Tampa criminal court case results
- multiple probation violations
- facts: The client (defendant) was put on felony probation for Obtaining a Controlled Substance by Fraud. The Court withheld adjudication (no conviction), and put him on 18 months drug offender probation. The Court agreed to transfer the defendant's probation because he lived in Memphis, tennessee.
- defense: Florida has very specific laws regarding the types of information that can be introduced in a sexual battery trial concerning the victim's past. However, this information can be crucial to the State Attorney's decision as to whether or not to file criminal charge in the first place. In this case, we discovered that the girlfriend had made similar allegations in the past against another man. In addition to that, her account of the events was inconsistent with evidence that the officer's had collected on the scene. Her history of emotional and psychological issues added further questions about her credibility.
- results: After presenting all of this evidence to the State, and cooperating with law enforcement, the charges were no filed
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