Manhattan Beach, Felony Possession of Methamphetamine for Sales and Probation Violation, 16 Months, Attorney Success # 6
Our client was arrested selling methamphetamine after a sting operation in downtown Manhattan Beach. An undercover police officer paid our client $1,700 in marked bills for an ounce. He then allowed our client to drive away from the scene before they arrested him on nearby Sepulveda Boulevard. It was not our client’s first arrest involving methamphetamine, although this was his first arrest for sales.
The Torrance District Attorney charged our client with two felonies for violation of California Health and Safety Code section 11378 and 11379, sale and possession of a controlled substance, respectively.
At the time of the arrest, our client was on probation for a separate felony out of another Los Angeles County courthouse, as well as a misdemeanor out of a third courthouse, also in Los Angeles County. One of the probation violation cases with consolidated with Torrance case, but not the other one.
Our client, due to his prior record, was facing a maximum of eight years and the District Attorney first offered three years. There was not a lot of facts to help our client.
Greg Hill negotiated with the Torrance District Attorney to where our client was offered two years of prison. Then, with the help of Greg Hill, our client wrote a detailed letter explaining his history of serving in Iraq with the U.S. Marine Corps and discovering he was homosexual, and further, that he was HIV positive. The letter detailed his difficulties in life and how his recent conduct was a catastrophic reaction to his life seeming to come undone, especially because he was from a traditional family who worked very hard.
The District Attorney, in response to the letter from our client, reduced the offer to 16 months, which our client accepted. Greg Hill then worked to get one of the probation violation cases dismissed and pled no contest to the other one, asking that any sentence run concurrent with the 16 months our client had agreed to serve. The court agreed. Our client was very pleased to be realistically looking at confinement of less than a year, rather than perhaps four plus years if convicted at trial and sentenced to eight years in prison.
If you or a loved one has been charged with possession of a controlled substance or possession for sale of a controlled substance, call our offices. If you have prior convictions for such crimes, call our office, as our record of plea bargaining is excellent.
Call (310) 782-2500 and speak to our office. We want to help you. Call 24 hours a day. We will listen to you. No detail is insignificant. We take nothing for granted. Call us today.
The Torrance District Attorney charged our client with two felonies for violation of California Health and Safety Code section 11378 and 11379, sale and possession of a controlled substance, respectively.
At the time of the arrest, our client was on probation for a separate felony out of another Los Angeles County courthouse, as well as a misdemeanor out of a third courthouse, also in Los Angeles County. One of the probation violation cases with consolidated with Torrance case, but not the other one.
Our client, due to his prior record, was facing a maximum of eight years and the District Attorney first offered three years. There was not a lot of facts to help our client.
Greg Hill negotiated with the Torrance District Attorney to where our client was offered two years of prison. Then, with the help of Greg Hill, our client wrote a detailed letter explaining his history of serving in Iraq with the U.S. Marine Corps and discovering he was homosexual, and further, that he was HIV positive. The letter detailed his difficulties in life and how his recent conduct was a catastrophic reaction to his life seeming to come undone, especially because he was from a traditional family who worked very hard.
The District Attorney, in response to the letter from our client, reduced the offer to 16 months, which our client accepted. Greg Hill then worked to get one of the probation violation cases dismissed and pled no contest to the other one, asking that any sentence run concurrent with the 16 months our client had agreed to serve. The court agreed. Our client was very pleased to be realistically looking at confinement of less than a year, rather than perhaps four plus years if convicted at trial and sentenced to eight years in prison.
If you or a loved one has been charged with possession of a controlled substance or possession for sale of a controlled substance, call our offices. If you have prior convictions for such crimes, call our office, as our record of plea bargaining is excellent.
Call (310) 782-2500 and speak to our office. We want to help you. Call 24 hours a day. We will listen to you. No detail is insignificant. We take nothing for granted. Call us today.