February 03, 2011
- Steven Topazio wrote this April 27, 2014 at 11:47 am
The defendants, sister-in-laws who were shopping prior to Christmas, were arrested when captured on video by Filene’s Basement security switching price tags on merchandise valued at $2,200.00 and then paying a lesser price at the cash register of $200.00, hired Boston Criminal Defense Lawyer Steven J. Topazio to represent them. According to statute, any person who intentionally alters, transfers or removes any label, price tag or marking indicia of value or any other markings which aid in determining value affixed to any merchandise displayed, held, stored or offered for sale by any store or other retail mercantile establishment and to attempt to purchase such merchandise personally or in consort with another at less than the full retail value with the intention of depriving the merchant of all or some part of the retail value thereof, and where the retail value of the goods obtained equals or exceeds one hundred dollars, then any violation shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than two and one-half years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Boston Criminal Defense Lawyer Steven J. Topazio contacted the Assistant District Attorney assigned to the case and negotiated a resolution whereby both cases would be dismissed on $500.00 court costs, but would still have to convince the court.
Today, Boston Criminal Defense Lawyer Steven J. Topazio, despite the overwhelming evidence against his clients, argued that the charges against his clients were an aberration since neither of them had any prior criminal record and convinced the court that in the interests of justice it should dismiss each case on $500.00 court costs, and the court agreed.