August 30, 2013
- Steven Topazio wrote this May 5, 2014 at 3:54 am
The client, a 23 year old college student, was at a bar in Boston when her cousin got into an altercation and was stabbed. After the police arrived, the client was arrested by police who felt the client was interfering with their investigation, was represented by Boston Criminal Defense Lawyer Steven J. Topazio. Attorney Topazio learned that his client was angry with police, and swore and yelled at them, and then when cuffed, kicked the officer, but only after her shoes had fallen off. Attorney Topazio argued that this case resulted from an unfortunate miscommunication between the client and police in a heated moment where the police did not know a relative was stabbed. Today, Attorney Topazio persuaded the prosecutor to give his client pretrial probation with the condition that she write a letter of apology to the officer. Chapter 276 Section 87 of the Massachusetts General Laws allows a court to place a person on pretrial probation instead of forcing the client to trial or having the client pleads guilty. Pretrial probation occurs prior to trial or a plea of guilty, and is a court-approved agreement between the prosecutor and defendant for a certain period of time and under certain conditions with the end result of all charges being dismissed if the client complies.