{"id":49,"date":"2018-11-15T07:06:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T07:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mytsys.in\/personalinjury\/?p=49"},"modified":"2018-11-15T07:06:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T07:06:55","slug":"state-v-b-t-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spanishinjury.aolegal.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"STATE V. B.T. (DRUG TRAFFICKING)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p class=\"style21\" align=\"justify\">The client was charged with drug trafficking and had hired a prominent Fort Lauderdale attorney to represent him.\u00a0 However, after hiring the attorney, the client realized that his needs were not being met and he was being pressured into taking a plea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style21\" align=\"justify\">After meeting with Mr. O\u2019Toole, a new theory of a defense surfaced.\u00a0 The defense of entrapment by the police!\u00a0 Mr. O\u2019Toole quickly hired an expert in jury consulting to see how the defense would go over in front of a jury.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t look good.\u00a0 Two out of ten jurors in the mock trials believed the Defendant was entrapped.\u00a0 This meant there was an 80% chance of him being convicted at trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style21\" align=\"justify\">On the day of trial, the lead detective and prosecutor had a closed door meeting with Mr. O\u2019Toole calling his theory of entrapment crazy and that the client should take a plea to avoid a more lengthy prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style21\" align=\"justify\">Mr. O\u2019Toole did not give up and neither did the client.\u00a0 Mr. O\u2019Toole narrowed his focus and at trial, he called the lead \u201cdetective\u201d and lead \u201ccreative\u201d because of the fact that he created this crime.\u00a0 That is, he caused the Defendant to commit the crime by asserting pressure and rushing the deal while the Defendant was hesitant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style21\" align=\"justify\">The closing argument was brilliant and the jury came back with a\u00a0<strong>NOT GUILTY\u00a0<\/strong>on the drug trafficking charge as a result of police entrapment.<strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Following the trial, the lead detective told Mr. O\u2019Toole that he was a brilliant trial lawyer.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-dismissals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spanishinjury.aolegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spanishinjury.aolegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spanishinjury.aolegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spanishinjury.aolegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spanishinjury.aolegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spanishinjury.aolegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spanishinjury.aolegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spanishinjury.aolegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spanishinjury.aolegal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}