{"id":262,"date":"2025-01-12T17:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T17:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sldp.net\/legalpaz\/?p=262"},"modified":"2025-10-28T20:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:57:36","slug":"success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sldp.net\/legalpaz\/blog\/2025\/01\/12\/success\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful Criminal Defense case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">2025. A client was arrested and charged with knocking out a stranger.&nbsp; Having done so with his fist.&nbsp; The stranger had to go to an Emergency Room via ambulance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;\">The client had been charged with a &#8220;Class 1&#8221; misdemeanor, which is right up next to a felony in severity. &nbsp; <\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-263 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sldp.net\/legalpaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/felonies_misdemeanors-300x247.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sldp.net\/legalpaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/felonies_misdemeanors-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sldp.net\/legalpaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/felonies_misdemeanors.jpg 737w\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"525\"><\/p>\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">The above graphic was valid as of 01\/12\/2025. The client was facing $2,500 in fines plus surcharges, up to six months in jail, with 3 years in probation.\u00a0 Not to mention having to wait 3 years before eligible for expungement. Jack convinced the prosecutor to reduce his client&#8217;s charge to a &#8220;Class 3&#8221; misdemeanor.\u00a0 While he did have to pay the &#8220;victim&#8221; restitution and ordered to take an Anger Management class (outside of the state of Arizona), the defendant was not sentenced to any jail-time and received no fines, no surcharges, no probation.\u00a0 The waiting period for expungement eligibility was also lowered to 2 years as opposed to 3 (if the original charge had not been lowered).<\/p>\r\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sldp.net\/legalpaz\/blog\/2025\/03\/02\/case-dismissed\/\">But wait, that&#8217;s not all!&nbsp; Click here to see Jack got the case completely dismissed for his client (after four prosecutors having been involved)!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1st Successful Criminal Defense Case of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,24,25,22,3,28,4,29,26],"tags":[12,32,38,34,35,31,33,36,37],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arizona","category-criminal","category-criminal-defense","category-facing-a-legal-issue-can-feel-overwhelming","category-hearings","category-justice-court","category-law","category-maricopa-county","category-misdemeanor","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-criminal-charges","tag-criminal-defense","tag-justice","tag-justice-court","tag-misdemeanor","tag-municipal","tag-municipal-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sldp.net\/legalpaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sldp.net\/legalpaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sldp.net\/legalpaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sldp.net\/legalpaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sldp.net\/legalpaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/sldp.net\/legalpaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/sldp.net\/legalpaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sldp.net\/legalpaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sldp.net\/legalpaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sldp.net\/legalpaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sldp.net\/legalpaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}