Our Client's Success Stories

Our client, whom we successfully removed from the sex offender registry, told us his information appeared on a commercial website that routinely posts profiles of registered sex offenders. One of our Tehachapi sex offender registration termination attorneys immediately and without further ado drafted legal correspondence, specifically referencing and incorporating the court order that resulted in our clients removal from the Sex Offender registry. Within approximately 20 minutes, personnel from that website contacted us to let us know they removed our client from that website. We tested it to see if it was still there and it was indeed removed. Client was ecstatic about and appreciative of our efficiency and rapidity.

Norwalk courthouse, a venue notorious for being particularly difficult for petitioning registrants due to adamant DA opposition, granted a petition to terminate Sex Offender registration that we filed on behalf of our client. Our client is thoroughly grateful for the zealous advocacy. We provided on his behalf and is looking forward to beginning the next chapter of his life without the crushing stigma of lifetime, sex offender, registration, and Megan‘s law website (and “mirror sites”) publication.

Our client, a gentleman in his 60s was also a veteran, was previously (through prior counsel) convicted of a sex offender registrable offense. He, relayed to us that his life was an unrelenting hellscape of nonstop persecution, harassment and vitriol directed at him by people who discovered his registerable sex offender status. Before hiring our firm, he previously paid another lawyer who did nothing or next to nothing for him. Our San Jose Sex Offender Registration Termination Attorneys gathered a litany of supporting documents, intended to be packaged with a powerful memorandum of points in authorities in the event the prosecutor would object to his case. Despite the odds against him, our Santa Clara, county courthouse sex offender registration termination law firm succeeded and our client is no longer on the sex offender registry. When we notified him of the news, our client became deeply emotional, and, through tears of joy, expressed his eternal gratitude to our skilled and committed sex offender registration termination lawyers for getting him his life back, no longer anchored to the registry nor exposed on the World Wide Web as a sex offender.

Before becoming our client, a PC 290 Registrant approached our firm because he was previously convicted (though former counsel) of having violated Penal Code §311.11 (a), possession of obscene matter involving a minor depicting a sexual act, and wanted to pursue a reduction of his felony conviction to a misdemeanor and reduction of his lifetime tier 3 status. He had been sentenced to sixty (60) months of probation, a suspended sentence of 365 days in jail and the payment of a fine and restitution. Pursuant to existing law at the time of the writing, a Penal Code §311.11(a) conviction is considered a Tier 3, i.e, lifetime sex offender registrable offense. Our client had previously spoken to other attorneys, who, perhaps predicated on their ignorance of the applicable law, said he would have to register for life and that nothing could be done. Our San Fernando Courthouse Sex Offender Registration Termination Attorneys assembled a powerful and persuasive memorandum of points and authorities with a multitude of supporting exhibits arguing the merits of why our clients felony 311.11a conviction should be reduced to a misdemeanor pursuant to Penal Code Section 17(b). Apparently our motion was so convincing, the court took the hearing (corresponding to our motion) off calendar and proceeded to grant the motion without the necessity of appearing in person and delivering verbal argument. The reduction will result in our client’s tier level designation to be reduced from lifetime tier 3 to the lowest tier, i.e, Tier 1, empowering us to petition for removal from the registry all together on his behalf at the close of his mandatory minimum registration period. Our client was moved to tears with joy and gratitude to our firm and looks forward to the next critical stage of his case.

Our client had previously been convicted (when represented by prior counsel) of having violated California Penal Code section 288 (a), lewd or lascivious acts involving a minor under 14. Given the infamy of the crime for which he was convicted (and the egregious details of his case), our client was previously told by some lawyers and nonlawyers that the odds of him getting off the Registry were slim to none. However, our Madera County Sex Offender Registration Termination Attorneys reviewed his case and discovered he was in fact eligible to petition off the Registry. This did not stop them from preparing for the possibility of an objection from the district attorney. Despite the odds against our client, our Madera Courthouse Sex Offender Registration Termination Lawyers prevailed: the court granted the petition. Our client can now begin the next chapter of his life without the dark shadow of lifetime sex offender tegistration looming over him.

Before becoming our client, the petitioner, a resident of San Joaquin County, was previously convicted (through prior counsel) of a sex offender registrable-offense in or about the year 2000. As a result of this, he was required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life in addition to being profiled on the Megans Law website. Needless to say, the petitioner was made to end her the various indignities of being profiled as, in effect, a registered convicted child molester. This had an adverse impact on his ability to get and maintain the employment of his choice, as well as his standing in the community (i.e., being shunned, ostracized and periodically threatened and persecuted on account of his sex offender identity). Having had enough of the stigma associated with his PC 290 status, this man retained the services of our stockton sex offender registration termination attorneys. Despite the fact that our client ostensibly or apparently was eligible to petition for rempval from the PC 290 registry, our San Joaquin County sex offender termination petition lawyers did not take our clients Tier 2 status for granted; in fact, our law firm anticipated that the prosecutor would object to the petition, especially given that our client had been accused of child molestation again 6 years after his PC 290 conviction by the same accusing party. Sure enough, shortly after the removal petition was filed with the court, the Stockton district attorney’s office objected to our client’s petition and asked the court to hold a hearing on the petition because “the petitioner’s continued registration would know significantly enhance community safety”. Our California community safety hearing trial lawyers conducted extensive legal research and drafted a memorandum of points and authorities packed with powerful, persuasive, and compelling legal argumentation countering the prosecutor’s objection. In addition, a mental health expert evaluated our client’s level of risk of recidivism and administered a battery of psychological tests. The mental health evaluation yielded that our client bears little to no risk of repeat offending. Despite this, the prosecutor did not withdraw its objection. Our Stockton sex offender registration termination trial attorney appeared in court and persuaded the judge to grant our client’s petition for removal from the registry over the objection of the district attorney. The Stockton courthouse granted the petition. Our client can now begin the next chapter of his life no longer encumbered or stigmatized by his previous sex offender registration requirement, and is eternally grateful for our representation.

Before becoming our client, a gentleman in his late middle age (Registrant) residing in Stanislaus county approached our office after previously (many decades prior) having been convicted of a sex offender registrable offense. Despite his high intelligence and potential, this Registrant faced various impasses to further achievement. the stigma of being identified as a sex offender robbed him of his tranquility and peace of mind. Our Stanislaus County Sex Offender Registration Termination Attorneys accepted representation of this Registrant. Before filing our new client’s petition, our lawyers carefully prepared for the possibility that the DA would object, which they felt was highly likely to happen. Our Attorneys cleaned our client’s record first and gathered supporting documentation showing our Registrant client was law-abiding, productive and risk-free. Just as our lawyers predicted, the prosecutor filed its objection to our clients petition to be removed from the registry. Our Modesto Sex Offender Registration Termination Attorneys submitted a colossal motion with memorandum of points and authorities and supporting documentation to show that our client met all the critical factors in the legislation that made our client worthy of being removed from the Registry. Not long after our Modesto PC 290 lawyers filed this motion, the prosecutor withdrew their initial opposition, with the DA explicitly stating our motion was the reason for the withdrawal of their objection. Sure enough, the judge granted our clients petition. He is extraordinarily grateful to us, for having successfully navigated him through the process and ultimately achieved the hoped-for outcome. He can now live the remaining chapter of his life free from the stigma and shackles of the sex offender registry and Megan’s law.

Before becoming our client, a mild mannered, middle-aged gentleman residing in San Bernardino county had previously been convicted (having been represented by prior counsel) of a sex offender registrable offense. Since then, his life has significantly deteriorated. For years, his neighbors circulated flyers containing his picture and exposing him as a registered convicted sex offender. His kids experienced harassment and bullying at school. He lost lifelong relationships and friendships. After meeting with our lawyers, this gentleman decided to retain our San Bernardino county sex offender registration termination attorneys, who first prepared for the possibility of a prosecutorial objection and then proceeded to file a petition to terminate our client’s duty to register as a sex offender. Despite the odds against our client, given the egregiousness of his prior conviction, as well as the generally conservative nature of the venue and jurisdiction in which is petition had to be filed, our San Bernardino County sex offender registration law firm SUCCEEDED in getting the court to grant our client’s petition. Our client is ecstatic that he will be able to live the next chapter of his life without the excruciating burden and stigma of his former sex offender label, all thanks to Second Chances Law Group.

Before becoming our client, an elderly gentleman residing in Hanford, was previously convicted, having been represented by the public defender, and was made to serve prison time, followed by half a decade of supervised release. Because he was convicted of California Penal Code section 288 (a) PC, he was made to register as a sex offender per California Penal Code section 290 PC. Ever since, he was ostracized by family and friends, and faced severe employment, travel and other life limitations. Our Hanford sex offender registration termination attorneys undertook representation of his case, gathered supporting documents, and assembled powerful legal arguments in anticipation of a potential prosecutorial objection to his petition. Sure enough our Hanford courthouse sex attorneys prevailed, and our client is now off the sex offender registry, eternally grateful to us for having accomplished this amazing outcome and ready to begin the next chapter of his now registry-three life.

Our office was approached by a gentleman with quite the checkered past that included a bevy of criminal convictions (all through previous lawyers). Among these were the offenses (more than one) as well as a sex crime conviction that required him to register as a sex offender. However, these were part of a previous, darker chapter in our client’s life before he changed for the better. He is now a diligent and caring head of household and provider for his family. Despite his ascent from an ignominious past, our client found himself being severely limited on account of his criminal conviction, realizing that he was sufficiently educated and talented enough to obtain far better employment than what he had at the time he retained our services. Our West Covina Petty Theft, with the prior expungement attorneys went to work, gathering hey semblance of supporting documents that spoke volumes as to our client’s law-abiding nature as well as his decency and moral rectitude. We assembled a voluminous memorandum of points and authorities with a powerful legal argument that our client’s Penal Code section 666 conviction out to be expunged from his record under Penal Code section 1203.4 (a). Despite the odds against our client on account of a sex offender background (as well as the increased animosity against persons in the criminal justice system due to the general nationwide increase in crime), the court found that our client was sufficiently rehabilitated to justify the granting of his expungement petition. While this was a great milestone in his case (and our client is already extremely grateful for our successful outcome in his case, so far), we believe we’re are en route to ALSO petitioning him off the sex offender registry as soon as his eligibility date com

Our office was approached by a gentleman with quite the checkered past that included a bevy of criminal convictions (all through previous lawyers). Among these were the offenses (more than one) as well as a sex crime conviction that required him to register as a sex offender. However, these were part of a previous, darker chapter in our client’s life before he changed for the better. He is now a diligent and caring head of household and provider for his family. Despite his ascent from an ignominious past, our client found himself being severely limited on account of his criminal conviction, realizing that he was sufficiently educated and talented enough to obtain far better employment than what he had at the time he retained our services. Our West Covina Petty Theft, with the prior expungement attorneys went to work, gathering hey semblance of supporting documents that spoke volumes as to our client’s law-abiding nature as well as his decency and moral rectitude. We assembled a voluminous memorandum of points and authorities with a powerful legal argument that our client’s Penal Code section 666 conviction out to be expunged from his record under Penal Code section 1203.4 (a). Despite the odds against our client on account of a sex offender background (as well as the increased animosity against persons in the criminal justice system due to the general nationwide increase in crime), the court found that our client was sufficiently rehabilitated to justify the granting of his expungement petition. While this was a great milestone in his case (and our client is already extremely grateful for our successful outcome in his case, so far), we believe we’re are en route to ALSO petitioning him off the sex offender registry as soon as his eligibility date com

We were approached by middle-aged gentleman in San Jose (Santa Clara County), a registered sex offender, who was dismayed that the tier level designation letter he picked up from his annual registration office said "tier-to-be-determined." He approached other lawyers before contacting us, all of whom expressed defeatism that nothing could be done about his designation. Our San Jose Sex Offender Registration Tier Level Reduction Attorneys researched this gentleman's case and came to the irrefutable conclusion that, per Penal Code 290(d)(2)(A), he fit the criteria for Tier 2, meaning he could petition to be removed from the sex offender registry after a mandatory minimum registration period of 20 years (which, coupled with his qualifying offense code, rendered him eligible). Standing firm on the reasonable good faith belief that neither Penal Code Section 290(d)(5) nor any other statutory provision prevented our client from filing a petition to terminate duty to register as a sex offender EVEN IF our client placed in the Tier-to-be-Determined category, we filed our client's petition. The district attorney, apparently possessed of the same reasonable interpretation of the law, did not oppose the granting of our client's petition. Despite this, to avoid the risk of a summary denial of our client's petition, our firm in effect asked for and were given "leave" to procure our client's revised tier level designation WITHOUT withdrawing our client's pending petition in the interim. Our Santa Clara County tier level reduction attorneys prepared thorough legal correspondence, citing specific statutory authority, and contacted the California Department of Justice (CalDOJ) requesting the issuance of a new and accurate tier level designation letter. Just as we expected, the CalDOJ agreed with our findings and authorized the issuance of a Tier 2 level designation letter. Our client, laughing at the naysayers who said a tier reduction couldn't happen, is very grateful to us and looks forward to the court granting his petition so that he can begin the next chapter of his life, free from the "shackles" of the California sex offender registry.

We were approached by an elderly gentleman, a registered sex offender residing in Torrance, who was dismayed that his tier level designation letter said “tier-to-be-determined.” He visited with other lawyers, all of whom said nothing could be done. Our South Bay Sex Offender Registration Tier Level Reduction Attorneys researched this gentleman’s case, and came to the irrefutable conclusion that, per Penal Code 290(d)(2)(A), this Registrant fit the criteria for Tier 2, meaning he could petition to be removed from the sex offender registry after a mandatory minimum registration period of 20 years, which he had a long ago exceeded before becoming our client. Our Torrance tier level reduction attorneys prepared lengthy legal correspondence, citing specific statutory authority, and contacted the California Department of Justice (CalDOJ) requesting the issuance of a letter reflecting a new, accurate and lower tier level designation. Sure enough, the CalDOJ agreed with our findings and authorized the issuance of a Tier 2 level designation letter. Our client, laughing at the naysayers who said a tier reduction couldn’t happen in his case looks forward to having our Los Angeles sex offender registration termination law firm submitting his petition so that he can regain his freedom, dignity, and humanity. He is incredibly thankful to us for achieving such an important milestone in his case.

Our client, a former employee of a very well-known shipment and delivery company, was apprehended by loss prevention and subsequently the Baldwin Park Police Department for allegedly having stolen an iPhone (from a box intended to be shipped to a purchaser of this item) in violation of California Penal Code section 484(a). Due to his DACA status, our client was very anxious that this would impact his already-fragile immigration status of the United States. Our El Monte Courthouse Theft Charges Dismissal Attorneys went to work carefully investigating the allegations and then maneuvering for a complete dismissal of the charge. Before becoming a client, this gentleman had told us that other lawyers had told him it would be “impossible” to get the charge drop, and that he would inevitably have to serve some jail time, pay expensive restitution, and quite possibly be referred to the executive office of immigration review (EOIR) immigration court for deportation proceedings and similar dire predictions. What other attorneys found impossible, our El Monte criminal defense attorneys achieved, leveraging weaknesses in the prosecutor’s case against the DA. Sure enough, the court granted a total dismissal of the complaint. Our client is beyond ecstatic, and is extremely grateful for the results we were able to achieve on his behalf.

Our client resides in Kings County and retained the services of our Kings County Sex Offender termination attorneys to petition for his removal from the sex offender registry at the court in that county. However, because he was convicted in a different courthouse several decades earlier, we were required to notify the district attorney‘s office that originally prosecuted him. Despite the Kings County courthouse having jurisdiction over our client’s termination petition because he currently resides there, the court where he was originally convicted insisted on hearing the petition. Further, the original court also insisted on the physical presence of our attorneys to explain why any hearing on the petition should be taken off calendar. Our California sex offender, registration termination change of venue, attorneys sided the specific and relevant section of the Penal Code governing which court has jurisdiction over a sex offender, registration termination petition. Sure enough, despite the original insistence of the court on hearing a matter over which it had no jurisdiction, the court, ultimately relented and took the hearing off calendar, our client will now be able to move forward with the correct court having jurisdiction over his petition and we are confident we will be able to prevail so that he is no longer on the sex offender registry.

Our Attorneys filed a Motion for Reduction of our Client’s Felony Conviction for Penal Code 311.11(a), sometimes known as possession of illegal images, to a Misdemeanor. Despite the odds against our client, considering the infamy and severity of this crime, the California Superior Court GRANTED our motion. But we didn’t stop there. Next, after obtaining verifiable documented proof of the reduction pursuant to Penal Code 17(b), our Tier Level Reduction Attorneys prepared thorough and well-researched legal correspondence to the California Department of Justice, citing controlling statutory authority, that the correct Tier Level Designation should be revised from Tier 3-lifetime, which he would’ve remained in without the felony-to-misdemeanor reduction, to Tier 1, the lowest tier which requires only ten (10) years of registration after release before eligibility accrues to the petitioning register sex offender. The California Department of Justice GRANTED the issuance of a Tier 1 Level Designation, putting our client on the path to be able to petition for an all-out termination of his duty to register as a sex offender.

