January 07, 2014

• Steven Topazio wrote this May 5, 2014 at 4:32 am

The client, a 25-year old High School graduate with a lengthy criminal record, received a notice of probation violation in the BMC after being convicted on a separate criminal matter out of the Lynn District Court where he was committed for one year to the House of Correction. Boston Criminal Attorney Steven J. Topazio represented the client on the final surrender hearing in the BMC. The client’s probation in the BMC consisted of an 18 month suspended sentence as well as multiple one year suspended sentences for several criminal matters. The client’s probation in the BMC consisted of a period of supervision ordered by the court instead of causing the client to serve time in jail. After violating his probation the client now faced the threat of receiving additional prison time as a result of the subsequent criminal conviction. Attorney Topazio’s goal was to try to get the BMC suspended sentences to at least run concurrent with the Lynn sentence his client was now serving and to avoid as best he could having the BMC sentences run from and after the Lynn sentence. Today, after lengthy negotiations Attorney Topazio was able to convince the court to terminate the 18 month suspended sentence and to impose only the one year suspended sentence concurrent with the sentence his client was then serving, nunc pro tunc (or retroactively) to the time his client began serving the Lynn sentence.