January 03, 2012

• Steven Topazio wrote this April 27, 2014 at 2:01 pm

The client, who was out on bail on a different case while under house arrest and being monitored electronically by the court, was arrested on a charge of ABDW after being assaulted by three individuals on New Year’s Eve. The three individuals entered the client’s home allegedly armed with knives and attacked the client. The client was beaten and thereafter fled his home and entered his parked motor vehicle and locked the doors. Despite the client’s actions, the windows of the motor vehicle were smashed and the client attempted to flee by starting the vehicle and attempted to reverse out of the driveway crashing into his attacker’s motor vehicle. Attorney Topazio took the initial phone call from distraught family members on New Year’s Eve and rearranged his schedule so as to appear at his client’s arraignment scheduled for January 3, 2012. Today, due to the new arrest, the Commonwealth filed a motion to revoke his client’s bail and requested that the Court hold his client for 60 days without bail. Attorney Topazio was successful in convincing the Court to deny the Commonwealth’s request to revoke bail and was successful in securing his client’s release for custody.