for his incarceration in the penitentiary. However, an aggressive defense resulted in a very successful disposition on behalf of our client.

By the time the case ended, all of the charges previously brought against our client on the two separate occasions for selling crack cocaine to an undercover police officer were dismissed. Our client plead guilty to nothing, did not have to go to the penitentiary, nor did he have to plead guilty for probation. All charges were dismissed and he was released.

People v. C.O.

Our client was charged with multiple counts of possession with intent to deliver drugs. Our client was the subject of a search warrant, which was executed at his home. Recovered from his home in a locked room in his basement were 2 large freezer type bags containing over 600 grams of cannabis, over 2 kilos of cocaine, 1 brick-like package wrapped in a clear wrap with a white powder in it, and another brick-like package wrapped in tan wrapping paper, also containing cocaine. Heroin was recovered and 27 bundles of money wrapped in rubber bands were also recovered, along with two semi-automatic pistols. The bundles of money totaled $27,000.00 in cash.

Our client was arrest and charged with serious, narcotic related offenses for which sought to put him in the penitentiary for a minimum of 15 years and a maximum of 60 years. Our client initially had another attorney, and when he came to us, we began a very aggressive defense of his case. We put our client in a position to succeed and litigated a motion to have the drugs recovered from the search warrant quashed.

As a result of our efforts, our client entered a plea of guilty to possession of less than 1/10th of a gram of cocaine and was placed on probation. He never had to do one day in jail, as or defense of him was extremely successful. Both our client and his wife are eternally grateful, since our client was 57 years old at the time this incident happened and would’ve died in jail, should he had served the minimum time recommended by the statute.

People v. D.D. & B. D.

Our clients were stopped and charged with the possession of heroin.  The stop was an illegal one and was brought about by the overly aggressive Chicago Police Department.  Through our cross-examination, we were able to bring to the attention of the court that this was a “wolfpack” that was randomly stopping individuals and searching them.  Although the state offered our client a period of court supervision and/or drug school at their choice, we turned down that offer and proceeded to a hearing in this matter.  After the hearing, the judge found that there was absolutely no probable cause to proceed in this matter, and he dismissed the cases against both of our clients.  We were able to immediately obtain the expungement of our client’s arrest records as a result of this disposition.