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Editor: Will Hanlon & Charlie Lambert
Profession: Tampa Defense Attorneys

Category: Criminal Law

CASE#05-CF-021483; Judge Chet Tharpe; Date: July 26, 2006

FACTS: The defendant was accused of chasing his 9 year old step-son and striking him with a set of keys in the head. According to the State the laceration caused severe bleeding, and the defendant was charged with Felony Child Abuse.

DEFENSE: We contended that the blow to the boy was not intentional. After discovery depositions and investigation it became clear that the mother of the children was not credible in that she made the allegation over a week after the incident, and only in an attempt to have the defendant removed from his own property.

RESULT: The child abuse charge was dropped.