05/26/2026
NOT GUILTY ON THE SWITCH @ a bench trial. Client looking at 6 to 30 years if found guilty.
IGHT SO BOOM, client is not pictured he will be released tonight after spending 7 months in custody. So first shout out to the real boss in the video; HIS GIRL made SURE she got me. I stopped taking cases during the holidays last year but she SHOWED up and made sure to have her business straight. How could we say no?! WE DIDNT.
I tried to do a release hearing. Not happening. Client is a felon and was charged with a firearm exquipped with an extended magazine and a switch. NO GO. But we hard pivoted straight into trial. Watch out for the elbow cause he BALL over here.
Just because you’re detained pre-trial, does NOT mean you’re guilty.
Client was sole occupant and driver of the vehicle. Evidence came out at trial that he did not own the vehicle and Officers had no idea how long he was in the car. But we got a GEM at trial. Officer admitted to seeing the car earlier, not knowing if my client was in it, AND that there were 3 people in the car. BOOM.
Client pulled over on a traffic violation, no issues. Complied with officers during the initial part of the stop. His phone was hooked up to the car (state argued he intimately knew the car - naaaaah anyone can hook up thier phone to a car). So officer approached. Doesn’t see my client reaching in the car. Takes him out. No cuffs. Then searches: 1) under the seat, nothing; 2) pops open a compartment under the steering wheel, nothing; 3) center counsel, nope. It’s not till he takes my clients phone off the gear shift area, that he realizes it’s loose. So he opens the trap/slot finds the PEWPEW. Then walks over to where my client is and says “cuff him.”
Then and only then, does my client try to run. But he runs towards the car, NOT for the gun we argue; he’s yelling “baby they trying to mess with me.” State argued consciousness of guilt, he ran because he knew about the gun. Naaaaah.
I argue TIMING, he didn’t run till they cuff him (flight or fight mode) and he’s trying to communicate with his girl who is still on the phone, even officer was talking to her.
Only a crazy person runs to try to get a gun surrounded by armed officers. They take him down. Cuff him. No DNA, no fingerprints, no statements, NO CASE.
Court said it was super close those, and it was. BUT WE SLIIIIIDDDDDDD. CALLTHE NEXT CASE!!!!!