Case Results

In 2010, I represented a man from the Culver City area who was wrongfully accused of domestic violence against his girlfriend. The client was helping his girlfriend kick her drug addiction and when she came home to him having flushed her stash, the girlfriend freaked out. A fight ensued: voices were raised and a lamp may have been broken, but no one was injured. Nonetheless, nosy neighbors called the police, and domestic violence charges were subsequently filed against my client. The two were still in a relationship with the Client sought representation, and tears rolled down his cheek as he recounted the story behind allegations he was now facing. I knew the prosecution’s only evidence was the statement the girlfriend gave at the time of the fight, which were not only outrageous and unsupported, but were also improvable since the girlfriend was in an out-of-state rehabilitation program. She had no interest in pursuing charges against her boyfriend and was grateful for his dedication to her recovery. I pushed the prosecution to the eve of trial and was ready to proceed when, at the last hour, the City Attorney offered my client a deal whereby he could do 12 anger management classes, one year of probation, and the case would be reduced to an infraction. The client did not spend a single day in jail and his record remains clean.