Before returning our services, our client had long ago been convicted of a registerable sex crime. His life deteriorated substantially thereafter. For example, his neighbor distributed flyer of his photo in it telling he was a sex offender, which created severe anxiety that required mental health. When his father passed away and our client had wanted ro sell the family home, the transaction almost went through because when someone told the realtor a sex offender had been living there. No longer being able to tolerate this adversity, our client retained our Ventura county sex offender registration attorneys to petition him off the registry. Given the tough reputation of this county, our attorneys anticipated a potential objection to the petition and, before filing it, gathered various supporting arguments and prepared legal argumentation in the event a community safety hearing would be necessary. Sure enough, our Ventura courthouse sex offender registration lawyers, succeeded: the granted the petition. Our client’s exact words were: “I'm speechless thank you so very much I cannot express how much this is going to change my life.”We are elated to having been the reason his life will improve dramatically.

Our client had previously been convicted of a registerable offense, which he largely attributed to his previous attorney, whom he blamed for incompetently representing him. With the damage done, he was forced to continue his life under the dark and oppressive shadow of living as a registered sex offender, coupled with the shame of being identified and conspicuously profiled on the Internet as a sex offender (with the dehumanizing and humiliating stigma that accompanied). Our Santa Clara county superior court petition to terminate sex offender registration lawyers went to work, assembling documents and preparing legal arguments in anticipation of the possibility of a prosecutorial objection against our clients petition. After extensive preparation and complying with the rigorous notification and petitioning requirements, our San Jose courthouse sex offender registration termination attorneys succeeded: the court GRANTED our client’s petition. Our client is abundantly and profusely, grateful for our diligent and zealous legal representation of him and he’s looking forward to beginning the next chapter of his life, without the tentacles, metaphorically speaking, of the sex offender registry constraining his life as it once had.

Before becoming our client, a San Jose registered sex offender consulted us about pursuing his removal from the sex offender registration. He had told us how difficult it was to find and keep employment, the social alienation created by his notorious and stigmatic legal status, as well, as the aggressive persecution and adversity he had faith from others, who found his registered sex offender status to be abominable and abhorrent. Our San Jose sex offender registration termination attorneys researched his case and discovered that he would be eligible under California’s revised Penal Code 290, otherwise, now known as the tiered registry, because his offense code (Penal Code section 288(a) PC) correlated to Tier 2, the absence of a high or otherwise problematic score per the STATIC-99 risk assessment, as well as the fact that as well as the fact that he had fulfilled the mandatory minimum registration period for his tier level. However, we anticipated that the prosecutor may try to use his criminal background, which contained other criminal convictions (albeit no additional registrable convictions) to argue that keeping on the Registry with significantly enhance community safety. Our San Jose criminal record, clean up attorneys got to work filing expungements of his other convictions. Sure enough, the courts granted our expungement petitions. However, being the consummate perfectionists that they are, our San Jose sex crimes attorneys gathered a litany of documents and built a powerful legal argument, rooted in the critical factors enunciated in Penal Code section 290.5. Our diligent preparation paid off and a Santa Clara county court judge granted our client’s CR-415 petition to terminate duty to register as a sex offender. Upon learning the news, our client cried tears of joy and expressed abundant gratitude to our firm that he can now resume his life without the “Scarlet Letter” effect of the “registered sex offender” label burdening anymore.

An elderly gentleman beset by illness (and his wife) contacted our office who had been convicted a little more than a decade prior of a Tier 3 offense. He said he had contacted other attorneys who said it was impossible for him to get off the registry. One of them told him he should simply resign himself to dying a Registered Sex Offender. However, when we researched his case, we discovered that, so long as we could succeed in reducing his felony sex crime conviction to a misdemeanor, it would be, indeed, possible for him to be removed from the registry. Our San Jose sex offender registration termination attorneys went to work, first with a motion to reduce from Felony to Misdemeanor pursuant to Penal Code section 17 (b). The court granted the motion. Our lawyers then immediately forwarded to the California Department of justice proof that our client's tier 3 felony conviction had been reduced to a misdemeanor. The California Department of Justice then notified our firm that a new tier level designation letter would be made available to our client at his annual registration office. Our client, despite his health and fragility, went to the annual registration office and obtained his new tier 1 letter. Our lawyers then swiftly but thoroughly prepared the petition for our client to be removed from the Sex Offender Registry, but not without first preparing for the possibility of an objection by the prosecutor. Despite the inaccurate information that our client has been given by other lawyers, the Santa Clara County, San Jose courthouse granted our client's petition. When we provided our client proof that he was off the registry, his and his wife's eyes welled up with tears of joy, they vociferously expressed their deep gratitude for all of our hard work. With the painful repercussions of his past conviction now behind him, this wonderful man and his supportive, loving wife can now resume their golden years in peace, tranquility and happiness.

Before becoming our client, a middle-aged man visited our Attorneys and relayed to us how he and his wife have endured years of prejudice, alienation and persecution as a result of his being on the Sex Offender Registry (represented by previous counsel been convicted to a registrable offense). He was desperate to be removed from the sex offender registry. Upon research, we discovered he was eligible to be removed from the sex offender registry pursuant to the Tiered Registry statute (California Penal Code §§ 290, 290.5 et seq.). However, we were concerned that a subsequent conviction for failure to register (specifically, was convicted of having violated California Penal Code section 290(g)(2)) would interfere with his ability to successfully petition off the registry, especially since the prosecutor could have used that to leverage a denial of our client’s petition. In anticipation of a denial, our San Jose Sex Offender Registry Termination Attorneys went to work gathering documentation in support of our position and then assembling a powerful legal argument in the event the prosecutor objected to our client’s petition. Having abided by the strict procedures and notification requirements, our Santa Clara PC 290 registration termination attorneys prevailed and the court GRANTED our client’s petition. Our client expressed his gratitude through tears of joy. He can now chart a new course in life, no longer weighed down by the burden, pain and humiliation of being a registered sex offender.

Before becoming our client, a middle-aged resident of San Jose contacted us regarding his lifetime sex offender registration obligation (the result of a registrable conviction he sustained a few decades ago). Our client bemoaned all of the hatred, animosity and persecution that had been directed his way for decades on account of his being a convicted sex offender. Our San Jose Sex Offender Registration termination lawyers prepared a petition to terminate his registered sex offender registration status but we also intuited that the prosecutor would be objecting to the petition, largely due to the particularly-unfavorable facts of his original case. In anticipation of the government’s opposition, we compiled varying supporting documents and began brainstorming a rebuttal. Sure enough, just as our attorneys had predicted, the prosecutor objected to our client’s petition, citing (among other reasons) the reprehensible nature of the sex acts that led to the underlying conviction. Our Santa Clara sex offender registration termination attorneys drafted and submitted a very lengthy motion and memorandum of points and authorities with a voluminous set of supporting exhibits. It appears that the prosecution ultimately recognized the strength of our supporting motion to grant our client’s CR-415 petition because, despite having contested the petition, we received a communication from the DA’s office (just days before the actual hearing) that they would no longer be opposed. Sure enough, the San Jose Hall of justice GRANTED our client’s petition. He is eternally grateful and is ready to begin the next chapter of his registry-free life.

Our client, a registered sex offender living in San Jose, was previously convicted of having violated California Penal Code 288(c)(1) PC, lewd act against a 14 or 15-year-old child if the defendant was at least 10 years older at the time, and California Penal Code 261.5 PC, statutory rape. He bemoaned the poor legal representation he received by his former lawyer (which led to his conviction and his having to register as a sex offender pursuant to California Penal Code Section 290. He wanted desperately to have both Penal Code section violations dropped from felonies to misdemeanors. He spoke to other attorneys before he retained us and they said it couldn’t be done. Proving them wrong, our Santa Clara County Courthouse sex crimes defense attorneys went to work, immersing themselves in extensive legal research and drafting a powerful and persuasive motion to reduce both felonies to misdemeanors (for both of his Penal Code section offenses, which are “wobblers” pursuant to California Penal Code section 17(b). Despite the naysayers and the odds against our client, the Santa Clara County Courthouse granted the motion. Our client says that hiring us was the best decision he ever made in his life and regrets not having hired us sooner. He’s extremely happy at this significant accomplishment and milestone in his case.

Our client, an adult education professor, was accused of having ejaculated in front of a student. Our sex crimes defense attorneys were swift to take action, highlighting to the city attorney at a Los Angeles city attorney hearing the absence of any forensic evidence to back up the accuser's bogus claim. The prosecutor could have pursued California sex accusation charges that would've resulted in lifetime sex offender registration for our client. Instead, on account of our skilled representation, we achieved what other law firms consider the impossible: a total and complete dismissal of all charges.

Our client, a resident of Los Angeles County, had previously been convicted (through prior counsel) of felony possession of child pornography, a violation of California Penal Code section 311.11(a). He was extremely remorseful for what had happened, had accepted the consequences but wanted to move on so that this conviction would not continue to weigh on him for the rest of his life. At the time he approached us to represent him, our client was on felony probation. After successfully petitioning to have his probation terminated early, we filed for his felony conviction to be reduced to a misdemeanor. Almost immediately after, our California sex offender tier level reduction attorneys contacted the California Department of justice, providing a copy of the granted penal code 17(b) reduction misdemeanor of our client's child pornography conviction and arguing that his tier level designation (which was level 3 at the time he came to us should be reduced to a tier level 1. Not only did the California department of justice reissue his tier assignment (new tier level 1), but it also removed him from the Megan's Law website pursuant to 290.46(b)(2), which list felony 311. 11 (a) as an offense warranting the convicted registered to appear on the Megan's Law website but does NOT do so for a misdemeanor version of the crime.

Our client was speechless at the wonderful news. He is extremely happy with this trifecta of victories we were able to achieve for him and very much looks forward to our representing him again soon when his mandatory minimum registration period has reached the ten-year mark. We will be proud to stand beside our current again, this time to pursue termination of his registration obligation altogether.

Our client, a registered sex offender, contacted us to attempt to position himself better to one day seek and obtain removal from the sex offender registry, as well as, in the meantime, optimize his chances of becoming employable. He wanted us to do this by cleaning up his record, which included a Failure to Register as a Sex Offender, a violation of California Penal Code Section 290(a)(1). Despite the heavy odds against our client on account of the widespread prejudices about 290 registrants, our sex offender defense attorneys prepared, submitted and argued a petition to expunge our client's conviction. The court granted our petition and our client's conviction is now expunged.

Our client, a registered sex offender, contacted us to attempt to position himself better to one day seek and obtain removal from the sex offender registry, as well as, in the meantime, optimize his chances of becoming employable. He wanted us to do this for him by cleaning his record, which included methamphetamine possession, a violation of California Health and Safety Code Section 11377(a). Despite the heavy odds against our client on account of the widespread prejudices about 290 registrants, our sex offender defense attorneys prepared, submitted and argued a petition to expunge our client's possession of methamphetamine conviction. The court granted our petition and our client's conviction is now expunged.

Our client, a registered sex offender under California Penal Code 290, was being subjected to public disclosure of his private information. His personal profile was posted on privately-owned website that published his home address, as well as other sensitive contact information. Our sex crimes defense attorneys sprung into action argued that this presented a potential danger to his personal safety, among other persuasive legal arguments. The website complied with our request and took down his profile.

Approximately twenty-two (22) years ago, our client (represented by a different attorney at the time) had been convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14, a violation of California Penal Code Section 288(a). After his conviction, he suffered various indignities and legal constraints, as well as the embarrassment and humiliation of being branded a “sex offender.” Before he came to us, he had hired yet a different attorney to help remove him from the sex offender registry, all to no avail. By the time our client came to us, he was generally skeptical of attorneys, given the poor results he had previously gotten. We accepted his case. We prepared a several-hundred-pages-long trial brief-with-exhibits in anticipation that the prosecutor would try to object to his petition to be removed from the sex offender registry under the Tiered Registry Law, i.e., revised PC 290.5 (previously “Senate Bill 384”). We submitted the paperwork in compliance with the strictures of the new law and instructions. The judge GRANTED our petition to remove our client from the Sex Offender Registry. Our client was moved to tears and his faith in the legal process was restored. He profusely expressed his gratitude. We are now helping him reintegrate back into society so that his online privacy is fully restored, among other things. Our client is now a free man.

Our Amador County sex crimes defense attorneys undertook representation of a convicted California sex offender who is seeking to clean his record in anticipation of the New Tiered Registry Law slated to take effect in 2021. Due to the legal and moral stigma associated with our client’s sex offender status, the odds were stacked against him from the get-go. Despite this, our San Joaquin County criminal defense attorneys prepared a powerful petition, backed up by a formidable legal presence in court. As a consequence of our advocacy, the San Joaquin County Superior Court approved a petition to dismiss — in furtherance of justice per Penal Code section 1203.4(a)— multiple past convictions that include the following: driving with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.08% or higher, a violation of California vehicle code section 23152(b) VC; driving with a suspended or revoked license, a violation of California Vehicle Code Section 14601.1(a) VC; failure to appear in court when required to do so, a violation of California Penal Code section 1320 PC; failure to appear in court when required to do so in a traffic violation, a violation of California Vehicle Code section 40508. Our client is elated that he will likely stand a much better chance of successfully petitioning to come off the sex offender registry given that this victory softened the blow of various past convictions on his record.

Our client, a man in his 60s, a father and husband with a good reputation who is also a Vietnam war veteran, was accused (and we believe falsely) of having molested a 12-year-old girl. Our Stockton sex crimes defense attorneys were able to uncover that the accusing party was probably the child’s mother, who had a history of making false allegations and who likely coached the minor out of resentment against our client for a variety of reasons. Our sex crimes defense lawyers in Stockton filed a variety of motions, brought to the government’s attention the accusing party’s mother’s well-documented history of using her daughter as a (metaphorical) “cudgel” to make false accusations, uncovered prosecutorial misconduct, and successfully challenged the factual narrative against our client. Because Penal Code section 290 makes lifetime sex offender registration mandatory for a conviction involving lewd and lascivious acts (Penal Code section 288(a)), our Attorneys successfully negotiated a reduction to a non-sexual simple battery, which does NOT trigger mandatory lifetime sex offender registration. We convinced the prosecutor to drop the lewd and lascivious acts charge altogether. We were also able to get the maximum amount of custody credits for our client, so much so that he was released nearly a year before his scheduled release date. Our client was pleasantly surprised at how much earlier he would be released than initially thought. He is now back home with his family, never having to register as a sex offender a day in his life.

Our client was previously convicted in 1996 of what is now classified as a Tier 2 registrable offense. Despite his very skilled labor background, our client was unable to secure the sort of employment he would’ve been able to get had he not been convicted of this crime. Additionally, he had other (non-sex crime) convictions. Due to our Attorneys’ encyclopedic knowledge of California Penal Code section 290, the California sex offender registry act, we were able to identify potential obstacles in the way of our client petitioning to be removed from the sex offender registry. California Penal Code section 290.5(a)(3) states that the court can consider all criminal convictions, not just the registrable offense. In anticipation of the strong likelihood our client’s petition would be met with an objection by the prosecution, our Stockton sex offender registration attorneys went to work, successfully expunging our client’s various other convictions (which included battery, theft, and drug possession). Having cleaned up our client’s record to the extent possible, our San Joaquin County sex crimes attorneys submitted our client’s CR–415 petition to terminate Sex Offender registration, along with accompanying forms and documents. Having proven our client’s eligibility under Senate Bill 384 (now revised Penal Code §290), the San Joaquin County, Stockton Courthouse granted our client’s petition. Our client cried tears of joy upon experiencing this life-changing moment. Our client expressed eternal gratitude to us for giving him back his freedom, dignity and humanity. With the burdensome repercussions of his conviction now behind him, our client is now ready to begin the next chapter of his life.

Our client, a registered sex offender, contacted our office to challenge his probation terms, which he thought were too oppressive. He was initially skeptical that the court would terminate his probation outright.

Our client, a very sweet and soft-spoken woman (wife and mother), was unfairly and tragically convicted of a sex offender-registrable crime several decades ago. When she came to us to enlist our help, she cried while relaying the unfortunate events that led up to her conviction. She also shared with us her horrifying and traumatic experiences about how she had been hounded, harassed, persecuted, denied housing, denied employment, and how she has been ostracized and alienated by former friends and family. Our San Jose sex offender registration termination attorneys went to work assembling the necessary documentation and following the applicable protocol to petition for removal from the sex offender registry. Despite the odds against our client given the controversial nature of her conviction and the stigma surrounding sex offenders, the Santa Clara County Courthouse GRANTED our petition for removal from the registry. When we gave our client the news, she cried tears of joy and expressed great gratitude for our work on her behalf. She can now begin the new chapter of her life, without the burden of Megan’s Law and lifetime registration.

Our client, a registered sex offender, hired us because he was enduring numerous indignities and deprivations due to his very prominent status online as a sex offender. He indicated to us various instances where he received threats on account of his PC290 registrant status. Our San Jose sex offender registration removal attorneys went to work, conducting legal research to determine his eligibility under the Tiered Registry Law. After we were able to verify his eligibility, we prepared and submitted all of the petition paperwork and accompanying documentation. Sure enough, we were successful and the Santa Clara County Court granted our client’s petition. He was moved to tears at the news and is eternally grateful for our help.

Our client was accused of having damage to another vehicle and having fled the scene of the accident. Our client — an otherwise completely-law abiding person who has been gainfully employed, has a family and had lots to lose — would have been devastated by a hit-and-run conviction, which carries jail time, probation and fines. Our Pomona Hit & Run criminal defense attorneys hit the ground running, i.e., preparing a defense very early on in the case, ready to advance it all the way through to successful completion, meaning, total dismissal. We succeeded. As a result of our early and aggressive intervention in the case, the Pomona district attorney office dismissed the case entirely. Our client went home. No jail. No fines. No probation. Back to life as normal.

