Domestic Violence, DUI, felony - has Cobb Criminal Defense Law Firm handled criminal law cases like mine?”  Out of the thousands of cases we have handled, here are just a few.  No criminal defense lawyer can guarantee a particular result.  Each case is different. Past success is no indicator of what will happen in your case.

Case Number 05-MMC-1936: One count of Domestic Violence (Battery). Dismissed on August 1, 2006 with a 'No Prosecution.'

Case Numbers 07-CT-436 & 06-MM-650 Violation of Driver's License Restriction and Violation of Probation (DUI): On probation for a Florida DUI, when involved in a business related driving accident. Charged - erroneously and unlawfully - with driving in violation of restricted post-DUI license. Dismissed after we filed a Motion to Suppress Evidence Unlawfully Obtained.

Case Number 02-CT-294-S DUI (Breath Test Refusal ): Found Not Guilty after a Bench Trial.

Case Number 06-MMSA-209: Our client was falsely charged with Domestic Violence (Battery). We filed a FRCP 3.190(c)(4) Motion to Dismiss and the case was dismissed in open court. 

Case Numbers 05-CFS-3138: Capital Sexual Battery as Counts 3 & 4. Lewd & Lascivious Molestation were Counts 1 & 2. Capital means life sentence with no parole.  Verbal and a written confession. Probably would have been found guilty on all counts, but Florida criminal lawyer Stephen G. Cobb successfully argued that Florida Statute 918.19 was unconstitutional. Not Guilty on the two counts of Capital Sexual Battery, guilty of the two Lewd & Lascivious counts.

Case Numbers 05-CFC 1132, 05-CFC-1133, and 05-CFC-1134: Dangerous Violation of Community Control case with three counts of Burglary, two counts of petit theft, and one count of Grand Theft of a Firearm. Most firearm cases carry minimum mandatory prison sentences, even for first offenses. Each was dismissed.

Case Number 04-MMSA-3925: Our client was charged with Domestic Violence even though the supposed victim, had actually attacked our client in our client's own home.  Dismissed at jury selection.

Case Number 06-CFCA-1110: Our client did not speak English, and was charged erroneously for felony Theft From a Construction Site and Trespass at a Construction Site. This case had a complication: My client was a legal immigrant who wanted to protect his green card. "Insufficient evidence" resulted in a dismissal.

Case Number 05-MMCA-206: One count of Open House Party, a misdemeanor. 'No Prosecution' file in March of 2006.

Case Number 05-CFSA-1780: Our client was charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance, a third degree felony.  Dismissed.

Case Number 04-CFSA-1985: Our client was charged with Felony Possession of a Controlled Substance and Trespass After Warning in Okaloosa County, Florida.  He admitted the Trespass charge and even wrote a letter of apology.  A Shalimar, Florida jury acquitted him after only sixteen minutes of deliberations. 

Case Number 05-CFSA-819-02: Our client was charged with Felony Battery on a Law Enforcement Officer and misdemeanor Possession of Alcohol by a Person Under Age 21.  Dismissed.

Case Number 05-CFA-576 (Division B): Our client was charged with Aggravated Fleeing and Attempting to Elude, and misdemeanor Resisting Arrest without Violence.  Dismissed.

Case Number 05-MMSA-1610: Violation of an Injunction for Protection Against Domestic Violence.  Injunctions are very easy to get, and it is very easy for someone to be charged with breaking them: Testimony is evidence, so if someone swears it was broken, someone else gets arrested.  Dismissed on the date of Jury Selection.

Case Number 03-CTSA-988: DUI Driver's License suspension.  After DUI Implied Consent Hearing, the license was returned.

Case Number 05-MMSA-676: Non-domestic battery. Jury verdict: Not Guilty

Case Number 04-CTSA-2816 Driving Under the Influence (DUI): Split decision: Lost the Driver's License hearing but won the DUI case after a trial by jury. 

Case Number 04-CFSA-2721: Our client was charged with Burglary of an Unoccupied Structure and Battery - a very serious combination of charges.  However, the evidence uncovered showed that the complaining witnesses were not truthful and that they were actually involved in criminal activity.  The case was referred to Pre-Trial Intervention for dismissal.

Case Number 05-MM-142: False Domestic Violence charge in DeFuniak Springs, Florida.  After extensive pre-trial discovery, the case was dismissed at Docket Call.

Case Number 97-CFSA-1187: Our client was charged with two counts of Capital Sexual Battery on a Child Under Twelve.  The State amended the Information of Indictment to add two additional counts of Lewd & Lascivious Act on a Child Under Sixteen.  Not Guilty by an all woman jury.

Case Number 99-628-CFSA-02: Our client was charged with Accessory After the Fact to First Degree Murder in a gruesome beating and burning death case.  Charges were dismissed on the day of jury selection.

Case Number 02-828-CTSA: Our client was charged with DUI with a breath test above .08.  The first trial by jury ended with a mistrial when the State elicited improper testimony.  Our client was found Not Guilty after the second jury trial.

Case Numbers 07-CFSA-1010 & 07-CFSA- 1803 Felony Driving on a Suspend, Cancelled or Revoked License (2 counts), Possession of a Controlled Substance (2 counts) and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (2 counts). Our client had no viable defense - none. The State wanted 18 months in state prison and nothing less. A third DWLS/R is a felony. These were our client's fourth and fifth. Sentenced to Community Control followed by probation with suspended prison sentence.

Case Number 03-CFSA-542 Felony Drug Possession: The 'evidence' was seized as the product of an illegal search and seizure.  Due to the unlawful conduct of law enforcement, the evidence was suppressed and not allowed at trial.  Dismissed.

Case Number 00-CFA-582 Felony Drug Possession:  Motion to Suppress evidence was denied by the Circuit Court.  Appeal followed.  The First District Court of Appeals reversed the Circuit Court’s denial and ordered that our client’s sentence vacated.   

Case Number 00-CFSA-479A Aggravated Battery with Great Bodily Harm: This is a mandatory prison offense.  Dismissed due to insufficient evidence.

Case Number 99-1732-MMCA: Our client was a young soldier accused of resisting the police unlawfully when he told them that they could not go into a friend’s house without a warrant.  The police did, and he called 911 to report their unlawful entry.  In retaliation, they arrested him.  A jury of his peers had the last word: Not Guilty.

Case Number 04-39-CMSA Domestic Violence: Diversion program whereby charges were dismissed upon completion of the program.  While pending, the No Contact provision was changed to allow our client to return home to his wife.

Case Number 02-1353-CF Felony Drug Possession.  Referred to a Pre-Trial Diversion program and dismissed.

Case Number 01-165A-DD-MM DUI: Dismissed once it was shown that there was medical evidence that our client had no drugs in her system, insufficient blood alcohol level and conflicting testimony by the police.

Case Number 95- 733-CFA: Felony Possession of a Firearm and Improper Exhibition of a Firearm. Dismissed during trial.