Theft charges dismissed (Manhattan)
2020
Lance’s client, a delivery driver, was
arrested for several incidents where some of the packages were tampered with and
some of the contents went missing. Our client was the only person who
was in possession at the time of the theft and was
arrested and charged with three separate cases. Our client
contacted us for help. We fought the case on certain provability issues including the
use of circumstantial evidence and the fact that there were others who
had accesses to the merchandise near the time of the alleged theft. We
negotiated a deal with the prosecutor where in exchange for our client
pleading guilty only to one charge of disorderly conduct, a non-criminal
violation, the other charges and other cases would be dropped. We took
this deal and it also caused the event to be sealed off of our client’s record.