Our client, a gentleman with a previous criminal conviction, was accused of "hit and run", a violation of California Vehicle Code Section 20002(a). A new conviction would have most certainly resulted in lengthy imprisonment on account of his rap sheet. Accordingly, our San Jose courthouse criminal defense attorneys fought from the very start to have the hit and run accusation thrown out. Our office was able to get a civil compromise where our client paid a small amount of restitution for the damage to the bus (no child or adult passengers were on the bus) at the time of the collision. Our client received an infraction and avoided a misdemeanor conviction. He also avoided any jailtime.

Our client was accused of having driven with .15 blood alcohol concentration (BAC), as well as having hit a parked vehicle and then fleeing the scene of the accident. Therefore, the prosecutor filed a criminal complaint alleging three criminal counts (driving while under the influence of alcohol, driving with a blood alcohol concentration of .08 or higher and hit and run, violations of California vehicle code section 23152(a), 23152(b) and 20002(a), respectively). The court imposed six-figure bail...UNTIL our attorneys got involved. Our DUI and hit-and-run criminal charges defense attorneys sprung into action immediately, first with convincing the judge to reduce bail significantly. The judge granted the bail reduction, our client made bail and was released from custody. Then, we mobilized to have the charges dismissed. Facing a potential one year in the county jail, our client was in jeopardy of being incarcerated and losing his job. We convinced the prosecutor to drop any jail time at all. Additionally, the prosecutor threw out the hit and run allegation as well as driving under the influence of alcohol. Not a single day of jail time was imposed.

Our client was charged with a felony second offense DUI with hit and run out of the Pomona courthouse. On account of the very service charges levied against our client, Pomona deputy district attorney did not waver in seeking half-decade California state penitentiary in prison commitment against our client…until now. Pomona courthouse felony DUI defense attorneys have been uncovering severe weakness is in the governments case against our client, who stands to lose not only his freedom (through possible imprisonment in one of California’s very violent high security state penitentiaries) but also a lucrative career. We have made great strides in greatly reducing that possibility and look forward to continue seeking and obtaining the best possible available outcome for our client with minimal to no jail time.

Our client, a DACA recipient, was accused by his former employer (a well-known shipping company) of stealing customer merchandise. When he came to us, he was very anxious about the possibility of deportation if he were to be convicted of theft, as well as his potential inability to secure future employment ever again (given that employers universally are repulsed by the idea of hiring dishonest staff or perceived to be dishonest due to a theft conviction). Understanding the sensitivity of his immigration situation, our El Monte Courthouse Petty Theft Defense Attorneys prepared and implemented a masterful lethal strategy that would bring a pretrial resolution to his case while at the same time ensuring that nothing would go on his record. Due to their brilliant negotiation skills, our El Monte theft charges attorneys worked out an informal diversion, the result of which will be a complete dismissal upon our client completing diversionary terms, i..e., some community service and obey all laws. No restitution necessary.

Our clients, a quiet couple in Southern California, were horrified to learn that there was footage of the inside of their home published on YouTube. The video consisted of a tour of their home, exhaustively depicting every room in the house, as well as all entrances and exits. This was a particularly strong source of consternation for our clients due to a rash of armed burglaries and violent home invasions, which have been on the rise in California and all throughout the United States. Our clients were fearful that potential burglars or home invaders would use the footage as a schematic or blueprint to help secure access into the home move through the property to burgle and possibly inflict harm to occupants of their home. Our California Internet Privacy Lawyers went to work, finding the most powerful persuasive and mandatory case law possible, drafting cease and desist legal correspondence citing the relevant legal authority and sending it to the owners of the YouTube channel who were publishing the offending video. The owners of the channel swiftly removed the video. Our clients feel extremely relieved and can sleep easy that their privacy is secured.

Our client was accused of failure to register as a sex offender while on a college campus in violation of California Penal Code Section 290(b). The court issued notices regarding the necessity of his appearance in court, each time being told he needed to return until ultimately (he feared) that a warrant was issued for his arrest (despite repeated attendance). Our failure to register defense attorneys sprung into action, appearing each time, and then finally at his arraignment that took place in December 2017. We ensured that our client would not be remanded into custody. He walked out of the courthouse free and clear from any bench warrant. Our failure to register defense attorneys will be defending his case and we have vowed to secure a successful resolution. What a great start to the defense of his case: remand into custody AVOIDED.

A rare night on the town for a young working Mom could have led up to a year in jail, after she was suspected of driving while under the influence, driving with a blood alcohol level of 0.08%, and in possession of cocaine. But due to the diligent advocacy of Coimbra Law, APC, our attorneys reached an amicable agreement with the Pasadena City Prosecutor: Instead of jail, our client is serving a 3-year-term on probation for only a “wet reckless.” She was originally charged with violating Vehicle Code section 23152(a), Vehicle Code section 23152(b), and Health & Safety Code section 11350(a). A wet reckless is a reduced charge; it is for driving recklessly with alcohol involved. The drug charge against our client was dismissed. Our client was also sentenced to pay a $500 fine, plus assessment fees, and to attend an alcohol diversion program, among other conditions. The woman had been celebrating a friend’s birthday and decided to stay out later because she hardly ever had the time to socialize, given the demands of her home and work life. When she was stopped by Pasadena police, she had been up for 19 hours. Signs of sleep deprivation and fatigue easily mirror the symptoms of intoxication, our attorneys argued. She was also unaware that what was tossed into her purse was a controlled substance.

Our client was previously convicted of your California Penal Code section 602 (m), commonly known as trespassing. In California, trespass is defined as entering or remaining on another person's property without the right or permission to do so.
Our client didn't like that his criminal history was interfering with his right to keep or secure employment and believed it was holding him back in life. Our Joshua Tree courthouse expungement attorneys went to work to establish that our client had mended his ways and had become a law-abiding citizen. The court granted our petition, and our client is very happy and grateful.

Our client, an elderly gentleman who had been saddled for decades with sex offender registration and Megan’s law website exposure (to a great degree due to prior ineffective counsel), was enthused about meeting with our attorneys due to our peerless reputation for processing successful registry removal petitions. We prepare powerful legal arguments and gathered supporting documents in anticipation of a potential objection from the prosecutor. Hanford sex offender registration termination attorneys prevailed upon the court to grant our client’s petition. He is now ready to begin the next chapter of his life without the proverbial “anvil” of lifetime sex offender registration on his back.

Our client was previously convicted for “oral copulation with a person under 18 years old“, violation of California Penal Code section 288a(b)(1). To try and secure a better position in challenging his registration obligation, our client retained our sex offender registration termination attorneys to file and prosecute a motion to reduce his felony conviction to a misdemeanor. After we filed our motion to reduce from felony to misdemeanor under Penal Code section 17(b), the prosecutor filed its opposition, asserting that our client's conviction was not a wobbler and therefore not able to be reduced to a misdemeanor. Our legal research team went to work and proved to the court that, since penal code section 288a(b)(1) allows for sentencing in the county jail instead of state prison, the offense is indeed a wobbler. The court agreed with our moving papers (and our masterful legal oratory in court) and granted our petition. Now, pursuant to the Tiered Registry Act due to take effect in the courts on July 1, 2021, our client may successfully argue that he is a Tier 1 registrant, allowing him to come off the registry years, maybe even decades before he otherwise would have been able to do so.

Our client had been convicted of a registrable sex crime in 2008, specifically contacting a minor for sexual purposes, a violation of California Penal Code section 288.3(b), a felony. When he came to us, his life was in tatters: he was unable to secure fulfilling employment, he had been the recipient of threats and harassment on account of his PC290 status, and whatever friends and family he had discontinued contact with him altogether. Our sex offender registration termination attorneys went to work on his case, first securing an expungement as his conviction under California Penal Code section 1203.4. We then filed a petition for certificate of rehabilitation under California Penal Code section 4852.01, amassing an arsenal of evidence establishing our clients efforts, achievements and general rehabilitation. We presented a powerful and compelling legal argument with the petition. Despite the heavy odds against our client, we were victorious. The court granted our clients certificate of rehabilitation petition, having the effect of observing our client from any further sex offender registration. Our client has fully regained his life and is extremely grateful and happy for our help.

A mild-mannered middle-aged man who had previously been convicted of having violated Penal Code section 311.11 (a), possession of obscene materials involving minors, came to our office so we could help mitigate his criminal record as much as possible. Our reduction-from-felony-to-misdemeanor attorneys prepared a masterful motion and argued that our client’s 311.11(a) PC felony conviction should be reduced to a misdemeanor pursuant to Penal Code section 17(b). Despite the odds against our client, given the reprehensible nature of the crime, the court granted our motion. We will be contacting the California Department of Justice so that his tier level designation from lifetime Tier 3 can be reduced to Tier 1 so that our client can petition to be removed from the sex offender registry just a few short years from now rather than never being able to do so had his conviction remained a felony. Our client is speechless with joy and gratitude for our zealous and diligent representation.

Our client, a man with an extensive criminal background, was charged with felony evasion after fleeing from a traffic stop. At the time, he was not only on probation, but he also had a warrant. He was facing a sentence of 3 years in state prison, in addition to an enhanced sentence for the probation violation. Our attorneys were able to secure a deal where the client will only serve 9 months in county jail and will later be placed in a drug rehabilitation program. The court agreed to waive additional punishment for the probation violation and the warrant at issue.

Client was previously convicted of having violated Penal Code sections 288(a) and 311.11, also known, respectively, as lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor and possession of obscene materials. The complaining witness was client's minor stepchild. Our office submitted a powerful legal argument supported by a significant amount of compelling documentation, including a favorable psychiatric evaluation of our client. The Department of Justice granted our petition and our client's online Megan's Law profile has since been removed.

Our Los Angeles Superior Court Sex Offender Defense Attorneys prepared a Motion to Terminate Probation Early for our Registered Sex Offender Client. Given his registered status and the underlying nature of the offense, the odds against our client were high, particularly since he had previously been represented by a different lawyer whose representation resulted in the conviction and lifetime sex offender registration . Despite the odds, our Sex Crimes Defense Attorneys impressed upon the court that our client had met and kept his promises and obligation to the court and demonstrated positive and rehabilitative conduct on his behalf. In addition to that, we have been able to have his sex offender information and profile removed from numerous privately-owned websites, helping him to reestablish his anonymity and privacy. Our client is immensely happy.

Our client, who is convicted many years ago of an offense it requires him to register as a sex offender pursuant to Penal Code section 290, came to us due to the extremely burdensome conditions of his probation. We undertook representation, Crafting a powerful and compelling legal argument (with supporting exhibits) arguing that he should not only be taken off probation early, but that his felony conviction under Penal Code section 311.11 (A) should be reduced to a misdemeanor. Both motions were granted. He will now qualify, if he decides to do so, to be able to petition to be removed from the lifetime sex offender registry after the new tiered registry law (formerly known as Senate Bill 384) takes effect. Had we not helped him, he would have remained in the lifetime tier without any hope of being able to get off the registry. Fortunately, our intervention will give him the pathway necessary to pursue removal from the registry should he decide to pursue relief under the new law. In the meantime, he no longer has to live under the onerous requirements of felony probation.

Our client, who was convicted through prior counsel of a PC 290-registrable offense, possession of obscene images involving minor (311.11(a) PC) came to our office so that we can represent him before the court to terminate his probation early. This can be especially challenging given the extremely-controversial nature of the underlying conviction. We referred him to a mental health expert, who evaluated him and was able to determine that our client does not sustain any discernible risk of reoffending. We argued vehemently for his probation to be terminated early. The court granted the motion despite the odds. (We are also in the process of having him removed from various websites that are violating his privacy by publishing his conviction information.)

Our client, a registered sex offender for whom we will very likely be filing a petition for removal from the sex offender registry pursuant to the Tiered Registry Law that took effect July 1, 2021, retained our services to help clean up his background as much as possible. We reviewed his record and he has (or had) quite the checkered past. Despite this, our expungement attorneys went to work on expunging a 1980 DUI conviction and resisting arrest conviction, and a 1987 drug transportation /selling narcotic/controlled substance conviction. We overcame the heavy odds against our client on the basis of his lengthy rap sheet and sex offender status; the court granted the expungement petitions we filed and argued on our client’s behalf. We believe this will place our client in a much stronger position in the event the prosecutor tries to oppose his petition to terminate his sex offender registration obligation if he were to go forward with that. Our client is immensely happy and grateful.

Our client, a young, employed man, was facing a harrowing drug conviction that would’ve haunted him for the rest of his life. Our West Covina courthouse drug possession attorneys swept into action. We worked with the prosecutor to drop the criminal charge all together and permit for drug treatment and rehabilitation. The case is set for dismissal upon successful completion of the drug diversion classes.

Our client, a criminal defense lawyer with a very distinguished reputation, was the victim of a defamatory review by a person purporting to be a client whose Yelp profile failed to match the name of any of our client’s customers. Our online reputation defense attorneys immediately reported the review and specified which Yelp rule the defamatory review ran afoul of and asserted specific reasons as to why the review was violative. No more than a couple of hours later, the review disappeared, helping maintain our client’s reputation intact.

Our client, a young entrepreneur in the business sector, was visited by a prospective customer to discuss the possibility of working together. The meeting seemed to go in a copacetic manner, until, much to our client’s surprise, he was later shocked to see a negative review on Yelp. The prospective customer heaped all sorts of opprobrium and scathing criticism against our client, despite the fact that our client was extremely gracious to this prospect, explained service options and does not recall at all having been rude or unprofessional.

Our defamatory online removal attorneys quickly went to work, demonstrating the falsity of the review and the degree to which it violated Yelp rules. Yelp very graciously removed the libelous review. We are happy to have helped maintain our client’s upstanding online reputation.

Our client came to us dismayed that he was accused of vandalism (a violation of California Penal Code 594), which could've been prosecuted as a felony because of potential high monetary amount of the alleged property damage. He was intoxicated at the time the alleged vandalism occurred, which included extensive damage to a front window of his neighbors home. Our West Covina vandalism defense attorneys sprang into action, spearheading a legal defense effort months in advance of his court date. Exclusively as a result of our early and aggressive criminal defense intervention, the prosecutor declined to prosecute the case. Case dismissed even before the arraignment.

Our client, a gainfully-employed man in his 30’s, went out to dinner with his girlfriend one night in downtown Azusa. She became intoxicated. The couple had a heated argument. On their way home, our client’s girlfriend lost control of her senses, opened the passenger door of our client’s truck and fell down on the pavement. An eyewitness claimed that she saw our client hit his girlfriend. The Azusa Police Department arrived on the scene and arrested our client, who was ultimately charged for felony domestic battery under California Penal Code section 273.5(a). Our client feared that he would go to jail for a significant period of time (the law provides for up to four (4) years in California state prison for a felony domestic battery conviction). In addition to fearing the horrors of incarceration, our client would likely have lost his job if convicted. Our Pomona courthouse domestic battery charges defense attorneys went to work on his case. We discovered significant weaknesses in the government’s case, including a faulty eyewitness and some “existential“ problems with causation of injuries, i.e., our client was accused of having ripped out of piece of the victim’s hair during their argument but we discovered that her hair had already been falling out due to a condition known as “postpartum telogen effluvium.”

At the preliminary hearing, our domestic violence defense attorney masterfully cross-examined the police officer and witness in the case, revealing important discrepancies that would ultimately lead to leveraging our findings for a no-jail resolution at pretrial as well as the dismissal of multiple felony counts. Our client is now safely back home and is able to work, free from the previously-very real possibility of imprisonment. He is very, very happy.

Our client, a nurse who received a DUI, was facing charges for both DUI and refusal to submit for BAC testing. Our attorneys worked arduously even before the arraignment by submitting mitigation materials to the DA prior to filing. Our attorneys were able to secure a deal which pleased the client, including having the refusal charge stricken. The client received credits toward her overall sentence, a reduced fine, and the minimum program required for a DUI conviction. In addition, the client was able to plead no contest, as opposed to guilty, for the reduced sentence.

A mid-career Vocational Nurse practitioner faced the possibility of losing her state license after drugs were found in her car during a traffic stop, but our attorneys at Coimbra Law Firm, APC successfully defended our client’s license—and livelihood.

At a hearing today before the Office of Administrative Hearings, our attorney argued against the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians’ position to revoke or suspended our client’s Vocational Nurse License due to “unprofessional conduct.” The Board accused our client of unlawfully possessing and using a controlled substance, following her arrest nearly three years ago. Our attorney effectively argued that it was unnecessary to take away our client’s license, highlighting the positive character traits, goals, and amenability toward rehabilitation of our client, who had successfully completed a probation term earlier to dismiss the criminal charge against her. A similar probation term is expected in this case, as our client walked out of the hearing with the prospects of her license and career intact.

Our client, a former registered sex offender for whom we secured removal from the sex offender registry, continues to appear on this website, from which it is believed to be notoriously difficult to have registrants' profiles removed. Even after we removed him from the sex offender registry, this website persisted in publishing our client's profile. Our Attorneys contacted the website with proof that the Santa Clara county courthouse granted our client's petition for removal from the sex offender registry. Shortly thereafter, OffenderRadar complied and removed our client's profile.

Our client, who is a registered sex offender at the time he contacted us, was desperate to regain his privacy and anonymity, two precious personal luxuries that were lost upon his conviction for a registrable sex crime. We took up his case and succeeded in procuring a certificate of rehabilitation, which resulted in a termination of his lifetime sex with her obligation. Despite this, OffenderRadar, a privately-owned operation, continue publicizing his former sex offender profile some time after his removal from the PC290 Registry. Our Sex Offender Website Removal Attorneys sent a cease and desist correspondence to OffenderRadar, which quickly complied with our demand. This is one of many websites from which we succeeded in removing the information of our client, who is immensely happy not only with the freedom we were able to restore for him but also for the privacy and anonymity for which he had long yearned.

