Criminal Case Results

Client was charged with criminal Leaving the Scene of an Accident. Attorney Zahra Umansky contacted the prosecutor and pointed out some weaknesses in the case. Attorney Zahra Umansky was able to convince the prosecutor to dismiss the criminal charge altogether.

Helped client get valid DL after he was HTO'd. File flip motion that was granted on prior civil DWLS ticket. Sent proof of valid DL to State. State filed No Info notice on 6/7 on this felony DWLS.

State filed no info notice because this charge was filed in the felony case.

TR dismissed. Cop did not appear.

Case was a bench plea because the State wanted ag + 364 days jail as a plea offer, which was State trying to hold her responsible for injuries to the victim that she had nothing to do with. Judge gave her ag + 30 days jail + 11 months probation, 8 week anger management course, no weapons, no contact with victim on a misdemeanor battery and false info to leo charge. Plea sets up a double jeopardy defense if State...

Client was arrested for Aggravated Battery. Client retained me prior to the State filing charges. I was able to get the State to file misdemeanor battery instead of the felony aggravated battery. After a few months of working the case, we set the case for trial. The day before trial, the State and I met with the Judge to discuss the logistics of the trial. The State assured the Judge they were ready to go to trial. I assured the...

Careless Driving ticket dismissed. 66 year old CDL holder.

Client charged with Resisting with violence. He is on probation for Resisting with violence. Because of his past and this new charge he qualifies as a violent felony offender of special concern and scored 48 months DOC. Jury verdict is to lesser resisting officer without violence. He was sentenced to credit time served. Now he is not longer a violent felony offender and he will not score prison on the VOP.

After sending discovery to the state of text messages sent from the AV to a third party, the state decided to file a No Information and even sent an email thanking me for my thorough investigation in the matter. This client is eligible for expungement.

Bench Plea. Had wife present to testify to explain why he was late getting back from barber (actually pretty good reason, but it's hard to argue that it isn't "willful" when it's community control and you're an hour late; burden is on client to NOT mess up community control. Did a bench plea and I explained what happened. Judge Chase offered to modify probation 364 days jail with 217 days credit on CF18-1483 and 196 cays credit on CF19-3977, terminates...