December 28, 2011
- Steven Topazio wrote this April 27, 2014 at 1:58 pm
The client, a 28 year old college graduate employed as a business systems analyst for a Boston Investment Company, received an application for criminal complaint after punching a fellow patron in the face while in Whiskey’s Smokehouse Bar in Boston. Attorney Topazio met with his client and learned that the on duty manager from the bar witnessed the assault and battery and that the client admitted to the police that he punched the victim after he was grabbed from behind by an unidentified person. Attorney Topazio, in an attempt to resolve the matter prior to criminal charges from being issued against his client, (which would also prevent an entry on his client’s board of probation record, commonly referred as BOP or CORI), contacted the investigating Boston Police Detective and explained his client’s position and addressed any concerns the police or victim had to a resolution of the matter at the Magistrate’s hearing. Attorney Topazio further arranged to have the case sent to court sponsored mediation should the Magistrate require as part of any resolution. Today at the hearing on the application for issuance of the criminal complaint, Attorney Topazio was successful in convincing to the Magistrate, with the consent of the applicant, to deny the issuance of the criminal complaint thus preserving his client’s CORI.