A gentleman came to our office, greatly distressed that his information appeared on Zabasearch, a website that publishes highly sensitive private contact information and other delicate personal data. Zabasearch is also notorious for being difficult, if not impossible, to persuade to remove people’s personal information. The reason for his distress largely emanated from the fact that his job involves security and, given the type of persons to which he is exposed as part of his security job. Our West Covina website information removal attorneys approached Zabasearch with a very sensible request to remove our client’s information. They initially refused and largely “passed the buck“, saying that they were not responsible for the posting of that information but rather, a third-party had posted it and there was nothing they could do. We did not give up. We contacted them a second time but on a pre-litigation basis, effectively preparing the materials it would take to file suit in federal court and communicating our intent to imminently proceed with a lawsuit against them. Only a few days after, Zabasearch removed the entirety of our client's information. He now feels much safer than he did when Zabasearch published incredibly sensitive details about his life. He is very happy with our service.

Our client, and an avid motorcyclist, was charged for having driven his bike over 100 mph. The officer had the discretion to proceed with a charge in court of reckless driving or exhibition of speed, either one of which is a misdemeanor offense. As a result of our early intervention in the case, not only were we able to help him avoid any such misdemeanor charge, we also succeeded in persuading the court to allow our client to keep his license (despite the vehicle code which says court has discretion to suspended for 30 days).

Our client, a middle-aged gentleman beset by years of having to register as a sex offender and all of the indignities that have come with, came to our office seeking help in terminating his sex offender registration. Not only did we draft the petition and follow the protocol laid out under revised Penal Code section 290.5, but our Sacramento sex offender registration termination attorneys prepared for the likelihood that the prosecutor would lob an objection pursuant to Penal Code section 290.5 (a)(2). After our meticulous work, and much back-and-forth oral argument in court, a Pasadena courthouse judge granted our petition and issued a signed and sealed CR–418 court order on petition to terminate sex offender registration. Our client is now free from the shackles of lifetime sex offender registration and is ready to begin the next chapter of his life… without having to register as a sex offender anymore.

Our client, a very talented young teacher with impressive credentials in her field, was accused of assault, a violation of Penal Code 240. She was approached by a man who had accused her of having cut her off on the road. He menacingly approached her car window and threatened her to her face. Afraid for her safety and her life, she pepper-sprayed him in self-defense. Being the bully that he is, he claimed he was the victim of an assault even though our client was clearly acting in self-defense, which is an affirmative defense that can result in acquittal at trial. Our West Covina assault charges defense attorneys were able to convince the prosecutor that the case should be dropped for the above reasons. Sure enough, even before the arraignment took place, prosecutor issued a DA reject and refused to pursue prosecution against our client.

Our client, who had sustained multiple prior convictions, was anxious to obtain a certificate of rehabilitation to have certain legal rights restored. Our postconviction criminal defense attorneys put together a compelling legal argument and various supporting exhibits to convince the court to grant our client's petition. We appeared in department 100 of the Los Angeles Superior Court, made the oral argument on behalf of our client in support of the petition. The judge granted our client's certificate of rehabilitation.

Our client wanted to change her son’s name to pay homage to his deceased grandfather. Our attorneys undertook the rigorous procedures associated with petitioning to change name, including the newspaper publication requirements. The Pomona courthouse, known for its stringent name change requirements and frequent denials of petitions to change name, granted our client’s request.

Our client was previously convicted, through different former counsel, of a lifetime sex offender registrable conviction under Penal Code section 290. The discrepancy between his birth name and legal name was causing him not to be able to secure employment due to identity uncertainty. We were able to convince the court that our client was not trying to hide his identity but, actually, simply to go by his birth name. Despite the court having previously denied our client’s request when he made it in pro per and without our help, our firm persuaded the court to APPROVE the petition for name change.

Before he became our client, a PC 290 Registrant from Plumas County visited our office to consult with our Attorneys. He told us of the excruciating hardships, lost job opportunities, persecution, harassment and death threats he had faced since his 1988 sex offender registrable conviction. His eyes welled up with tears as he told us how he had been, in effect, chased out of the community in which he had lived after the publication of his sex offender profile in 1996 (when the California DOJ Megan’s Law community notification website went up). Our Sex Offender Registration Termination Attorneys went to work. Well before we submitted his Sex Offender Registration Termination Petition, our expungement attorneys submitted various expungement petitions in multiple counties throughout the state of California (where our client had incurred various convictions over the years). We then went to work amassing documentation to help satisfy the seven (7) critical factors laid out Penal Code section 290.5 (a)(3) in the event the prosecutor objected to our client’s petition. Only after such a thorough cleansing of our client’s record, and the accumulation of a plethora supporting exhibits (in anticipation of an objection by the DA) did we file the CR-415 Petition to Terminate Sex Offender Registration. Sure enough, just as we had predicted, the Plumas County District Attorney objected to our client’s petition and proceeded to file and serve us with a 63-page objection (motion and exhibits) articulation the reasons: broadly, the egregious facts of the underlying case and our client’s non-registrable criminal convictions he had picked up in addition to his registrable offense. Our community safety hearing trial attorneys issued a rebuttal motion that was a whopping one-hundred-and-twenty-four (124) pages (motion and supporting exhibits) in length. The expungements we had gotten our client suddenly became extremely handy in helping to counteract the negative impact of our client’s convictions. We also argued that despite the reprehensible nature of the acts of which our client had been convicted, it was important to acknowledge that they did NOT involve violence, coercion, “stranger danger,” or repeat sexual criminal activity. During the community safety hearing, the Judge expressed her concern that our client had not taken a sex offender counseling program. Quick on his feet, our Plumas County criminal trial attorney addressed the court’s concern: our client’s conviction had taken place about six (6) years before the passage of amended California Penal Code Section 1203.067(b) that required a defendant who had been granted probation "to be placed in an appropriate treatment program designed to deal with child molestation or sexual offenders, if an appropriate program is available in the county." (Former 1203.067(b), added by Stats. 1994, ch. 918, 1.). Moreover, our client’s conviction took place approximately 22 years before the September 9, 2010 amendment to section 1203.067 as part of the Chelsea King Child Predator Prevention Act of 2010 (Stats. 2010, ch. 219, 1) that required persons placed on formal supervised probation on or after July 1, 2012, to “successfully complete a sex offender management program.” Therefore, he was not required, as part of his sentence, to attend a sex offender counseling program. Having read and considered the DA’s motion and our motion opposing the DA’s motion, and after having weighed all of the above-mentioned critical factors, the Honorable Judge GRANTED our client’s petition to terminate sex offender registration. Our client and his wife were moved to tears and effusively expressed their unmitigated gratitude to our Attorney. They are ready to begin the next chapter of their life, without the chains of lifetime sex offender registration weighing down on our client.

Our client, a busy professional with high public visibility who deals with dangerous individuals as part of her career, sought to file a confidential petition for name change. Given the extraordinarily high bar or threshold for a court to seal a public record, our California Superior Court confidential name change and motion to seal public record attorneys prepared a masterpiece of a motion and an abundance of evidence that our client had recently been exposed to perilous situations from disgruntled members of the public. Our Pomona motion to seal public record lawyers argued that a public name change record would expose our client to irreparable harm, quite possibly to the life and well-being of our client if the information got into the wrong hands. Persuaded by our arguments, the court very judiciously granted the motion. Our client is extraordinarily happy that her safety will be protected.

Our client was required to perform 10 days of community labor by a certain court date pursuant to the terms of a case resolution. On account of a physical injury, our client was unable to complete those 10 days. Our Pomona courthouse criminal defense attorneys provided the court with proof of the physical injury and convinced judge to provide extension. Pomona courthouse is notoriously a very tough environment for criminal defendants and is not known for its leniency. Despite this, the court granted our client this extension. Pomona courthouse also frequently generates a bench warrants, including but not limited for failure to provide timely proof of community labor. Despite this very tough environment, our bench warrant defense attorneys therefore ALSO avoided a bench warrant from issuing against our client.

Our client, who we were already representing to begin pursuing removal from the lifetime sex offender, was the subject of a criminal allegation from his stepdaughter. The prosecutor filed a felony complaint against our client for violations of California Penal Code section 288(a), commonly known as lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age, as well as a sentencing enhancement due to his prior conviction for the same offense. To help protect our client against the possibility of lingering in pretrial custody, while facing such a serious accusation, our sex crimes bail reduction attorneys prepared a voluminous motion to reduce bail or release “O.R” (“own recognizance). Our masterful, pretrial motion resulted in a whopping 163% REDUCTION of his bail, such that our client went home after posting a comparatively meager amount for bond. Our Pomona sex crimes Attorneys collected the discovery, and went to work to identify any and all weaknesses, frailties and debilities in the prosecution’s case. They also identified anything that could be identified as strengths in the prosecutor’s case, and began building powerful counterarguments, attacking the merit of the allegations as well as their admissibility under the California Evidence Code. Our Pomona lewd and lascivious acts with a minor defense attorneys drafted a qualitatively- and quantitatively-voluminous mitigation packet arguing for dismissal of the charges. Our persistent work paid off: the district attorney dropped all charges. Our client is elated and eternally grateful to our Pomona, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor charges defense attorneys that he does not have to spend potentially years or decades rotting away in a state prison. The court exonerated his bond and our client is no longer burdened with an ominous felony case against him.

Our client was charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol (in violation of California Vehicle Code 23152(a)) and driving with a blood alcohol concentration level over the legal limit (in violation of California Vehicle Code 23152(b)). In this case, our client was accused of having driven virtually three times the legal limit BAC (.23/.24). Our Pomona courthouse DUI lawyers sprung into action, submitting a detailed and comprehensive written legal argument and engaging in intensive negotiations with the prosecutor. The charge of violating California Vehicle Code 23152(a) was dismissed and matter was resolved without any jail time despite very high blood alcohol concentration

Our West Covina drug defense attorneys represented a young man of college age after he was arrested and cited for possession of methamphetamine, a violation of California Health and Safety Code section 11377. Due to our early intervention, our West Covina meth possession defense lawyers were able to have the matter charged as a misdemeanor rather than a felony prior to filing. But we didn't stop there. We negotiated a settlement for drug diversion under PC 1000. Our client took a 20 day drug diversion course, maintained an arrest-free record. Judge dismissed of the matter. Not only was our young client able to avoid any jail time, but he will have no criminal record of this case.

Our client, a registered sex offender Who is on federal probation, was confronted by his probation officer on bogus allegations that could have led to severe repercussions in criminal court. Our West Covina probation violation defense attorneys accompanied him during his meeting with his probation officer. On account of our effective representation skills, we prevented him from going into custody or otherwise suffering any adverse criminal consequences.

Client had been represented by public defender and was given onerous probation terms, including a one-year inpatient drug rehabilitation program. Client complained about being exploited by the program, made to work and being under tight control. He AWOL'ed and found out that he had a warrant for his arrest for leaving the program. Our probation violation defense attorneys swept in and not only had the warrant recalled and quashed (i.e., terminated); our firm also got him re-enrolled into an outpatient program with extremely reasonable terms so that he could serve out his drug rehabilitation without incident. Probation violation and potentially long prison sentence totally avoided.

Our client was charged with having used excessive force while disciplining his child. Our West Covina child endangerment charges defense attorneys went to work, arguing that our client was actually acting within the confines of his parental right to discipline and that he did not act unreasonably. A conviction of this magnitude would've carried up to one year in the county jail. Instead, the prosecutor dismissed the child endangerment charge, our client entered a plea to a lesser offense and no jail time was imposed.

A family approached our office after being stunned at the results we were able to get for other people who have been accused of heinous crimes. They told us the sad tale of a young man in their family who had been falsely accused of a rape (California Penal Code 261) by a young woman. Our West Covina rape charges defense attorneys sprung into action, visiting our client in custody immediately and intervening early on in the process. As a result of our swift and immediate action, our client was released and no charges will be pursued. Moreover, as a result of our early intervention, our client will never have to register as a sex offender.

Our El Monte sex offender registration termination attorneys succeeded in petitioning our client for removal from the lifetimes sex offender registry. Pursuant to penal code section 290.5(a)(5), the court was supposed to notify the California Department of Justice of his removal from the registry so the DOJ take the necessary follow-up action, i.e., removal from the Megan’s law website, updating of DOJ records, etc. Because the court did not notify the CalDOJ, our client’s former annual registration office thought he was still on the registry and reported him as being in violation of Penal Code section 290’s annual registration requirement. Because his underlying conviction was a felony, a conviction and sentence for failure to register would have been catastrophic, carrying up to three years in a California state prison.

Without skipping a beat, our El Monte failure to register allegations dismissal attorneys swept into immediate preventive corrective action.

Our attorneys swiftly but thoroughly corresponded with the applicable law enforcement agency and CalDOJ with substantial proof that our client was removed from the registry. Had our El Monte sex offender registration termination attorneys not caught the court’s mistake, it is very likely our client could have been wrongfully arrested and charged with failure to register. Instead, our client has been spared what would have otherwise been a terrible ordeal and continues to enjoy his new sex offender registration-free life.

Our client, an adolescent male who aspired to follow in his father's footsteps as a commercial driver, was cited with reckless driving after doing "donuts" in a parking lot in the presence of others. Our Van Nuys Juvenile Court defense attorneys jumped into action, disputing the charge, clearing out a bench warrant that had arisen in the case and ultimately convincing the court to throw out the case. Our client was spared jail time and a driving record that could have impaired his ability to be a commercial driver. He was also spared a decade of tripled insurance premiums.

Our client, a registered sex offender, approached our office because he wanted to clean up as much of his record as possible in anticipation of the new Tiered Registry Law. He wants to be able to make a good impression on the judge as someone responsible enough to clean up his record before petitioning to be removed from the registry. To that end, we very aggressively pursued an expungement of a hit-and-run conviction on his record, a violation of California Vehicle Code section 20002(a). Naturally, the odds were against us by virtue of our client’s registered sex offender status, in addition to the somewhat notorious nature of the hit-and-run conviction itself. Despite the odds, our Torrance criminal courthouse defense attorneys succeeded in persuading the judge to grant our 1203.4 Penal Code section petition for dismissal.

A man, long ago convicted of a sex offense, came to us about his old conviction, which he said has been costing him jobs, friends and quality of life. That man became our client. Despite all the naysayers and haters who said it couldn’t be done, our San Jose sex crimes defense attorneys were able to convince the court to grant our petition to expunge our clients record. We can now examine possible options to challenge then terminate his otherwise-lifetime sex offender registration.

Our client, a registered sex offender, was facing the imposition of a suspended sentence potentially approaching a decade of prison time. He was accused of having violated one of the conditions of his probation, which is not to use any social media. We argued that our client's use of social media had nothing to do with any illicit, sexual or unlawful purpose despite the condition and also argued the constitutionality of such a condition, among other arguments. The court did not impose either middle or high term but instead, the lowest possible term. Client got maximum custody credits, the lowest available custody time and the matter resolved successfully and to the great satisfaction of our client.

Our client was beset with problems in trying to get employment due to his registered sex offender status. He was also harassed and persecuted for his PC 290 registration status. Are we prepared a powerful legal argument with accompanying supporting exhibits, arguing that he should no longer be made to register as a sex offender. Not only did we succeed in petitioning for a certificate of rehabilitation for him (prior to the July 1, 2021 changing the law) so that he no longer had to register as a sex offender, but also, we notified the California department of justice of the court's decision with attached proof. The CalDOJ swiftly removed our client's sex offender profile from the Megan's Law website.

Sex Offender Client spared arrest or prosecution despite being “in violation”; we arranged for law-enforcement to successfully register our client despite previous failure to register: IN VIOLATION

Our client, an elderly man, was displayed on the Megans law website as being “in violation,” something which ordinarily occurs if a PC 290 registrant has failed to register, that is, failed to comply with his or her annual lifetime sex offender registration obligation. In or about December 2020, our client attempted to reach the police precinct registration office but despite numerous attempts wasn’t able to get a return call from the registration officer. Fortunately, our West Covina sex crimes defense attorneys discovered that our client was in violation and quickly contacted, in writing, the registration office. We were able to convince the officer to arrange for our client to come in to become current on his registration obligation. The office sure did not have to do so it could’ve simply refer to the matter to the District Attorney’s Office for prosecution. But on account of our persuasive skills, we were able to convince the officer to allow our client the opportunity to register. Our client is now current on his registration obligation and will not be facing a failure to register charge, which, if he had been and if it had resulted in a conviction, would have significantly delayed his ability to petition for removal from the sex offender registry pursuant to revised Penal Code section 290, i.e., the tiered registry law. Our client is extremely happy.

A client, who is required to register as a sex offender (largely on account of poor representation by his public defender) came to us to represent him against a looming accusation for failure to register as a sex offender violation of California Penal Code section 290.05. Our West Covina sex crimes defense attorneys spring into action, accompanied him to the police precinct where he is required to register despite assurance by his parole officer that he had failed to comply and would be facing prison time. We gathered proof of compliance to prove client had made good faith efforts to register. Rather than face the mandatory three-year prison commitment that comes with failing to register, we saved our client from being arrested and prosecuted on a failure to register accusation. Client is extremely happy and he can resume with his life.

