Case Results

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  • Rape Charges Dropped / Restraining Order
    Domestic Violence
    • County: Pinellas
    • Facts: The client was accused of domestic violence/rape by his ex-wife and faced substantial prison time. The wife obtained a temporary restraining order (injunction) significantly limiting the client’s contact with his children. The client retained the Morris Law Firm to represent him on the rape charge and the injunction.
    • Outcome:  The Morris Law Firm was successful in negotiating with the State to dismiss (No Info) the rape charge.  Further, the Morris Law Firm represented the client at the wife’s hearing for a permanent restraining order (injunction).  The judge denied the wife’s request for a permanent injunction based on arguments put forth by the Morris Law Firm.
  • Injunction Denied
    Domestic Violence
    • County: Pinellas
    • Facts: The client was accused of domestic violence/rape by his ex-wife and faced substantial prison time. The wife obtained a temporary restraining order (injunction) significantly limiting the client’s contact with his children. The client retained the Morris Law Firm to represent him on the rape charge and the injunction.
    • Outcome:  The Morris Law Firm was successful in negotiating with the State to dismiss (No Info) the rape charge.  Further, the Morris Law Firm represented the client at the wife’s hearing for a permanent restraining order (injunction).  The judge denied the wife’s request for a permanent injunction based on arguments put forth by the Morris Law Firm.
  • Injunction Denied
    Domestic Violence
    • County: Pinellas
    • Facts: The client was accused of domestic violence/rape by his ex-wife and faced substantial prison time. The wife obtained a temporary restraining order (injunction) significantly limiting the client’s contact with his children. The client retained the Morris Law Firm to represent him on the rape charge and the injunction.
    • Outcome:  The Morris Law Firm was successful in negotiating with the State to dismiss (No Info) the rape charge.  Further, the Morris Law Firm represented the client at the wife’s hearing for a permanent restraining order (injunction).  The judge denied the wife’s request for a permanent injunction based on arguments put forth by the Morris Law Firm.
  • Injunction Denied
    Domestic Violence
    • County: Hillsborough
    • Facts: The client was accused of sexually assaulting her cousin. The client retained the Morris Law Firm to represent her in the Injunction Hearing. The client asserted that there was no inappropriate contact. The client faced a permanent injunction that could have resulted in a no-contact order with her cousin, as well as a permanent injunction on her record.
    • Outcome: The Morris Law Firm performed a significant investigation and deposed all parties to the injunction.  The Morris Law Firm argued that there was insufficient evidence to warrant the injunction.  The Morris Law Firm was successful in arguing against the injunction.
  • Nolle Prosequi (dismissed)
    Domestic Violence
    • County: Pinellas
    • Facts: The client accepted into the Navy Seals program until domestic battery arrest put his acceptance in jeopardy. Navy would no longer accept clients to serve in the military with a domestic violence conviction. The alleged victim was the client’s wife. The client had no prior arrest record.
    • Outcome: The client hired an attorney from the Morris Law Firm and the Morris Law Firm was successful in getting the State to dismiss (Nolle Prosse) the client’s domestic battery charge.
  • Reduced to Disorderly Conduct
    Domestic Violence
    • County: Pinellas
    • Facts: Client is a successful local business owner in Dunedin, Florida. Client along with his wife, children and friends had been out on their boat to watch the Christmas boat parade. Once back at the Dunedin Marina client and his wife began to argue. An off-duty sheriff’s deputy also at the marina that night believed he saw client strike his wife in the face and detained client while he summoned on-duty deputies. Both the client, his wife, and the client’s friend denied a battery occurred but law enforcement believed the off-duty deputy and arrested client for Domestic Battery. Client had no prior record.
    • Outcome: The client hired the Morris Law Firm. The Morris Law Firm set the case for trial and was later successful in getting the State Attorney’s Office to reduce the Domestic Battery charge to a Disorderly Conduct charge. The client simply paid a fine and avoided a battery conviction and criminal probation.