ATTORNEY STEPHEN R. BRODSKY HAS A WINNING ATTITUDE AND TIME AND TIME AGAIN, MR. BRODSKY COMES UP WITH WINNING DEFENSE STRATEGIES!

Here are just a few of the hundreds of criminal law cases I have won for my clients.

CHARGES DISMISSED

     1. RAPE CHARGES DISMISSED against 21-year-old marine.

My client, a 21-year-old marine, was accused of raping a woman after spending the night drinking with friends. He had been partying at a local club when he got separated from his buddies and was approached by several males and females. The strangers asked him to withdraw money from an ATM and invited him to a party. My client lost his money while playing cards with the three men. One of the men said it was okay for my client to have sex with his girlfriend.

My client, who was very drunk, entered the bedroom and passed out next to the man's girlfriend. She woke up and started screaming. Her boyfriend phoned police and accused my client of breaking into the apartment and raping his girlfriend while everyone was asleep.

Before going to trial, I found out that the boyfriend was previously arrested by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officers during a major narcotics bust. Both the boyfriend and his girlfriend also had extensive criminal records. During trial, the prosecutor decided that both witnesses were not credible, and the rape charges against my client were dropped.

     2. CHARGES DISMISSED against man charged with driving under the influence (DUI).

My client, a 21-year-old male, went camping with friends. The three friends got drunk together. One of my client's friends then got into an SUV and drove on a local highway. Near the top of a mountain, the SUV turned over and rolled down an embankment. My client, who found out about the accident, drove his car to rescue his friend who had sustained life-threatening wounds. Medics flew the injured friend to the hospital and local law enforcement officers arrested my client for DUI with a blood alcohol level of 0.16%.

I convinced the DA that my client only drove drunk because he had to in order to save his friend's life. I also persuaded the District Attorney to drop the charges against my client.

     3. CHARGES DISMISSED against man arrested for threatening to shoot an FBI agent with a shotgun.

My client, a 34-year-old male, and his mother had been receiving death threats from a neighbor for several weeks—ever since my client had contacted police and reported the neighbor's illegal drug activity.

An undercover FBI officer who had been investigating a nearby house believed to harbor large quantities of marijuana went to my client's house and demanded that someone come out of the house. My client asked the undercover agent to give his identity. The FBI agent started swearing at my client instead.

My client got a gun from inside his house, went to his porch, held the rifle at his side, and gave the agent another chance to ID himself.

The FBI agent lied and told police that my client pointed the rifle at him and threatened to shoot him. I defended my client at the trial, where it soon became obvious that the agent's testimony was false. The judge convinced the prosecution to drop the charges against my client.

     4. CHARGES DISMISSED against man arrested for threatening to blow up a plane at the San Diego airport.

My client, a 47-year-old Las Vegas resident, was at the San Diego airport waiting to board a flight home. He became very drunk and started talking to himself and making weird statements to people around him. He even said that he was planning to bomb the next airplane that arrived.

A law enforcement officer arrested him for making a terrorist threat. During his preliminary hearing, several travelers and the policeman who arrested him testified that my client did not seem to know what he was doing or saying and was very intoxicated. The charges were dropped due to a failure to prove that my client had purposely meant to issue any kind of threat at all.

NOT GUILTY VERDICTS

     1. Mexican national charged with COCAINE POSSESSION FOR SALE found NOT GUILTY

My client, a 43-year-old Mexican national, had met a coworker after work at a local bar. He later invited the coworker to sit in the car with him, listen to music, and smoke cigarettes. A police car pulled up to them, and the coworker put a bag containing eight (8) grams of cocaine and a small metric scale inside the door tray located on the inside of the front passenger door. The coworker tried running away, got caught by police, and was released. My client was the one who was charged with cocaine possession because he owned the car where the drugs were found.