Our client, a registered sex offender, came to us to help clean his record in anticipation of the New Tiered Registry Law (SB384 that was signed by Governor Brown in October 2017). The New Tiered Registry Law will take into consideration "all relevant..criminal conduct." Although our client cannot undo the past, we felt it would be helpful to expunge whatever expungeable convictions appear on his record to help persuade the court (in the future) that our client merits relief because he has been proactive in cleaning his record. Despite the heavy odds against us, our sex offender defense attorneys built a compelling case that our client's case should be expunged despite his sex offender PC290 status. The court GRANTED our Petition for Dismissal in the Interest of Justice per Penal Code 1203.4(a), helping to pave the way for future success in getting off the Registry.

Our client, a registered sex offender who had previously been on parole, wanted to be able to live in a suburb of Los Angeles County to be close to a disabled family member who needed a caretaker. However, the local sheriff's department strenuously objected to his residing in the community. As a result, our client justifiably feared arrest if he moved into that neighborhood. Our Sex Offender residency restriction lifting Attorneys assembled legal correspondence for the sheriff's department, arguing that our client (who is no longer on parole) is not subject to Jessica's Law and used supporting statutory and legal precedent, i.e., case law in support of our position. A sheriff's deputy directly contacted one of our attorneys and stated they would no longer object to our client moving there. Our client and his disabled family member are extremely happy with this result, and our client will now be able to take care of his relative without fear of incarceration.

Our client, a gentleman in his 60’s who was long convicted of a lifetime registrable offense, initially approached our office because he had suffered ridicule and alienation for decades as a consequence of his conviction. Moreover, he longed to be reunited with his family who lived outside of California but didn’t want to risk having to register in a second state. Our Riverside courthouse sex offender registration termination attorneys prepared the petition for his sex offender registration obligation to be terminated, as well as prepared for the possibility that the prosecutor would object to our client’s petition. Having fulfilled all of the notice requirements and having correctly processes petition, the Riverside courthouse granted our clients petition to be removed from the sex offender registry. His eyes welled with tears of joy when we notified him of the news. He is now ready to begin the next chapter his life without the burden of having to register yearly and without the indignity of being wrongfully perceived as a child molester.

Represented by a previous lawyer, our client had been convicted of a sex offender registerable offense. When he came to us many years after he had been convicted, he told us how crippling his registration obligation and prominent display on the Megan’s Law website and “mirror” websites online were to his social standing and his ability to keep or get better employment. Our Riverside county sex offender registration termination attorneys went to work, assembling the bevy of documents needed to petition the court. Our efforts paid off: our client is now officially no longer a registered sex offender. He is incredibly happy to be getting back his freedom, dignity, and humanity.

Our client, a deeply-religious and lawaabiding married man in his 50s, was previously convicted of a lifetime-sex offender registrable crime. He bemoaned the various hardships, humiliations, and other adversities he has had to endure over the years despite the decades that had gone by since his conviction. Our Sacramento sex offender registration termination attorneys conducted a thorough review of his background to pursue post-conviction remedies that would mitigate his background in anticipation of any objection from the prosecutor. We then went to work, preparing a masterful argument with supporting evidence that our client's criminal past is in the proverbial "rearview mirror," such that he has pivoted his conduct 180° from his criminal past and has since lived an upstanding, virtuous and irreproachable life. Sure enough, the Sacramento criminal courthouse granted our client's petition. Our client was overjoyed at the results and profusely thanked us for our dedicated, diligent and zealous advocacy on his behalf. To top it all off, the order was granted only a few weeks before his December birthday, making this the first year in decades he doesn't have to register as a sex offender. "It feels like an early Christmas present," he said. "Thank you, Coimbra Law Firm."

Our client, a middle-aged gentleman beset by years of having to register as a sex offender and all of the indignities that have come with it, came to our office seeking help in terminating his sex offender registration. Not only did we draft the petition and follow the protocol laid out under revised Penal Code section 290.5, but our Sacramento sex offender registration termination attorneys prepared for the likelihood that the prosecutor would lob an objection pursuant to Penal Code section 290.5 (a)(2). After our meticulous work, the Sacramento courthouse granted our petition and issued a signed and sealed CR–418 court order on petition to terminate sex offender registration. Our client is now free from the shackles of lifetimes sex offender registration and is ready to begin the next chapter of his life… one that no longer includes annual registration.

Our client was previously convicted, through prior counsel, being in possession of child pornography,
a violation of California Penal Code section 311.11(a). Given the extreme notoriety of his crime, the odds were against him getting any sort of post-conviction relief, especially given the relative recency of his conviction. Despite these adverse circumstances, we successfully motioned the court to terminate his probation early. Shortly thereafter, our Los Angeles County Superior Court Felony-to-Misdemeanor Reduction Attorneys also submitted a motion to reduce his felony child pornography conviction to a misdemeanor under Penal Code section 17 (d). Our California Tier Reduction Attorneys then proceeded to submit legal correspondence to the California Department of Justice requesting a reduction of his Lifetime Tier Level 3 to Tier Level 1. Sure enough, and three consecutive victories into his case later, CALDOJ re-issued his tier level designation Letter (a.k.a. tier assignment letter) so that he will be able to petition to be removed from the sex offender registration within a few years from now (i.e., ten years after his release) instead of never being able to get off the Registry. When we relayed the news to her client, he was moved to tears and has expressed his deep gratitude.

Our client, an industrious and career-driven person, was saddled by a "Carrying a Concealed Weapon" conviction (a violation of California Penal Code Section 25400---formerly 12025(a)) that happened nearly twenty (20) years ago. Despite her high degree of skill, she was unable to secure better employment on account of this long-ago mistake. Our West Covina courthouse expungement attorneys showed the judge that she had been living an exemplary, productive and law-abiding life ever since and that the court should exercise its power to liberate her from the chains of her conviction. Indeed, the Court agreed with our expungement law firm and granted her expungement petition. She can now go on to secure optimal employment becoming of her talents.

Our client faced nearly a decade in prison for felony drug possession, along with a prior strike, and child endangerment charges against him, after authorities found drugs in his family home during a probation search. But, due to the tireless and creative efforts of the Coimbra Law Firm, APC, our client will end up serving a little more than two years (if that). We maxed out his custody credits. We submitted powerful evidence in mitigation which pointed out the challenges the District Attorney would face in proving specific charges and discussed our client’s genuine efforts to reform. And our attorney strongly advocated on his behalf at a recent hearing at the Pomona Courthouse. The District Attorney dropped all of the child endangerment charges, and the case was favorably disposed in exchange for our client’s plea on the sole drug offense.

Our client, a young woman from Azusa, was arrested and cited for misdemeanor Petty Theft Charge, a violation of California Penal Code section 484. She was afraid of the impact this would have had on her life both in the short-term (possibility of jail time or years of probation) and in the long-term (destructive impact on her ability to find gainful employment). She had visited other attorneys who basically told her she should resign herself to being convicted and doing jail time. Our West Covina Petty Theft Charges Dismissal Attorneys undertook an aggressive defense, leading to the total and complete dismissal of her charges upon the completion of a class. She was ecstatic at the results that we got her and is happy she found us.

A 16-year-old boy who punched another guy at a gathering at a friend’s house earlier this year faced two felony charges, including a violent assault by means of force likely to cause great bodily injury, also known as Penal Code section 245(a)(4). When he was arrested at school a few weeks later, police found our client with a billy-club, a violation of Penal Code 22210. Our client had the billy-club after an unrelated attack on him by a homeless man.

For his alleged crimes, our client faced four years at a correctional camp, placement for youths who are typically identified as high-risk. Further, his record of conviction for the felony assault would never be destroyed, as is the case for other juvenile cases to promote rehabilitation. Our client had no previous criminal record, was not a gang member, and came from a largely stable middle-class home with a supportive family. Also, witnesses to the fight reported seeing the victim load up on Xanax and alcohol; they had described the victim as agitating the fights. To have convicted our client of the violent felonies at age 16 would have carried collateral consequences to negatively affect the rest of his life.

However, due to the aggressive and diligent efforts of Coimbra Law, APC, our client was convicted of the lesser charge of battery causing serious injury, Penal Code section 243(d). The second charge for the billy-club was dropped, and he was placed on probation for the next three years. Instead of our client being convicted and sentenced for a crime that could result of years of incarceration, the Pomona courthouse released our client today, so he can be back home with his family.

Client was faced with a felony charge for cocaine possession for sale out of the Alhambra courthouse in the San Gabriel Valley. He was looking at nearly a decade in a California State Prison. Our Alhambra courthouse criminal defense attorneys swept into action, forcefully challenging the evidence through powerful legal motion work and negotiation. Our determined defense work saved client from having to serve out 9 years in prison. He was released with no custody.

After our attorneys went to bat for this client, the DA agreed to allow our client to pay restitution in exchange for no jail time, no community labor, and no probation. This is a huge success, especially given the amount in controversy and aggravating circumstances involved in the alleged crime.

Our client was arrested and charged charged with misdemeanor violation of Health and Safety Code §11377 (a), possession of methamphetamines, misdemeanor violation of Safety Code §11350 (a), possession of cocaine. Because our client works in the property management industry with aspirations of one day owning his own property management company, avoiding a criminal conviction at trial and a jail or prison sentence were absolutely key. Our El Monte drug possession criminal defense attorneys challenged police procedures and raised serious fourth amendment concerns with the district attorneys office. On account of our efforts, our lawyers were able to secure a PC 1000 dismissal opportunity. Our client went home, no jail, no conviction. Upon successful completion of the program, the case will be completely dismissed, thereby protecting his record in addition to having avoided jail.

Our client, a young man who relies on his vehicle transportation for his job, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol, a violation of California vehicle code section 23152 (a) and driving with a .08 percentage of blood alcohol concentration, in violation of California vehicle code section 23152(b). Our West Covina courthouse drunk driving defense attorneys swung into action early and aggressively. As a result of our efforts, the West Covina district attorney rejected the filing of any case against our client. Simply put, we procured the total dismissal of his case. No plea deal. Just straight up dismissal.

Our client, a restauranteur, picked up a DUI, violation of California Vehicle Code Section 23152. Our Covina driver safety DUI DMV hearing attorneys Intervened early on in the case and convinced the DMV to set aside any license suspension action against our client. Sure enough, we prevailed and our client’s license remains intact, allowing him to drive with no problems.

Our client, a registered sex offender, was alleged to have violated Penal Code section 290, which requires that he register annually as a sex offender for life. The consequences of the conviction would have been dire given that the underlying conviction was for a felony, meaning that he could’ve gotten up to three years in a California state prison if convicted. Our Santa Clara county sex crimes defense attorneys aggressively defended him in court. As a consequence of our early and diligent representation, the San Jose courthouse dismissed the criminal complaint pursuant to California Penal Code section 1385, also known as “a dismissal in furtherance of justice.”

Our client, a young man who stood to lose his employment if he was convicted, approached our award-winning West Covina Courthouse attorneys in hopes of resolving his court case and avoiding jail.

However, setting an even higher standard for ourselves, our West Covina hit and run charges defense attorneys pushed for a total dismissal. We showed that there was reasonable doubt that our client was even responsible for the alleged property damage.

Sure enough, the prosecutor dismissed our client's case on the record.

Our client, a gentleman in his early senior years, retained our services to pursue his removal from lifetime sex offender registry. Because of his deep religious faith and the solace he obtained from worship services, he was particularly stung by many members of his congregation alienating him and ostracizing him over his registered sex offender status. The more he attempted to explain that he was not guilty of the crime of which he had been accused and ultimately convicted, the more it seemed people thought he was making excuses, causing them to alienate him even further. Anticipating the possibility that the prosecutor would object to his petition to terminate sex offender registration, our Martinez criminal courthouse attorneys prepared legal arguments and gathered documentation that would help establish our client’s merit and worthiness for relief. After having submitted the petition and having fulfilled the intricate notification requirements, the matter was heard and the court granted the petition we submitted on our client’s behalf. Moved to tears, our client was profuse, and his expression of gratitude to us. No longer living with the stigma of being identified as a registered sex offender, our client is ready to resume his life and a future that looks brighter than ever.

Our client, a young man with extensive criminal history, was found in possession of a firearm, and charged under PC 29800(a)(1). He was facing up to three years in county jail, and the prosecution was unwilling to negotiate anything other than jail time. Our lawyers requested an in-chambers meeting with the presiding judge, and convinced him to allow the client to serve only six months on house arrest instead of incarceration.

Our Orange County courthouse sex offender defense attorneys filed an expungement petition pursuant to California Penal Code section 1203.4. Specifically, we petitioned to expunge our client’s convictions under California Penal Code section 290.012(b), failure to register as a sex offender every 90 days minimum, and California Penal Code section 290.18 (f), mandating imprisonment for up to one year for registration violations. We were notified of the hearing set for our expungement petition on the eve of the hearing! In addition to that, the prosecutor, in effect, conducted “trial by ambush“ by submitting their opposition to our motion close to midnight of the day preceding the hearing on the petition! As you can imagine, we had to mobilize at lightning speed against such unfavorable odds, and such unfair tactics by the government. We resourcefully prepared a powerful counterargument to the prosecutor’s frivolous opposition. After a long day wherein the hearing was first continued from one day to the next and then from the morning to the afternoon, our Orange County sex offender defense law firm hit back with powerful legal arguments, prevailing upon the court to grant our client’s petition, expunging these very terrible convictions from his record. To the degree our client may be eligible, we can now look toward the new Tiered Registry Law slated for implementation in 2021, with the “wind in our sails” (having gained momentum from this important victory) and with the hope of removing our client from the Sex Offender Registry altogether!

Our client, a registered sex offender with an extensive criminal record, has turned his life around since he was released for his registrable conviction. He became a Christian pastor and has devoted his life to Christ and has refrained from engaging in further criminal conduct beyond his last previous charge or conviction. In pursuit of cleaning up his record as much as possible in anticipation of the New Tiered Registry Law pursuant to SB384, our post-conviction sex crimes defense attorneys filed expungement petitions for the following convictions: disturbing the peace, a violation of California Penal Code Section 415; public intoxication, violation of California Penal Code Section 647(f), and battery, a violation of California Penal Code Section 242. Although these expungements alone did not secure removal from the registry, they may serve a strong evidence that our client is committed to restoring his life, thereby possibly helping persuade a court of same at a future proceeding that may help determine his removal from the registry.

Our client, a young man, could have faced potential jail time, significant fines and fees, probation, and a minimum of TEN YEARS of raised insurance premiums...had he not made the astute decision of HIRING the Award-Winning DUI Defense Law Firm, Coimbra Law Firm. Due to our diligent efforts VERY early on in the case, our DUI defense lawyer persuaded the prosecutor to THROW OUT the DUI charge in favor of a reduced wet reckless count. The young man, who works in construction, was given NO JAIL TIME, and, instead, must only fulfill some reasonable court obligations and summary probation. The resolution did NOT result in a suspension his license, which would have occurred had he been convicted of the original charges of violating Vehicle Code sections 23152(A), driving under the influence, and 23152(B), driving with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 % or more.

Our client, a young woman who is gainfully employed and is very productive, came to our office after a dismaying event in her life occurred: she was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs (a violation of California vehicle code section 23152(a) CVC). She was also arrested for being in possession of a controlled substance (a violation of California Health & Safety Code Section 11350 H&S). A conviction at trial (or otherwise a poorly-handled pre-trial resolution) could have resulted in, not only in potentially significant jail time, but, also, virtually-certain deportation from the United States on account that our client is a DACA recipient. Understanding the potential severity and gravity of the criminal charges against her, our West Covina DUI attorneys, West Covina drug charges defense attorneys sprung into action, carefully reviewing the evidence against our client and challenging whether the evidence was properly collected on account of possible constitutional violations of our client’s rights. We further argued that, on account of our client’s lack of criminal sophistication, i.e., no identifiable criminal record, in addition to her valuable contributions to society as a working and productive young woman, the case should be dismissed. Sure enough, on account of our efforts, the prosecutor agreed to a dismissal of both accounts in exchange for a less severe misdemeanor California vehicle code section violation. Moreover, the prosecutor agreed not to pursue jail time. To that end, our client came away from the case unscathed, with the plea resolution optimized to protect her otherwise precarious immigration status. In other words, case (as originally charged) dismissed!

Our client was accused by the alleged victim's mother of having molested her underage daughter, known as lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor under 14 years old. Our sex crimes defense attorneys challenged the investigating officer and the prosecutor to produce forensic evidence to match up the verbal accusation. It became clear the government could not produce such evidence. Accordingly, our California sex crimes defense lawyers shut down the investigation and prosecution against our client. After approximately one year after the case opening up for investigation, The Los Angeles District Attorney's Office issued a "DA reject", refusing to pursue the matter on account of a lack of evidence. Considering that this easily could have led to lifetime sex offender registration for our client, as well as significant state prison time, this is an amazing victory.

DCFS investigated our client for possible removal of child on the basis that our client was allegedly smoking marijuana in front of or in the presence of his child. Our West Covina DCFS investigation defense attorneys sprung into action, challenging the allegation and proving that the child was not in any danger whatsoever. The DCFS closed its investigation and the prosecutor did not file any charge. Child endangerment is a violation of California Penal Code section 273a PC and, depending on the circumstances, I can carry up to eight years in the California state penitentiary. Our client was not ever charged and his child was never removed as a consequence of our early, steadfast and effective legal representation.

Our client was represented by a previous lawyer on a hit and run allegation. The previous lawyer irresponsibly agreed for our client to perform lengthy community service despite his obvious and various physical handicaps and disabilities. Unable to perform community service, our client was facing significant jail time at a violation hearing. Our West Covina criminal defense attorneys swept into action and argued that our client’s handicaps prevent him from carrying out community labor or community service. The judge agreed and where she would otherwise have sent our client to jail, the judge will be entertaining possibility of converting his community service to a fine. Our client walked out free.

