June 21, 2011

• Steven Topazio wrote this April 27, 2014 at 12:14 pm

The defendant, a foreign exchange student, received an application for criminal complaint which alleged she was in receipt of a stolen cell phone, hired Attorney Topazio to represent her. Attorney Topazio obtained the police report which indicated that numerous cell phones from a T-Mobil Store were stolen and that T-Mobil detected usage on a cell phone that was reported stolen and in the name of the defendant. When confronted by the police the defendant told them she bought the cell phone from a person she met. Attorney Topazio appeared at the Clerk’s hearing and provided documentation that his client was in good standing in college as a student in the Accounting Associate Degree Program. Attorney Topazio agreed with the investigating detective to continue the Magistrate’s hearing so that his client his client could meet with the investigating police detective to discuss the case and to provide what information she had on who sold her the cell phone. Although the defendant could not identify who sold her the cell phone, Attorney Topazio convinced the Magistrate to dismiss the complaint at the reconvened magistrate’s hearing. A dismissal of the application for criminal complaint at the Magistrate’s session not only ends the case but insures that the charges would also not appear on his client’s CORI.