Court Wins & Cases

Firm Case Number: 2013-05-0500901
Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon
Possession of a Gun with Defaced Identification Marks
DISMISSED

Bridgeview Courthouse Room 109

Chicago Police Officers watched our client driving near Morgan Park High School when they saw that his passenger did not have a seat belt on. They pulled our client over, claimed to smell cannabis, ordered everyone out of the car, searched everyone, and then claimed to have found a gun. The squad car was equipped with a video camera which recorded the entire incident. The police department destroyed the video. Attorney Levinsohn filed a motion, under People v. Kladis, to prevent the police from testifying about anything that would have been on the video that was destroyed by the police. The court granted the motion and the case was Dismissed.

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Our client was outside talking to some friends when Chicago Police officers came up to his car and started opening up his gas tank lid. They claimed to have found drugs and then searched the trunk where they found a gun which belonged to our client’s brother. At a motion to suppress, I proved to the judge that the police had no right to search our client’s car. The case was DISMISSED.

Chicago Police Officer Morlock claimed our client did not have his seat belt on and pulled him over. During the stop, Officer Morlock then reached into the car and grabbed a baby bottle from behind driver’s seat. The bottle was full of purple liquid codeine and our client was arrested. At trial I obtained vehicle records from Indiana proving that our client was just borrowing the car and had not seen the bottle. That was the key to the case. The judge found him NOT GUILTY.

Our client was accused of participating in a beating and a robbery in Dolton. They claimed that he used a taser to injury another person and then rob that person of her phone which was found in his jacket pocket. I found the complaining witness and video taped a statement from her exonerated our client of the battery and robbery. He pleaded guilty to theft of lost property and received 1 day time considered served. Our client was released and the  felony counts were dismissed.

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My client was driving home late at night during the winter on 139th Street in Dixmoor. Because of poor driving conditions his car went off the road into a snow bank and was towed to the police station. When he arrived the Officer Sahloul wanted search his vehicle. The officer had the tow truck operator break into the car where marijuana was found. At a motion to suppress, we proved that Officer Shloul had no right to search the vehicle at that point. The case was dismissed.

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Call Markham drug defense attorney Mike Levinsohn at 312 919-0200