Client, a registered nurse, faced a public intoxication charge from a night out on the town in Covina. A conviction would've been very dangerous because she is a registered nurse and she had been convicted of DUI, albeit many years ago. Prosecutor initially wanted a conviction, which would have resulted in revocation of our client's nursing license. Our public intoxication charges defense attorneys quickly went to work on getting the case thrown out and, after months of hard work, got the charge completely dismissed. No jail time. No conviction. Our client was able to retain her nursing license without a problem.

Our client was falsely accused of having been connected with vandalism of the Hollywood sign (modified to read "Hollyweed"). Our vandalism charges defense attorneys moved in swiftly to ensure that no charges were levied against our client. We were able to prove that there was no connection between our client and the culprit of that now-infamous vandalism event. Our client avoided arrest and no charges were filed.

Our client, a former registered sex offender whom we succeeded in having removed from the sex offender registry, continued to be profiled by “Homefacts”, an online data aggregator that publishes sex offender profiles. Our internet privacy attorneys went to work, preparing and communicating to Homefacts “cease and desist“ legal correspondence referencing the California Superior Court order removing our client from the sex offender registry. Our client was not only removed from the Sex Offender Registry and Megan’s Law, but also from Homefacts. Our client is now enjoying his privacy and anonymity Innoway he previously could not and he is immensely happy and grateful to our firm.

Our client was summoned to appear at the El Monte Courthouse on a “drunk in public” ticket (a violation of California Penal Code section 647f). Anyone convicted of 647f can be sentenced to jail for up to six months! Our El Monte public intoxication defense attorneys sprung into action. On the very first day, we achieved a negotiated settlement with the prosecutor, who agreed to drop the charge provided our client proved that he complete a court-ordered course. By doing so, our client avoided significant jail time and hefty fines.

Our client was charged with drunk driving. The odds were stacked against him from the beginning on account of prior DUI convictions, high blood alcohol concentration (BAC) and a collision with vehicles. Our Riverside County DUI defense attorneys sprung into action and argued for a dismissal or reduction. Prosecution AGREED to a dismissal of the DWI count and no-incarceration plea to the “b” count. Due to our results-driven work, our Riverside Hall of Justice drunk driving defense attorneys prevented any jail time for our client.

Our client, an elderly man with extensive illnesses, came to our office, and fear that he would be arrested due to the fact that he had failed to register for a few years under California Penal Code section 290. Our West Covina PC290 lawyers sprung into action, set up an appointment with the police agency where he was supposed to register and persuaded the police department not to take any arrest action against our client. After helping him get back in compliance, our client was able to leave without any incident.

Our client, a military veteran who dutifully served his country, had previously come to our office to discuss the various hardships and adversities he has faced as a registered sex offender. He told us he had visited other lawyers in the past but none of them seemed to have a grasp of the law as our law firm. After he hired us, we went to work gathering substantial documentation that would help in the event of any objection from the prosecutor to our petition to terminate sex offender registration. We also assembled various legal arguments to optimize our preparation. We submitted the necessary forms and served required notice on the district attorneys office and his annual registration office. One of our sex offender registration termination attorneys appeared in person with our client. Sure enough, the court granted his petition and our client is now officially “registration-free,” ready to begin the next chapter of his life on a positive note.

Our client, a middle-aged man from Alameda County, contacted our office because he was previously convicted of a sex offender registrable offense and had been placed on lifetime sex offender registration. He bemoaned the fact that he had faced intense housing, employment and other discrimination, and felt like a second-class citizen since his conviction. Our Alameda county sex offender registration termination attorneys undertook representation, assembling all the necessary documents to prepare against the potential of the prosecutor issuing an objection under California Penal Code section 290.5 (a)(2). After filing judicial council forms CR-415, et seq., complied with all of the notice requirements and the court set a hearing date. Sure enough, the court h granted the petition. Our client is now off the sex offender registry. He is eternally grateful to us and is ready to begin the next (registry-free) chapter of his life.

Our client’s publicly available sex offender profile demonstrated that he was “in violation” of his Penal Code 290 obligation to register as a sex offender. Our attorneys swept into action, carefully investing the source of this erroneous allegation. We attended the El Monte police department station with our client to show tangible proof that our client was in compliance with his PC290 registration obligation. Had we not attended with our client, the police officer would’ve proceeded with the “in violation” indication on our client’s profile and arrested him immediately. Fortunately, our El Monte sex crimes defense attorney was able to establish that our client was in compliance and the officer. The officer acknowledged a clerical error in their system and our client was processed without incident and without any arrest whatsoever. Crisis averted.

Our Amador County sex crimes defense attorneys undertook representation of a convicted California sex offender who is seeking to clean his record in anticipation of the New Tiered Registry Law slated to take effect in 2021. Due to the legal and moral stigma associated with our client’s sex offender status, the odds were stacked against him from the get-go. Despite this, our Amador County criminal defense attorneys prepared a powerful petition, backed up by a formidable legal presence in court. As a consequence of our advocacy, the Amador County Superior Court approved a petition to dismiss — in furtherance of justice per Penal Code section 1203.4(a)— a past conviction of driving with a suspended or revoked license, a violation of California vehicle code section 14601.1 (A). Our client is elated that he will likely stand a much better chance of successfully petitioning to come off the sex offender registry given that this victory softened the blow of a past conviction on his record.

Client, M.L., was charged with lewd and lascivious conduct in violation of California Penal Code section 288(a). He stood to lose everything he ever worked for, including a stellar background in finance. Prosecutor was adamant that he should register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. Our lewd and lascivious conduct defense attorneys aggressively challenged the allegations. We persuaded prosecutor to drop the 288(a). Client was spared prison and lifetime sex offender registration. He was able to return to his normal life and pursue his career.

Our client, S.M., who was investigated for financial fraud accusation, was the subject of an arrest warrant at Rancho Cucamonga courthouse. Our Rancho Cucamonga courthouse criminal defense attorneys swept into action and had the court terminate the warrant. Client could have spent the remainder of her criminal proceedings in custody but, thanks to our swift and effective challenge of the warrant, client obtained O.R. release.

A young lady came to our office after having received a terrifying letter from the Anaheim police department indicating that there was a warrant for her arrest on account of a missed court appearance. Needless to say, our client, a young mother, shivered with horror upon receiving this potentially life-changing correspondence from the police. Our Fullerton Courthouse criminal defense attorneys swung into action immediately. We quickly began the investigation of the case into the nature of the charges and prepared, for the better part of 72 hours, to face the court and to attempt to get the warrant terminated. Our attorney showed up with our client, who was physically nervous, shivering and jittering at the very real probability that she was going to go into custody. Thankfully, her fears were ultimately relieved: our Fullerton warrant recall defense attorney was able to persuade the court to dismiss the warrant. Our attorney, through masterful rhetoric, laid out the case for the termination of the warrant. Our client was released on her own recognizance without having had to pay one cent of an otherwise $25,000 bail. She became emotional in the hallway outside the court, expressing sheer gratitude that we were able to spare her from the living hell of jail.

Our client, a successful personal trainer, was unable to continue gym operations due to the coronavirus pandemic closure. He had no choice but to temporarily pursue employment. As a fluent English and Spanish speaker, he wanted to provide translation services for an online employer but, in order to do so, he would have had to disclose his past conviction for battery, a violation of California Penal Code Section 242 PC, which would have greatly reduced his chances of being hired. What's more, in order not to fall behind on his finances, he would have to secure employment immediately or as soon as possible. Our Alhambra Courthouse Expungement Attorneys immediately but thoroughly packaged a 1203.4 application with a Memorandum of Points and Authorities that included an argument for "expedited consideration." Despite the odds against our client, the court GRANTED the Petition and without the necessity of a hearing, to boot (which we believe was on account of the prima facie persuasiveness of our motion). Our client is ecstatic because he is no longer saddled under the weight of his past criminal conviction.

Our client, a US Army veteran, was penalized for sexual assault and discharged from the military for a consensual conduct at a time when the infamous "don't ask, don't tell" discriminatory policy against LGBT soldiers was in effect. The Board of Registered Nursing issued a complaint against our client upon discovering the sexual battery accusation in our client's military background. Our client stood to lose everything he worked for, including his nursing license. Our nursing criminal defense attorneys and licensing law lawyers immediately and aggressively pushed for a complete dismissal of the complaint. We won. Our client can now return to his profession without the looming threat of losing his license.

Our client, a young West Covina woman, was charged driving under the influence of alcohol in violation of California Vehicle Code sections 23152a and 23152b. After our West Covina Courthouse DUI attorneys successfully resolved that matter, which included not a single day in the county jail, our Board of Registered Nursing Defense Attorneys turned our attention to the pending BRN investigation triggered by the underlying DUI arrest. We strenuously argued that our client had never previously been arrested, was an exemplary nursing student and that her case in court was successfully resolved. Rather than suspend or revoke it to her clients license, as the BRN is known to do in many DUI cases represented by other lawyers, the Board granted probation on the most generous possible terms under the circumstances. Our client is in the process of meeting probationary obligations and, after she completes them, will be able to pursue the career of her dreams, which is to help other people through her nursing skills.

Our client, a registered nurse, was charged with driving under the influence in violation California vehicle code sections 23152(a) and 23152(b). As a result of our early, efficient and aggressive intervention in her criminal case, our West Covina Courthouse DUI attorneys were able to resolve the matter successfully. In addition to accomplishing the successful court resolution of her case, West Covina board of vocational nursing charges defense attorneys were able to prevent the board from taking adversarial action against our clients nursing license. Our client not only was able to avoid any jail time but is able to keep her vocational nursing license free and clear of any suspension or revocation.

A young man came to our office after having been arrested for Boating Under the Influence (BUI) in violation of California Harbors & Navigation Code 655. Our Victorville courthouse criminal defense attorneys swung into action, immediately intervening in advance of any criminal filing. Sure enough, the case was not charged and our client avoided jail time and a conviction that could’ve resulted in a permanent blemish on his criminal record.

Our client, a young man residing out of state with a promising future medical vocational career, was busted for having violated Harbors and Navigations Code 655, otherwise known as “Boating Under the Influence”. Jail, prison and a conviction for 2 BUI counts could have devastated his chances of getting the career of his dreams in the future. Our Victorville BUI defense attorneys went to work. As a result of our involvement in the case, our client walked away without one day in jail and with a measles 8-hour safety course to take. The remaining BUI count was completely dismissed.

Our client was summoned to appear at the Pomona courthouse to answer to a criminal accusation of driving while intoxicated as well as driving with a .08 percentage of blood alcohol concentration. The facts were very unfavorable, including an allegation that our client fell asleep and smashed into a wall. Despite these unfavorable factual details, our office fought extremely hard for a dismissal of the “driving while intoxicated“ accusation. A lengthy alcohol program, jail time, and a DWI conviction were all avoided in favor of a reduced “B” account, with some community labor and other non-jail consequences.

Our client, a member of the police department, was arrested for suspected driving while intoxicated in violation of California Vehicle Code Section 23152(a). The circumstances of his arrest included altercation with fellow police officers and the prosecutor had ample opportunity to file battery on a police office (a violation of California Penal Code 243(b) and 243(c)). At minimum, the prosecutor could have filed resisting arrest, a violation of California Penal Code 148(a)(1). However, due to our early and aggressive intervention, the prosecutor never filed any such charges though it would have had good reason to do so. They also dismissed the DWI count. Matter resolved for lesser plea. Client served absolutely no jail time on account of this resolution. Another successful result.

Our client is a young man in the financial sector. He was apprehended for Petty Theft (violations of California Penal Code Sections 484(a) & 488 PC). If convicted, our client stood to lose not only his freedom (up to one year in the county jail!), but also the illustrious financial career for which he had worked so hard. Our West Covina petty theft charges defense attorneys sprung into action. We challenged the evidence against our client, as well as presented a series of mitigation factors to diminish the severity of the charge against our client. Sure enough, a judge at the Citrus Courthouse (West Covina Courthouse) DISMISSED the petty theft charges against our client (in favor of a minor infraction). In so doing, we were able to protect our client from the ruination of his life.

Our client is a young man with a career that requires his ability to freely operate his vehicle. He was arrested for DUI and, worried about his freedom and his future, contacted our West Covina drunk driving defense attorneys. Our West Covina DUI defense lawyers swept into action. We notified the Department of Motor Vehicles in writing to place to stay on any suspension of our client's license and began amassing materials for our client’s defense. Owing to our swift and early intervention, the DMV placed a SET ASIDE of any suspension of our client’s driver license. Our client gets to keep his license free of any suspension.

Our client, a promising college student with career ambitions, was accused of having assaulted her live-in boyfriend. The prosecutor was going to file domestic battery charges against her. A California domestic violence conviction would have destroyed her life, her dreams and any ambitions of pursuing her desired career. Our Long Beach courthouse domestic violence attorneys intervened in her defense in advance of her arraignment. We advocated on her behalf before the Long Beach city attorney's office at a city attorney hearing. After doing so, the Long Beach city attorney's office dismissed her case, deciding not to pursue any prosecution against our client.

He spilled his milkshake in the car. He then lost control of the wheel, slammed into a parked luxury vehicle on a dealership lot of all places, which then slammed into another parked luxury auto. The driver, our client, lived nearby and decided to just walk home after, leaving the crumpled mess of three vehicles behind—along with his spilled milkshake.

For this unfortunate chain of events, our client faced up to six months in the county jail for violating Vehicle Code section 20002(a), hit and run resulting in property damage, a misdemeanor.

Due to the diligent efforts of Coimbra Law Firm, APC attorneys, who negotiated with the injured parties and presented strong arguments on behalf of our client, our client avoided any jail time and avoided having to pay any excessive fines. A judge at the West Covina Courthouse recently sentenced our client to two years of probation, less than three days of community service, and minor court costs.

Client had been pulled over for erratically driving on the freeway. Her blood alcohol concentration (BAC) was nearly 3 times the legal limit. In most situations, a defendant with these facts would be facing a minimum alcohol program of 9 months and possibly jail time. Due to our skillful West Covina driving while intoxicated defense attorneys, we attained the dismissal of the driving while intoxicated charge. Client will be taking minimum alcohol program, instead, and there will be no jail time.

Young man in Arcadia / TSA employee contacted our West Covina DUI attorneys to represent him against accusation of drunk driving. Despite unfavorable field sobriety test results, our drunk driving attorneys secured dismissal of DUI charge and reduction too wet reckless. Rather than have to serve out three or more years of probation with extended alcohol program and ignition interlock device, our client will be avoiding those consequences in favor of minimal probation and fines and no IID. He will avoid having a drunk driving conviction on his record thanks to the hard work of our driving under the influence lawyers.

A young man with a career in banking, who also seeks to go to law school someday, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol in violation of California Vehicle Code 23152a and Driving with .08 BAC or higher, in violation of California Vehicle Code 23152b. Our Van Nuys courthouse DUI defense attorneys swept into action and challenged the field sobriety test, the officer's statement and the forensic evidence the prosecutor had amassed against him. Through diligent defense work and negotiating skill, our DUI defense attorneys achieved a DISMISSAL of his DUI charge. Matter resolved for a lesser plea and client served no jail time and his driving record was not besmirched by any DUI conviction.

Our client, an EMT technician, was arrested for having driven under the influence. It was later determined that his blood alcohol content was .20, which is over double the legal limit, almost 3 times the legal limit, in fact. Our West Covina high BAC DUI defense attorneys amassed bargaining power against the government, discovering the vast inconsistencies in the police officer’s report that called into question our client’s guilt. What, at first hand, appeared to be a case that would resolve with extensive county jail time because of the extremely high blood alcohol content, ended up resolving in a dismissal of count one, driving while under the influence of alcohol, and a non-jail time resolution of the rest with greatly-reduced terms. Our client is tremendously satisfied and grateful for our hard work, which we are happy and honored to undertake on behalf of our clients.

Our client, a registered sex offender, wanted to have his probation terminated early. We noticed that his underlying conviction, violation of California Penal Code section 311.11 (a) is a “wobbler” other Penal Code section 17 (b). We moved forward with both motions and the court granted not only granted early termination of probation but also our 17 (b) motion to reduce from felony to misdemeanor. This has the high potentiality of placing our client in Tier 1 under California’s revised Penal Code section 290.5, i.e., Tiered Registry Law, such that, upon the passage of his 10 years from being released from custody, he will qualify to be petitioned to be removed from the sex offender registry.

Our client is enormously happy with our results in his case and feels that he got even more than what he bargained for in terms of our services for him.

Our client, a registered sex offender under Penal Code 290, came to us in order to seek early termination of his probation. His probation officer refused to issue a recommendation that our client’s probation be terminated. Despite the probation officer’s opposition, our West Covina early termination of probation attorneys persuaded the court to terminate our client’s probation early. He is no longer under the thumb of his probation officer and is free of the burdensome probation conditions that he used to have.

Penal Code 290 registrant client was placed on lengthy felony probation, also known as formal probation, as a consequence of his conviction. Our sex crimes defense attorneys were able to convince the court that, based on the good conduct of our client, as well as a showing of his productivity and completion of his probation obligations, that our written motion to terminate probation early should be granted. Despite vigorous prosecutor opposition, the court granted our motion. Our client is no longer on burdensome felony probation.

