David Remington

The cases listed below are some examples of results that can be achieved with a client’s cooperation and tenacity to
see a case through to the best possible results. Nothing listed below should be construed to indicate that your case
will be resolved the same way since each case and each client is different.


FACTS: An established businessman with thirty years of experience installing fire suppression systems and safety
hoods in restaurants was charged with obtaining property by false pretense. The prosecution contended that the
businessman had taken money from a restaurateur to install a system when he had no intention of doing the work. If
convicted, the defendant faced a maximum of thirty months in prison.


This client had previously been charged with the exact same offense in reference to another restaurateur in a case
with similar facts. In that case, the businessman, upon the advice of another prominent Constitutional and criminal
defense attorney with over twenty five years experience, pled guilty to a misdemeanor and was still on probation for
that conviction when this charge surfaced.


When charged, this client returned to that same attorney and made it clear he would not plead to anything. That
attorney referred him to the Liberty Law Center and we tried the case. The evidence showed that the businessman
had received one half of the full price in order to secure used parts for the installation of an improved system from
what the restaurant possessed. After receipt of the deposit, the restaurateur tried to hurry the job by constantly
pressuring the businessman, but was unsuccessful because the price the parties agreed upon entailed a discount
because the businessman was securing used parts from auctions. It was apparent that the restaurateur was under
pressure from his insurance company to upgrade his system or lose his insurance.


RESULT: Client was found not guilty (acquitted) at trial.


FACTS: A self-employed painter with a reputation for producing quality work was charged with seven felonies. The
charges stemmed from a break-in of a filing cabinet in a church. He was accused of conspiring with his worker to
steal checks from the cabinet in the church and forging them and then cashing the checks. He did not receive a
reasonable plea offer and decided to take it to trial.


The worker had also worked for a number of other painters in the area and none would hire him back. Client had
been kind enough to give him another chance. That same person ended up being a co-defendant in the case who
testified against our client. Evidence showed co-defendant pled guilty to breaking and entering and numerous
crimes. The evidence also revealed client was hired to paint the chapel and hallways in the church. During the
course of the job two checks were stolen and made out to the co-defendant, purportedly signed by our Client with
his own signature. Co-defendant turned out to be less than credible witness.


RESULTS: The charge of safecracking was dismissed at the end of the State’s evidence. The client was acquitted by
a jury on the remainder of the charges.


FACTS: Client was a middle-aged man with a very long criminal record. Although no Client appeared for a first
appearance in District Court on a charge of felony attempted possession of cocaine and possession of drug
paraphernalia. During his first appearance, the judge presiding told him to be quiet and Client refused. He was
taken into custody for twenty-four hours for contempt. While in a holding cell at the jail, detention officers found part
of a crack pipe with cocaine residue in Client’s cell where he sat alone. Client was charged with the felony of
possession of controlled substances on jail premises and possession of a weapon on jail premises (for the broken
glass). Client was offered a plea of consolidation of all charges and he would receive a sixteen month active
sentence. Client initially accepted plea, but then refused when he arrived in court. The District Attorney told Client
through his attorney that he would indict him as a habitual felon if he did not accept the plea. Client still refused
even though he was facing the prospect of thirty-six to forty-eight years in jail if convicted of all the felonies. The
District Attorney did in fact indict him as a habitual felon on each of his felonies.


RESULTS: State dismissed the weapon charge before indicting Client. A jury acquitted him of the possession of
controlled substances and possession of drug paraphernalia. The District Attorney chose to dismiss the attempted
possession of cocaine and other possession of drug paraphernalia.


FACTS: Client was a thirty-ish woman with no prior criminal record. She was accused of opening checking accounts
and then overdrawing them intentionally to defraud banks. Her license had been used in the commission of the
offenses and police stated that there were bank videos showing her in the bank. When confronted by police with
still photos taken from the bank’s video cameras, she denied that the photos were her. She was charged with
several felony counts of obtaining property by false pretenses and was facing possible active prison time.


RESULTS: Charges dismissed before trial.


FACTS: A young black male had been the target of several investigations by a local law enforcement agency. While
at a home in a bad part of town that he and several friends rented for next to nothing, police knocked on the door
and asked to search the home after they allege that a man found with cocaine stated he had bought it at that home
only minutes earlier. Client allowed the officers to search where they found a bag with cocaine inside of an empty
cigarette pack in a chair that had not been occupied by the Client. None of the friends who rented the home actually
lived there including client, but they instead used it a type of clubhouse and there were empty cigarette packs
strewed throughout the living room where Client had been sitting playing video games. Officers charged him with
several felonies for the cocaine.


RESULTS: Charges dismissed at the close of the state’s evidence.


FACTS: A seventeen year old black male was accused of committing sexual battery against his girlfriend’s fourteen
year old sister by touching her on her privates. The girlfriend and family are Laotian. Client brought his own case to
District Court and lost. He filed a notice of appeal and hired Liberty Law Center. At trial prosecuting witness testified
client touched her privates. The family also had the ten year old brother testify, but with a very different story than
his sister’s. Client and his girlfriend testified upon his behalf.


RESULT: Jury acquitted him in less than five minutes. The presiding Superior Court Judge said it was a new record
for him.


FACTS: A black male in his mid thirties who was recently released from prison, met a girl while on work release.
After being released permanently he moved in with the girl. They started having relationship issues and she
accused him of breaking into the apartment and stealing stuff. He was originally charged with felony breaking and
entering and felony larceny. Client was capable of being indicted as a habitual felon which carries a maximum
sentence of approximately sixteen years in prison. The Client was able to prove that the natural gas was in his name
and District Attorney offered him a misdemeanor plea offer.


RESULT: Client received supervised probation.