March 07, 2012

• Steven Topazio wrote this April 27, 2014 at 2:32 pm

The client, a 20 year old College Student, was arrested on New Year’s Eve for breaking windows on motor vehicles, hired Attorney Steven J. Topazio to defend him. According to the police report, the Client was seen by police leaning through a broken front driver’s side window of a motor vehicle then run from police when they announced themselves. Attorney Topazio met with his client and learned that he was abandoned by his friends who left a party without him and then the Client was thrown out of a New Year’s Eve party and had no place to stay. Due to poor judgment and excessive drinking, the Client was looking for a car to spend the night in. Attorney Topazio obtained his client’s grades from school and shared them with the prosecutor to establish his client’s good character. Attorney Topazio pointed out that running from the police doesn’t meet the requirements of resisting arrest charge and persuaded the Prosecutor to dismiss that charge. Today, Attorney Topazio was successful in persuading the Commonwealth to reduce the remaining felony charges to misdemeanors on the condition that his client receive a CWOF despite his past criminal record which included convictions and committed time, and the court agreed.