April 15, 2011

• Steven Topazio wrote this April 27, 2014 at 11:58 am

The defendant, a resident intern at a local hospital, was arrested for larceny over $250, a felony charge, when he left a local drinking establishment with an iphone he believed belonged to his friend, hired Attorney Topazio to represent him. According to the police report, the defendant took the iphone off the bar after the woman he had been speaking too left it there when she went to the lady’s room. When confronted by wait staff, the defendant ran out of the bar but was pursued and arrested. Attorney Topazio met with the district attorney prior to his client’s arraignment and after lengthy negotiations, convinced the Commonwealth to dismiss the charge against his client prior to arraignment on the condition that he complete 50 hours of community service, and the court agreed. A dismissal prior to arraignment insured that this charge would not appear on his client’s CORI.