Our client, a gentleman in his 70’s, was previously convicted of a lifetime registrable offense, specifically California Penal Code Section 311.11(a), possession of illegal images. Because he was convicted of the felony version of this offense, he was initially designated Tier 3 - Lifetime. He told us he had heard of the wonderful results we had achieved for other Registrants. He had previously consulted other attorneys, who either told him it wasn’t possible to change his tier designation or who failed to show a competent understanding of California sex offender registration law. After securing our legal representation, our El Dorado sex offender registration termination attorneys went to work, first filing a Motion to Reduce his Felony 311.11(a) Conviction, which the court granted. Our lawyers immediately contacted the California Department of Justice to request a new tier designation, which was granted upon proof of the reduction of our client’s felony to a misdemeanor. With our client’s new tier designation, we filed his petition to terminate sex offender registration. The court GRANTED the petition we prepared and filed for him. Our client’s family expressed eternal gratitude for our efforts. We are so happy to have restored our client’s honor, dignity and humanity.

Our client, before retaining us, had previously sustained a conviction for Lewd and Lascivious Acts with a Minor (violation of Penal Code, section 288 (a)) in the early 1990s. He had been accused of molesting his stepson (though there was no corroborating forensic evidence to substantiate the allegation). Evidently due in part to deficient former counsel, he was ultimately convicted and sentenced to 14 years in prison, though he actually served half. Despite the onerous burdens and indignities he was made to endure from his lifetime sex offender registrable conviction, as well as the humiliation of a very public presence (CalDOJ Megan’s Law Website and a bevy of commercially-owned “mirror” sites), our client maintained his resolve to pick up the broken pieces of his life. He maintained a completely law-abiding life and immersed himself in wholesome, productive and altruistic conduct. When he came to us as a prospect, our client was desperate to reclaim his freedom, dignity, and humanity, telling us the various ways in which his life had been so utterly, completely, and existentially upended. Our Placerville sex offender registration termination attorneys went to work preparing the petition. But that's not all they did. In anticipation of a potential objection from the government, our El Dorado county sex offender registration termination lawyers gathered evidence that would substantiate our client's merit and worthiness to be removed from the sex offender registry (pursuant to SB 384, a.k.a. revised PC 290, et seq). Just as we had intuited, the district attorney filed and served Judicial Council form CR-417 indicating their opposition to our client's petition on the grounds that “community safety would be significantly enhanced by [our client’s] continued registration." Our attorneys conducted abundant legal research and prepared a motion to grant our clients CR-415 petition over the objection of the prosecution. Between the memorandum of points and authorities and supporting exhibits, the motion was literally one-hundred (100) pages in length. More importantly, it was substantively compelling and persuasive, with a deep analysis of the registration statute and its application to our client. The “community safety, hearing” (or "bench trial" that was calendared to litigate the prosecutor's objection) was very contentious: our trial attorney and the prosecutor passionately argued their positions, and the judge initially appeared to side with the prosecution. However, our trial attorney gave a rousing presentation replete with references to the “critical factors” enunciated in the statute and public policy arguments that had driven Senate Bill 384 to being signed into law. Despite her initial reservations due to the severity of the facts previous alleged against our client, and apparently swayed by our trial attorney's arguments, the honorable judge (a very wise and learned jurist) granted our petition. Our client and his wife were moved to tears, realizing that this would the beginning of a new, stigma-free, registration-free chapter of their lives. Their expressions of gratitude were profuse, exuberant and felicitous.

Our client, a hard-working resident of the San Gabriel Valley, was arrested after he collided against a barrier. His blood alcohol concentration was four times the legal limit (i.e., .34 BAC). Worse yet, our client had been convicted (through different, previous counsel) of having violated Vehicle Code 23152 (DUI) back in 2016. When he came to our office, before he retained our services, our client told us about his fears that he would go to jail (given that the penalty for second DUI is up to one year in the county jail) and that he may have up take the 30-month alcohol program, which would interfere with his ability to make a livelihood given the time commitment. Our El Monte Courthouse Second DUI Attorneys went to work to prepare a powerful defense despite the damning evidence against the client. Having poured through the discovery, we identified a series of weaknesses, including but not limited to Title 17 violations that allowed us to question the admissibility or, at minimum, the credibility of the outrageously-high BAC results. Without the results, there would be virtually toxicological evidence the DA would’ve had to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt since they had no chemical test specimen. Our El Monte DUI with collision attorneys prepared and submitted to the DA a masterpiece of legal correspondence with abundant case law and statutory authority. Sure enough, as a result of our insistence that our client avoid the worst outcome, we successfully resolved the case so that our client did NOT have to take the 30-month alcohol program, did NOT have to attend HAM/MADD, got ZERO jail for the predicate offense (apart from 4 days for the prior, to be run concurrent with custody for the chemical test refusal so still 4 days [for which it's likely he would be essentially booked and released though we got him private custody as an option], and remaining standard terms. Our client is extraordinarily happy and grateful for our hard work despite the odds against him.

Our client, a prospective employee at a telecommunications company, was facing the possibility of not being hired to an important position due to the presence of a failure to appear, FTA on his record (resulting from a previous missed court appearance). Our West Covina attorneys sprung into action, secured a court date to address the FTA and had the FTA removed from his case docket. As a result of our swift action, our client was able to successfully complete a background check and is now getting the job of his dreams.

Our client faced potentially up to 6 years in prison (3 years high term times two because of prior strike) for failing to report a change in address, as is required of § 290 registrants. Instead, he will be going home in less than 190 days, due to the diligent efforts of our sex crimes defense attorneys. And his family cannot wait to celebrate! Our client was arrested on his 73 ^rd birthday. He was registered at one address but had been caring for his ailing mother at least twice a week at another address, which authorities felt triggered a registration violation. Our sex crimes defense lawyers successfully negotiated with prosecutors and the court to not only cut in half a proposed sentence term but then double our client’s custody credits, resulting in a sentence of about 6 months before factoring in the credit for time already served. Our client will be home well before his next birthday and in time to continue caring for his mother.

Our client, a registered sex offender, was accused of having failed to register as a sex offender pursuant to Penal Code section 290.01(a)(1). Our sex crimes defense attorneys sprung into action, reached out immediately to the prosecutor and represented our client in court. The prosecutor dismissed of the accusation. Our client could have face to multiple years in the state prison for this alleged violation. Instead, and our failure to register charges lawyers got the matter thrown out.

Our client recently married, received a job promotion, and was looking forward to other promising opportunities after years of hardship, heartache, and struggle. He felt that finally, his life was approaching a hopeful turning point. Then, he was arrested.

Even though he had been fully compliant with his sex offender registrations over the years—reporting changes in addresses and reporting annually— and even though he had committed no offenses since his conviction (which stemmed from his own childhood exploitation), our client was charged in Santa Clara County for allegedly violating Penal Code section 290.009.

The misdemeanor offense stated that “[a]ny person required to register under the [Sex Offender Registration] Act who is enrolled as a student or is an employee or carries on a vocation, with or without compensation, at an institution of higher learning in this state, shall register pursuant to the provisions of the Act.” Our client was not enrolled as a student nor was he employed at the school; he simply volunteered every so often with a religious organization that appeared on a university campus. Neither he nor the entity was affiliated with the school.

The prosecutor offered 90 days in jail, two years of probation, and other court-related fines to resolve the case. However, the team at Coimbra Law Firm, APC, diligently attacked each element of the prosecutor’s case – and, ultimately, the case against our client was DISMISSED.

Our client, a middle-aged man in the car sales industry who is required annually to register as a sex offender, came to our office in hopes of cleaning up his background. He was concerned that his failure to register as a sex offender conviction would needlessly delay his eligibility to petition for removal from the California lifetime sex offender registry, i.e., tiered registry removal. Our Fresno expungement attorneys went to work on his case. Despite the odds against him, we were able to convince the court to expunge his PC290(b) conviction. Having cleaned up this ugly stain on his criminal record — an important victory, no doubt - we will next be challenging his sex offender registration requirement.

Our client was falsely accused by a malevolent ex-partner with an axe to grind. This caused the police to wrongfully arrested our client and face rape charge (violation of California Penal Code section 261). Due to our early, determined, aggressive and effective sex crimes representation, our West Covina rape charges defense attorneys were able to accomplish what other lawyers can only dream of: a total dismissal of the charge. Our client was exonerated and freed. (He now has the ability to launch a civil prosecution against the accuser for having filed a false police report.)

At the hearing to end probation early on a federal child pornography conviction, our client’s probation officer rattled off a list of supposed violations before the judge. Admittedly our client, who was sentenced to 8 years probation after his prison sentence, presented a few challenges, including an episode where his computer was seized while on probation. However, our attorneys were ready. The Judge had a strong Motion before him, detailing our client’s rehabilitative growth, renewed spirituality, and recognized leadership roles in various support groups. Our attorney at the hearing aggressively attacked the merits of the purported violations. Ultimately, the Judge saw that our client had made progress and no longer posed a threat to warrant continued probation. His Order: EARLY TERMINATION OF SUPERVISED RELEASE GRANTED.

Our client, who was in the process of resettling overseas, inadvertently some old prescription narcotic pills sold on craigslist. He was charged and convicted, through his inefficient previous attorney, of having violated California health and safety code section 11350 (a felony). He was placed on five years formal probation, with burdensome conditions including but not limited to 24/7/365 search and seizure conditions. A native of Peru, he wanted to reunite with his family but was unable to do so because of his travel restrictions. Our West Covina early termination of probation attorneys got to work, assembling and constructing a powerful legal argument for the early termination of our clients probation. Sure enough, the judge agreed, terminating our clients probation nearly 3 years before his probation was over. Our client was overjoyed, expressed regret that he did not hire us sooner but was ecstatic at the result we obtained for him. He walked out of the courthouse a free man and has since reunited with his family

Our client was charged with having violated California Health and Safety Code 11360 HS, which makes it a crime to sell, give away, import into the state, or transport for sale any amount of marijuana without a state license (and any required local licenses). A felony conviction would have made our client’s imprisonment and deportation a virtual certainty. Our Victorville courthouse drug trafficking charges defense attorneys investigated and uncovered severe deficiencies in the evidence against our client. Our attorneys gained the leverage needed to command an outcome of our choosing, namely, no felony plea, no jail, prison or any custody whatsoever. We were also able to achieve a simple misdemeanor plea where our client would not be admitting to the facts alleged against him, and the trafficking allegation was reduced to “giving away” rather than “selling” contraband, a distinction that is consummately important in avoiding deportation. Our client is happy and satisfied beyond words.

Our client, cemetery plot salesman, was accused of having forged signatures for "up sales" in burial ground and cemetery plot sales contract. Our fraud defense attorneys immediately intervened, contacting the prosecutors office and challenging them to provide evidence of this outrageous and false accusation. All through our representation, our white collar criminal defense lawyers were aggressive and relentless in pursuing a total dismissal of all charges. Sure enough, we succeeded. No charges were filed against our client as a result of our early intervention.

Our client, a 290 PC registrant, was saddled with burdensome felony probation. His father, concerned about his son, our client’s well-being in view of the onerous probation requirements, hired our CCB early termination of probation attorneys. We encountered resistance from the probation officer and bureaucratic delays. Despite that, our West Covina early termination of probation attorneys persuaded the court to grant our motion to terminate our client’s probation several months and/or years in advance of his probation expiry.

Our client, a security guard, was charged with a violation of California Penal Code sections 25400(a) and 25850(a), carrying a concealed weapon and carrying a loaded firearm, respectively. Due to the urgent nature of a security call to which he responded, our client did not have time to put on his identifying uniform, as required by law. Consequently, the West Covina Police Department took him into custody and the prosecutor filed criminal charges. Our West Covina firearms charges defense attorneys swung into action. We were able to show the context in which the alleged incident occurred and showed that the alleged noncompliance was not intentional. We convinced the prosecutor to dismiss the criminal accusation in exchange for our client completing community labor and a firearm safety class. The prosecutor completely dismissed the case per California Penal Code section 1385, dismissal in the interest of justice.

A client who faced a nearly $400 ticket for allegedly speeding near Citrus College beat the citation at trial with the diligent efforts of Coimbra Law Firm, APC. After arguing that the lack of conspicuous signage or other notice of the speed limit along our client’s route abrogated her due process rights, our team continued to doggedly fight the ticket until a judge at the West Covina Courthouse ruled in our client’s favor.

Our client had previously been convicted of having violated California Penal Code section 311.11 (a), otherwise known as possession of illegal images or possession of obscene materials depicting minors. He subsequently hired a local lawyer to petition for a reduction of his felony conviction to a misdemeanor conviction. That lawyer, according to our client, did a very mediocre job, resulting in the failure of his petition. Moreover, their customer service was terrible and he felt neglected and taken for granted by that lawyer. Just as he was about to lose hope, he discovered our Fresno sex crimes law firm. Impressed with our record of successful accomplishments for our other clients, this gentleman did not hesitate for one second and retained our services. Our Fresno sex crime attorneys went to work, drafting a massive motion with a memorandum of points and authorities that contained powerful, compelling and irresistible legal arguments as to why our client’s conviction ought to be dropped to a misdemeanor. Despite the prosecutor’s strenuous objection, the court granted our motion to drop the felony illegal images victim to a misdemeanor pursuant to Penal Code Section 17(b). Now that our client is no longer on Tier 3 (which he had previously been because his 311.11(a) was a victim), we will be able to file a Petition to Terminate his Sex Offender Registration Obligation. Our client is extremely happy with our work. And we are happy to have had the honor of helping him achieve this wonderful outcome.

Before becoming our client, this registrant reported to us how much his lifetime sex offender registration obligation had impacted his life. From harassment and death threats from people who found out about him on the Internet, to ultimately his wife leaving him, our client was fed up with the endless punishment for a mistake that happened decades prior. Our Fresno sex offender registration termination attorneys went to work, gathering documentation that would help counter any prosecutor argument that keeping him on the registry rather than off would enhance community safety. Our sex offender registration termination law firm processed all of the necessary paperwork and went through the tedious notice requirements. Despite the odds against our client, we prevailed and the Fresno criminal court granted our petition to remove our client from the lifetime sex offender registry. He can now begin a new life without the “scarlet letter” of the sex offender label following him around.

Our client was the subject of whistleblower retaliation by a neighbor because our client had called the police on neighbor for beating up his dog. The police intervened and Animal Control removed the victim dog from Complainant’s property. Neighbor initiated a campaign of online defamation against our client. Further, he filed a frivolous complaint with the HOA because our client had installed a surveillance camera on his own property (for the protection of himself and his family against burglaries). Neighbor was implying that our client was using the camera to conduct surveillance on neighbor, an utterly baseless, false and preposterous allegation. Our neighbor harassment defense attorneys sprung into action, showing the context of neighbor’s vindictive actions and exposing his complaint as utterly meritless (and made to get back at our client for client calling the cops against neighbor for animal abuse). The HOA ruled in favor of our client and dismissed the defamatory complaint.

Our client, a registered sex offender, approached our office after having received disturbing news that someone had filed a restraining order petition against him. Worse yet, the restraining order application identified some potentially felonious sex crime accusations, such that, if the accuser prevailed, it likely would have led to felony sex crimes charges against our client, who would be facing severe criminal repercussions on account of his PC290 registrable past conviction. Our Pomona courthouse restraining order defense attorneys identified some disturbing discrepancies in the accusatory statements issued by the petitioner in the case. Rather than simply reach a compromise, our Pomona courthouse restraining order trial attorney took the petitioner to task in a bench hearing, employing masterful cross examination against the accuser. Like a snake shedding its skin, the petitioner’s lies disintegrated and fell apart in full view of the judge and court staff. After exposing the deceitful nature of the petition and how the accuser was using it as a way of circumventing a guardian at litem order that had been previously issued, our Pomona restraining order lawyer motioned to the court for a full dismissal of the frivolous restraining order. Our motion was granted and our client was spared the indignity and the potential catastrophe of a restraining order that would’ve preceded a permanent injunction against him.

Our client, a very friendly middle-aged man and sadly a recent widower, came to our office and bemoaned the fact that he’s had to register for nearly 3 decades and desperately wanted to get off the registry. Unfortunately, he also had a failure to register conviction several years after his registerable offense. To complicate things further, the Riverside district attorney’s office would have to be notified of the petition for removal because that is the county where his conviction happened. He was afraid that the prosecutor may make things difficult in attempting to get off the registry due to the severity of his conviction. Our West Covina sex offender registration termination attorneys went to work, preparing for the possibility that the prosecutor would ask for a community safety hearing. We gathered the necessary documents and prepared to deliver a masterful argument in court as to why removing our client from the sex offender registry would not endanger community safety in any way. We submitted the forms and followed the strict procedure of the Tiered registry law. Our attorney appeared in person with our client. There was some back-and-forth between our attorney and the judge as well as the prosecutor that made it feel like the prosecutor would object. But our attorney, with his masterful knowledge of Penal Code section 290 and Penal Code section 290.5, argued that our client was unambiguously eligible for removal. The prosecutor relented and the judge granted our client’s petition. Our client was happy, ecstatic and elated beyond words.

Our client, a busy entrepreneur, was pulled over by a police officer alleging that he was driving while texting, a violation of California vehicle code section. Our West Covina traffic infraction attorneys succeeded in arguing that our client was in compliance with the law because he used his cell phone within the “hands-free exception” carved out by the statute. The court dismissed the case and our client was refunded his bail.

