October 19, 2012

• Steven Topazio wrote this April 27, 2014 at 6:52 pm

The client, an 18 year old individual who was arrested in his brother’s apartment, and charged with 3 counts of ABPO, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace, hired Boston Massachusetts Defense Lawyer Steven J. Topazio to defend him. According to the police report, after responding to the third floor of an apartment house, Boston Police officers allege that they heard a loud commotion coming from the second floor so they knocked and gained entrance and saw the client fighting with an unknown black male. The officer alleges that the client struck a police officer in the face causing his glasses to fly off and then when an older female who was present tried to grab the client’s arms, he flung his arms causing the older female to fall to the floor. According to the police report when two other officers attempted to place the defendant under arrest, the defendant violently resisted, knocking the other two officers to the ground. Boston Criminal Defense Attorney Steven J. Topazio met with the Assistant District Attorney in an attempt to resolve the matter short of trial. Massachusetts Defense Lawyer Topazio argued that the complaint against his client was a defensive complaint due to the fact that the older female, who was described in the police report as being knocked to the ground and injured, was his client’s mother. Boston Defense Attorney Topazio pointed out that the police never charged his client with A&B on his mother or ever identify the unknown black male they say his client was fighting with which the police alleged was the basis for entering the apartment. Today, Massachusetts Defense Lawyer Topazio convinced the Assistant District Attorney to resolve all the criminal charges pending against his client by placing him on pre-trial probation for a period of nine months, in lieu of any admission or trial.