February 08, 2012

• Steven Topazio wrote this April 27, 2014 at 2:15 pm

The client, a 21 year old father of one child, was arrested on a domestic assault and battery after getting into a fight with his baby’s mother who caught him with another woman. The police report alleges that the client grabbed his girlfriend by the neck and held her down on her bed until she started to choke. The girlfriend was treated by ambulance technicians and the girlfriend obtained an emergency 209A restraining order. Attorney Topazio utilized the help of an investigator and learned that his client and the girlfriend lived in the same apartment which the client rented. Attorney Topazio argued that the girlfriend wanted to through her boyfriend out of his own apartment because she had nowhere to go and may have made false allegations against him to avoid having to evict him. Attorney Topazio argued that the girlfriend was using the emergency 209A order as a form of self help eviction. Today at trial, Attorney Topazio was successful in getting the case against his client dismissed.