If convicted of cocaine possession for sale, my client, who has lived in the U.S. for the last 20 years with his wife and children, faced deportation back to Mexico. I successfully defended my client during the trial and proved to the jury that the cocaine belonged to the coworker—whose attempt to run away from police was another evidence of guilt. The jury returned a not guilty verdict on my client's behalf.

     2. Navy seaman found NOT GUILTY in Federal Court for conspiracy to smuggle marijuana across the Mexican border.

A shipmate persuaded my client, a 21-year old navy seaman, to go to Mexico to buy a used auto at a discounted price. It turns out that this shipmate was a Mexican national who would recruit seamen to go to Mexico, buy cars, and distract them while other people loaded large amounts of marijuana onto the cars. The shipmen would then unknowingly smuggle the drugs across the US-Mexico border. In this instance, the shipmate tried to get my client to smuggle 200-pounds of pot across the border without his knowledge.

My client and the shipmate were caught by law enforcement officers. The shipmate, however, cooperated with Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officials and said my client was part of a plot to smuggle pot across the border.

Since the shipman had provided contradicting sworn testimony to Naval Criminal Investigative Agents regarding what happened, I was able to expose the shipman as a liar who committed perjury under oath during the trial. A jury found my client not guilty.

     3. Man Found NOT GUILTY For DUI arrest in San Diego.

Police stopped my client, a 38-year-old male, who had been driving up highway 101 at 40mph in a 35mph zone in San Diego. The deputy sheriff gave my client field sobriety tests and arrested my client for driving under the influence and having a blood alcohol level of 0.18%.

My client testified at trial that, after being released on bail, he noticed that $100 was missing from his wallet. I asked the deputy sheriff to explain the money's disappearance during cross-examination. The deputy started stuttering and said he knew nothing about the money's disappearance. It took the jury 30 minutes to deliver a not guilty verdict for my client.

     4. Jury finds Border Patrol agent NOT GUILTY of assaulting neighbor with a gun and ATTEMPTED MURDER.

My client, a Border Patrol agent, exited his home with his duty firearm after a 22-year-old neighbor threatened to kill my client's wife and some children with a large hunting knife. My client tried to arrest the neighbor for making criminal threats.

Police appeared at the scene and arrested my client based on false accusations by the neighbor and his mother who had called law enforcement officers.

In front of a jury, the children (ages 8-15) whose life had been threatened testified and said that my client had only been trying to arrest the neighbor. It turns out that the police had never even questioned the children about what happened. My client was found not guilty by the jury and released.

     5. Jury finds Husband NOT GUILTY of MURDER of wife.

My client, a pharmaceutical salesmen, suspected his wife of cheating on him with a neighbor. He confronted his wife and slapped and threw her on the living room floor. Police arrested my client for domestic violence and client was prosecuted for corporal injury upon a spouse. Client pleaded guilty and was in the middle of his Domestic Violence counseling program when his wife was shot to death in her car on the driveway of their suburban home. Police arrested Client for his wife's murder, even though he had a solid alibi for his presence at the counseling session from one of the other attendees. I hired a firearms expert who scrapped off some human tissue from the trigger of the murder weapon. DNA tests showed that the tissue belonged to another person, but the prosecutor refused to interview and take DNA samples from the neighbor who had been having an affair with the client's wife. Case went to trial. The combination of the alibi testimony and the DNA testing, as well as corroboration of the neighbor's affair with the client's wife, resulted in the jury finding my client NOT GUILTY of MURDER. Prosecutors did not investigate and prosecute the neighbor after my client was acquitted.

IF YOU ARE CHARGED WITH COMMITTING A CRIME IN LOS ANGELES, LONG BEACH, OR ANY OTHER AREA OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, CONTACT ATTORNEY STEPHEN R. BRODSKY, TODAY, FOR A FREE CONSULTATION ON HOW TO PREPARE A WINNING DEFENSE STRATEGY IN YOUR CASE! CALL US TODAY  TOLL FREE AT 1-800-988-8409 OR CONTACT US ONLINE.