February 27, 2012

• Steven Topazio wrote this April 27, 2014 at 2:17 pm

The client, a 20 year old high school graduate, was arrested after being seen by neighbors snorting cocaine while parked in his automobile, hired Boston Criminal Defense Attorney Topazio to defend him. When the police responded to the neighbor’s call to investigate the alleged crime, they allegedly witnessed Client driving home in a different area of town without issue. Despite this fact, the police effectuated a motor vehicle stop with the intent of searching the client, and found cocaine in the client’s motor vehicle. After months of investigation, Attorney Topazio filed a motion to suppress the narcotics that were seized from Client’s car. Attorney Topazio argued that that the stop of his client’s car was unlawful and that there was no probable cause to search his client’s motor vehicle as well. Despite Attorney Topazio’s argument that a search made pursuant to the automobile exception must be based on probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed and that evidence relevant to that crime may be found in the automobile, the court denied the motion to suppress and the case proceeded to trial. Today at trial, Attorney Topazio was successful in getting the case against his client dismissed.