Three separate felony arrests over seven months: Fleeing and Eluding a Marked Law Enforcement Vehicle (May 2022); Fleeing to Elude at High Speed with Disregard for Safety, Carrying a Concealed Firearm, and Resisting an Officer (October 2022); and Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon involving a firearm while already under indictment on the first two cases (December 2022)
Each arrest compounded the client's legal exposure. By the time of the third arrest, a domestic violence aggravated assault with a firearm, the client was already facing two open felony cases. Counsel managed all three simultaneously, identifying a critical defense on Case 2: the client held a valid Florida Medical Marijuana Use Registry card at the time of arrest, which directly undercut the drug-related charges. A Notice of Proof of Medical Marijuana Card was filed, and those counts were resolved accordingly.
Rather than allow the State to prosecute each case independently and stack the exposure, counsel negotiated a global resolution covering all three cases in a single plea. The most serious felony counts, including the concealed firearm charge and the aggravated assault, were either nolle prossed or resolved with adjudication withheld, meaning no felony conviction on those counts. The client avoided prison entirely, avoided a felony record on the most serious charges, and served 18 months of probation. On three felony cases filed within seven months of each other, that outcome required holding all the pieces together at once.
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