Interviewer: What is the best way to contact you? Email? Phone? Once a client comes in the door, especially pertaining to a DUI case. Rob: Well our phone is on 24 hours a day, someone is answering it 24 hours a day. So they can call to set up an appointment, at times we can…
Interviewer: I guess a question in there, what do you think is their percentage of error in this standardized testing? It sounds like it could be all over the board with what you just said. Robert J. Callahan: There’s so many factors involved. If you have a police officer who has written 1,000 DUIs in…
Interviewer: I get the point. Definitely looked at in 2014 as compared to 1999, very different in public perception and the zeal at which prosecutors go at people with DUI charges. I think it’s more of the public perception of prosecuting the crime and where some prosecutor can hang some guy out to dry whether…
Sergeant LS is a 13 year veteran of the United States Military. He honorably served our country in both Iraq and Afghanistan. During his distinguished career Sergeant LS has received over 20 different service medals. Under the Code of Military Justice, a drug conviction for a Sergeant is an automatic discharge from the Armed Services….
During a blizzard in February, JG was arrested for driving on a revoked license. At the time, his driver’s license was suspended because of a previous driving under the influence of alcohol conviction. This was JG’s third ticket for driving with a revoked/suspended license. Therefore, JG was facing a felony charge. On the day of…
HM was waved over at a roadside safety seat belt checkpoint last summer by a south suburban police department. One officer directed him to an area where other officers were ticketing drivers for seat belt violations. Upon running his license number through dispatch, the officer discovered that HM’s driver’s license was revoked for DUI. He…
Way back in 1997 BB was arrested and charged with Possession with Intent to Deliver over 100 grams of heroin. When he didn’t appear at his scheduled Preliminary Hearing, the sitting Judge issued a No Bail Warrant for his arrest. BB went on with his life and moved with his family to another state. BB’s…
BR retained our office this month to represent him at his Preliminary Hearing for Delivery of a Controlled Substance. Officers claimed to have witnessed BR participate in 2 suspected drug transactions. At the first court appearance, the officer failed to show for an unspecified medical reason. We demanded a preliminary hearing. The judge allowed the…
As a result of a domestic disturbance last summer, IO found her apartment occupied by several Chicago Police Officers. She had called the police on her boyfriend, who was intoxicated and threatening to hurt her. When officers arrived they confronted the boyfriend who exclaimed “she’s got drugs in the apartment! I can show you.” He…
Last summer FT was seated on a porch with several friends when local police officers approached him. FT was speaking on his cell phone at the time, and he got up and began walking away. One of the officers detained him and placed him into custody. They returned to the porch, searched the area and…