Before becoming our client, a gentleman (who is a busy professional-licensed businessman) was cited for alleged violation of California vehicle code section 21461a CVC, also known as failure to obey, traffic sign or signal. Because a Conviction, for this infraction can trigger 1 DMV point on a motorists driving record, our client was eager to have the case dismissed and it’s entirety (rather than settling and having to do traffic school). Our West Covina Courthouse traffic ticket dismissal Attorneys went to work identifying potential weaknesses in the police officer’s case. The matter was ultimately set for traffic trial and the police officer showed up. Despite this and, we believe, owing to our early preparation of a defense, the court dismissed the citation in its entirety. Our client is extremely happy that, once bail is refunded, he will have paid zero fine whatsoever and, more importantly, will not have any traffic conviction on his record stemming from this citation. Also, he can go back to work without having to attend traffic school, which would have otherwise consumed valuable time.

A gentleman in his late 30s contacted us regarding his prior sex offender registrable conviction. He told us about how much harm the repercussions of that conviction had caused him, including but not limited to loss of employment and inability to find better work, given the stigma and infamy associated with the nature of his offense. To further complicate matters, he also had another criminal conviction (DUI, violation of California Vehicle Code section 23152(a)). We anticipated that the prosecution would object to his petition because pursuant to California Penal Code section 290.5 (a)(3), the court can consider other (including non-registrable) convictions in it’s determination as to whether to grant or deny the petition. Our West Covina sex crimes defense attorneys went to work, immediately but thoroughly drafting and submitting an expungement petition per California Penal Code section 1203.4 to expunge his DUI case. The court granted the expungement; we then gathered the necessary documentation to submit his petition for termination from the PC290 sex offender registry. Despite the odds against our client, our West Covina sex offender registration termination lawyers PREVAILED and the court granted the petition to terminate sex offender registration. Our client is eternally grateful for our hard work on his behalf. With so much of his life still ahead of him, our client can now look forward to the next (and registry-free) chapter in his life.

Our client, a busy lawyer, was trying to make himself through the busy 210 freeway heading west toward Pasadena. A California highway patrol motorcycle cop hiding out in the shoulder on or about the Azusa stretch of the freeway pulled him over and issued a traffic ticket citation for alleged violation of California vehicle code section 21655.5 (b), also known as a carpool lane violation. Our West Covina courthouse traffic tickets citation dismissal attorneys went to work, drafting a masterful traffic trial by declaration, arguing for a total dismissal of the traffic ticket. Sure enough, the court granted our motion and the ticket was thrown out. Our client is ecstatic at this wonderful result.

Our client, a young woman and academic overachiever, is pulled over by a traffic cop and cited for speeding above 65 mph, violation of California Vehicle Code section 22349 VC. Given that she had received other traffic citations, this new speeding citation would have required her to pay exorbitant fees as well as added a blemish on her driving record that would have resulted in increased drivers insurance rates overtime. Our West Covina traffic trial attorneys achieved a complete dismissal of her speeding ticket/citation. Our client is immensely happy about this result.

Glendora police officer stopped defendants vehicle. After an abrasive and rude encounter with our client, police officer cited her for vehicle code violation that could have had a significant impact on her California drivers license record if convicted. Our office moved swiftly, diligently and aggressively in the direction of a complete dismissal. Our West Covina vehicle code violation defense attorneys filed a motion compelling discovery and motion for a dismissal. The police officer responded with a late and tardy response that left much to be desired both substantively and procedurally. We argued for a dismissal West Covina court threw out the citation and case was dismissed.

Our client, a young man with career ambitions, was charged with having been in possession of codeine in violation of California Health and Safety Code 11350(a). Our West Covina drug possession defense attorneys intervened early, argued that the allegation did not square with the facts and the charge was dismissed. A chemical test refusal annexed to a Vehicle Code 23152(f) charged was ALSO dismissed. No jail time, either.

A family member of a young man who was arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm in his vehicle visited our office, desperate for help. Despite the fact that it was a weekend, our West Covina gun charges defense attorneys sprung into action, visiting him in a bright early Sunday morning (when many other attorneys are out golfing or idling about). We engaged the court process with the intention of getting the charges dismissed, and we did! The young man, who was in custody and terrified not knowing what the outcome would be, is now reunited with his family.

Our attorneys were successful in securing diversion for a client facing charges for being drunk in public. He will only have to perform a minimal amount of community labor, and will be granted a dismissal upon completion of this reduced punishment.

A nearly 10-year-old conviction for an isolated alcohol-related driving offense had the potential of derailing a young professional’s ability to climb the ladder at work. But, due to the diligent efforts of Coimbra Law Firm, APC, this gentleman had his conviction successfully expunged at a recent hearing at the El Monte Courthouse. With the expungement, the young man can now seek international travel opportunities for work (some countries ban admission to anyone with an alcohol-related criminal offense), drive company cars without the fear of creating a liability for his boss, and continue to grow in his career without the stress and worry over how a long-ago misdemeanor crime could affect his future. At Coimbra Law Firm, APC, a successful outcome means a successful second chance at life.

Our client, a young woman from San Jose, came to our office after learning that the San Jose Police Department had gotten the Santa Clara Superior Court to issue a felony arrest warrant in the amount of $25,000. Our client was suspected of having committed felony domestic battery, a violation of California Penal Code Section 273.5. Our San Jose domestic violence defense attorneys sprung into action, first visiting the courthouse and then accompanying our client to the Santa Clara Sheriff's Department. There, in our attempt to do everything possible for our client not to go into custody (but, by the same token) address the outstanding warrant, our Santa Clara criminal defense attorney was able to secure a bail bondsman to show up. Our client's father paid a mere 7% (as opposed to the usual 10% premium). After having her information collected and going through the booking process, our client was released without incident and was able to go home without ever having to be arrested.

Our client, a resident of Santa Clara County, had previously been convicted (through prior counsel) of felony possession of child pornography, a violation of California Penal Code section 311.11(a). He felt great regret and expressed contrition for what had happened, had accepted the repercussions but wanted to move past his conviction, especially since he was battling cancer. After successfully petitioning to have his felony conviction reduced to a misdemeanor, our San Jose sex offender tier level reduction attorneys contacted the California Department of justice, providing a copy of the granted penal code 17(b) reduction misdemeanor of our clients child pornography conviction. We argued that his tier level designation (which was level 3 at the time he came to us) should be reduced to a tier level 1. Not only did the California Department of Justice reissue his tier assignment (new Tier Level 1), but also removed him from the Megan’s Law website pursuant to Penal Code 290.46(b)(2), which lists a felony 311. 11 (a) conviction as an offense for which the offender must appear on the Megan’s Law website. However, a misdemeanor version of that same crime is not listed as a conviction for which an offender must appear on that website. Now that he is off of Megan‘s law website and he is in Tier 1, and since he has met his mandatory minimum registration period per Penal Code section 290.5, our Santa Clara county sex offender registration termination attorneys have petitioned him to be removed from the sex offender registry altogether. Our client is thrilled at the victories we have achieved for him thus far.

Our client, a PC 290 Registrant, came to us for help to remove his name, age, arrests and other information from a website, LocalAreaCrimeNews dot com, because the publication of this embarrassing information was having a deleterious impact on his ability to find work, especially given that even a cursory search yielded his information. Among various other websites that complied with our cease and desist efforts, LocalAreaCrimeNews swiftly removed our client’s information. He is very grateful for our successful endeavor.

A young woman (nursing student) came to our office after having been arrested for Petty Theft (Shoplifting) under California Penal Code Section 484(a) and California Penal acode Section 488 PC. Our Rancho Cucamonga Courthouse petty theft defense attorneys swung into action, immediately intervening in advance of any criminal filing. Sure enough, the case was not charged and our client avoided jailtime and a conviction that could’ve resulted in her inability to practice her chosen vocation.

Client, a finance professional, was accused of shoplifting from Nordstrom Rack West Covina. Due to a combination of aggressive legal representation and negotiating skill, our West Covina petty theft charges defense attorneys achieved a total dismissal of misdemeanor petty theft charge, which carried the significant possibility of jail time. Client did not do one day in jail and he went back to his normal life.

Client, a productive and gainfully employed woman, was accused of shoplifting from the Westfield mall in West Covina. Due to a combination of aggressive legal representation and negotiating skill, our West Covina petty theft charges defense attorneys achieved a total dismissal of misdemeanor petty theft charge in favor of "diversion", which included Community service through "Tree Farm". Our client was spared even a single day in jail and she returned back to work without incident.

Our client, C.G., was accused of sexual misconduct by a family member. We filed a flurry of legal motions and actively engaged in the negotiating process with the prosecutor. Through the discovery process, we found out that accuser had falsely accused her own mother of having hit her, thereby damaging her credibility and putting the integrity of her accusation against our client into question. Our client initially faced potential life in prison. The vast majority of the charges were dropped with only one remaining. C.G. given comparatively negligible custody commitment.

Client J.G. accused of having had sex with a minor. Case was charged as lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor even though it should have been charged as statutory rape. Our office aggressively engaged in the negotiation process. Maximum exposure in for J.G. would have been 64 years in state prison. He will be out in less than five.

Client, C. R., was represented by the public defender and sustained a conviction for violation of the California Penal Code. The court erroneously imposed penal code 290 lifetime sex offender registration. His probation officer was about to violate him for failure to register as a sex offender. Our sex crimes defense attorneys quickly mobilized and obtained a "nunc pro tunc" order showing that lifetime sex offender registration order was in error. Before probation could violate our client, we submitted this order with probation office. C.R. never had to register as a sex offender due to our swift and skilled action.

Police apprehended our client for doing 90 mph in a 45 mile an hour zone. Our client is a man who frequently takes his father to his doctor on account of advanced chronic illnesses such as diabetes, kidney dysfunction, etc. Thus, losing his license or picking up a point on his driving record would have devastated his ability to continue driving his father to these vital appointments. Our West Covina speeding ticket defense attorneys sprung into action. The citing police officer attended the traffic trial. Our traffic ticket defense attorneys prevailed on the citation and our client’s case was dismissed outright. No fines. No point on driving record. No jail. No anything. Case dismissed.

Before becoming our client, a middle-aged resident of Stanislaus County and registered sex offender had previously been convicted of a registrable offense in the early 1980s.

Since then, due to his convicted registered sex offender status, his life became a living hell, as various obstacles surfaced and snowballed into worse problems still. He had problems finding housing, maintaining friendships and (after Megan’s Law was enacted and his sex offender profile were posted online as a result), was subjected to numerous angry, menacing encounters by people who despised him for his registered sex offender status (and accused him of being a “pedophile” and a “child molester.”) To compound the misery, a malignant tumor he thought had been successfully extirpated relapsed, i.e., resurfaced. This unfortunate cancerous recurrence impacted his spine, rendering him a paraplegic. He was no longer able to walk nor perambulate without the use of an electric wheelchair. Just win this “avalanche“ of severe existential problems seemed too much to bear, one day, he came across our information and proceeded to contact us. Witnessing the patently-obvious talent, high quality of our lawyers and their encyclopedic knowledge of the law, he retained our services. Our Stanislaus county sex offender registration termination petition attorneys worked with our client to gather documents that would support his merit-worthiness under the “critical factors“ laid out in sure enough, we predicted correctly: Penal Code section 290.5(a)(3), which would come in very handy in the event of a prosecutorial objection to his petition. Just one hour client thought getting off the registry would be a journey on a “primrose path“, the prosecutor made it known to us that she was considering formalizing her objection to the petition UNLESS we could provide certain documentation to help convince her that our client was worthy of a withdrawal of said objection. Our attorneys drafted a “behemoth” memorandum of points and authorities (with a beautifully-organized “stockpile” of supporting documents referenced in our motion) in the event the prosecution would ultimately persist in their objection even with satisfactory documents. Without having to seek any continuance of the hearing, since our lawyers had preemptively and proactively gathered the vast majority of supporting forums documents in advance of filing the petition (in anticipation of a prosecutorial objection),

Despite our providing the prosecution with the requested documentation, there was no definitive decision communicated to us about the DA withdrawing or moving forward with their objection as of the eve before the morning hearing on the petition. Needless to say, this created some apprehension for our client who, having been used to bad news of various types throughout his “post-sex crime conviction“ life, was growing despondent that he might lose his petition. Fortunately, our client had little reason to feel any consternation. Satisfied that our Stanislaus courthouse PC 290 registration termination attorneys had provided substantive evidence of our client’s rehabilitation, the prosecutor unambiguously withdrew their objection and the Honorable Judge GRANTED our client’s petition. When we communicate the news to our client, he was virtually speechless and at a loss for words at what seemed a surreal conclusion to his case. Feeling great relief and overcome with emotion, our client was moved to tears and profusely expressed his abundant gratitude to us.

Liberated from the shackles of the dehumanizing, degrading and debasing stigma associated with his the sex offender “label,” our client is now “sailing into the sunset,” ready to begin the next chapter of his life as a Registry-free man.

Client had to show proof at the Pasadena courthouse of enrollment in the 52-week parenting class, as well as community service. Client neglected to bring physical proof of parenting class enrollment; our Pasadena progress report attorney was resourceful enough to bring a digital copy. The court, although it would have been empowered to issue a bench warrant for failure to show proof, did not issue a bench warrant, again, on account of the resourcefulness of our attorney. Moreover, our attorney argued that the protective order against the victim should be lifted because no violence had been involved. Although the court deferred a ruling until a date in the near future when client had showed more progress, the "window" had been opened for the protective order to be modified or terminated in the near future.

Federal probation officer imposed oppressive and unreasonable geographic restrictions on our client, J.H., which prevented him from visiting his family in San Diego County. Our federal sex crimes attorneys aggressively pursued modification of probation conditions so that he would not be subject to these far-reaching conditions. We won. Our client can now freely visit with his family.

Our client, an elderly gentleman, was previously convicted of violating California Penal Code section 311.11(a) also commonly known as knowing possession or control of sexual material involving minors. This crime is listed as a Tier 3 offense when the conviction is a felony. Accordingly, he was despondent that his original tier level designation letter had him as tier 3, i.e., lifetime registration unable to petition off the registry through the Tier Registry Law, which took effect in the courts July 1, 2021. Our California sex offender registration termination attorneys went to work, successfully motioning the court to reduce our client’s 311.11(a) felony conviction to a misdemeanor. After achieving this successful result, our attorneys contacted the California Department of Justice requesting a revised Tier Level Designation Letter. Sure enough, our client went back to his annual registration office and collected his Tier 1 Level Designation letter re-issued by the DOJ. Given that he now meets all the criteria to petition for removal from the sex offender registry, our sex offender registration termination lawyers are hard at work assembling the necessary forms and paperwork to submit to the court to pursue a termination of our client’s sex offender obligation. Our client is tremendously happy with this early milestone in his case.

Our client was charged with speeding, a violation of California vehicle code section 22352. Considering the importance of our client’s driving privilege not only to his personal life but also to his ability to work and maintain his livelihood, our client was justifiably alarmed at the prospect of a conviction. Our West Covina traffic trial by declaration attorneys put together a powerful and persuasive argument for a dismissal of our client’s case. The court ruled in our favor and acquitted our client. Not only that but he will be receiving back his bail money. Case dismissed!

Our client came to our office distraught that her ex had run off with their four children to another state. Her ex exploited our client's unfortunate but former substance abuse problems. Our child custody rights attorneys vociferously argued that those were mistakes of our client's past and she had made leaps and strides towards sobriety. We demonstrated that it would be in our client's children’s best interest to be with their mother who loves and cares for them. Despite the odds against our client, our child custody rights lawyers prevailed and the judge awarded full custody to our client.

The judge ordered/stated:

1. Petitioner was awarded sole legal custody of the minor children;

2. Father's move with the children to Nevada was authorized;

3. Mother to have weekend visitation in Nevada with the minor children twice per month, and must give 72 hours notice to Father. (Mother may have more visitation with the agreement of Father);

4. Mother to have custody of the children in California for 1 week of the winter break, 1 week of spring break, and 3 weeks of the summer break from school;

5. Father must initiate 2 telephone calls to Mother each week for the minor children. One telephone call shall be on Tuesday and one on Thursday. Mother to give Father phone number where she can be contacted;

6. Each party is restrained from making derogatory remarks about the other party, either directly or indirectly to the minor children nor allow any third party to do so.

7. Mother shall not be under the influence of alcohol, or other substance which substantially impairs her ability to care for the children, 12 hours prior to visitation, and at any time she is responsible for the health and safety of
the children.

8. Counsel for Respondent is to prepare the written Order After Hearing, serve it on the opposition for approval as to form and content, and then submit to Court for signature.

Our client was in custody for alleged driving under the influence of alcohol in violation of California vehicle code section 23152a, as well as "injury to a person" enhancement. Our El Monte DUI defense attorney reviewed for OR release or, in the alternative, a reduction of our clients bail, which was in the six figures originally. Client was able to make bail. He is now back with his family. And our office continues to effectively challenge the charges and we anticipate a positive resolution.

Our client, whose case the public defender had represented and had resulted in sex offender registry, retained our services to challenge a potentially new conviction. Police had conducted a "halloween sweep" of registered sex offenders in the area and minor relatives arrived and were present at his home without his knowledge. Client was held in custody. Our registered sex offender defense attorneys swooped in, argued for his release and the new accusation was dismissed. He could have spent additional years in the state prison. Instead, he is now home with his wife.

Our client, T.K., was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and driving with a .08 percent BAC or higher. Client is a professional with much to lose. On account of the unusually high blood alcohol concentration, prosecutor wanted extended alcohol program and also jail time. Due to our high level of drunk driving defense legal skill, we persuaded prosecutor to drop the charge of driving under the influence of alcohol and to drop jail time as part of the resolution of the case.