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Rhodes & Meryhew, LLP

Criminal Defense Lawyers — Seattle, Washington

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SEX OFFENSES

• Charge: Rape of a Child First Degree
  Court: Clallam County Superior Court, Port Angeles—2008
  Result: Our client had been convicted of these charges after a trial with a different attorney and sentenced to prison. His appeal was successful after being in prison for a year and a half. After our client’s testimony and the cross examination of his daughter it took the jury just 30 minutes to find him not guilty.

• Charge: Child Molestation First Degree
  Court: Pierce County Superior Court, Tacoma—2008
  Result: The jury hung eight to four in favor of not guilty. Our client was accused of sexually assaulting a young relative many years earlier.

• Charge: Rape Second Degree-Domestic Violence with a Deadly Weapon, Assault
  Second Degree-Domestic Violence with a Deadly Weapon and Felony Harassment-Domestic Violence with a Deadly Weapon.
  Court: King County Superior Court, Kent--2008
  Result: The jury found our client not guilty of all of the charges except one lesser charge where they hung eleven to one in favor of not guilty. The State dismissed that charge. Because of prior history our client would have received life in prison for a conviction on any of these charges.

• Charge: Child Molestation Third Degree
  Court: King County Superior Court, Kent
  Result: Client was found not guilty at third trial after two mistrials due to prosecutorial misconduct and client’s health emergency. Client was accused of inappropriate touch of co-worker at an adult family home.
  

• Charge: Rape of a Child Second Degree
  Court: King County Superior Court, Kent
  Result: Jury found client not guilty. Our client was accused of sexually assaulting his stepdaughter after he had disciplined her.

• Charge: Rape Second Degree
  Court: King County Superior Court, Kent
  Result: Our client was found not guilty. He had been accused of sexually assaulting a co-worker after a long night of drinking. Our client testified that the encounter was consensual.

• Charge: Failure to Register as a Sex Offender
  Court: Kitsap County Superior Court, Port Orchard
  King County Superior Court, Seattle
  Result: Our client was accused of failing to register for a juvenile sex offense. We were able to get the underlying requirement that he register lifted in King County Superior Court and then Kitsap County agreed to dismiss the felony Failure to Register.

• Charge: Rape of a Child First Degree
  Court: King County Superior Court, Seattle
  Result: The jury found our client not guilty of the charges. Our client had been accused of sexually assaulting a young girl while spending the night at her mother’s home. This report was made after attempts to extort money from our client.

• Charge: Rape of a Child First Degree
  Court: King County Superior Court, Kent
  Result: This case was dismissed by the State after the defense interviews of the State’s witnesses in Wyoming. Our client got visitation and eventually full custody of his children.

• Charge: Child Molestation First Degree
  Court: Kitsap County Superior Court, Port Orchard
  Result: This case was dismissed after the defense interviews of the State’s witnesses in Idaho. Our client was accused of molesting his girlfriend’s son.
  

• Charge: Rape in the Second Degree
  Court: King County Superior Court, Seattle
  Result: Our client was found not guilty by a jury in forty five minutes. Client was accused based on DNA collected many years ago. Our client testified that the sexual contact was consensual.

• Charge: Child Molestation First Degree, Rape of a Child First Degree
  Court: Kitsap County Superior Court, Port Orchard
  Result: Charges were dismissed on the grounds the client was incompetent to stand trial. Our client had been diagnosed with Huntington’s Disease. After two years of extensive expert consultation, several competency evaluations, and litigation, the State finally agreed our client was incompetent and dismissed the charges.

• Charge: Child Molestation First Degree, Rape of a Child First Degree
  Court: King County Superior Court, Kent
  Result: Our client had been convicted of molesting a young relative over several years while our client was still a juvenile. We were able to get the client the Special Sex Offender Sentencing Alternative (SSOSA), to be completed in Utah so that he could live with his mother and have family support. We assisted our client in obtaining an Interstate Transfer of his supervision through the Department of Corrections.

• Charge: Rape of a Child First Degree
  Court: King County Superior Court, Seattle
  Result: Charge dismissed against female client. Conducted lengthy investigation that revealed that the complaining witness had mental health issues which impacted his credibility.

• Charge: Rape of a Child First Degree
  Court: King County Superior Court, Seattle
  Result: Charges dismissed. Client was Ethiopian refugee who had been granted asylum status to live in the United States.

• Charge: Client facing civil commitment as sexually violent predator
  Court: Pierce County Superior Court, Tacoma
  Result: Hung jury. After a year of expert consultation in the area of sex offender treatment and recidivism, we presented a compelling case that client was at low risk to reoffend.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OFFENSES

• Charge: Assault Fourth Degree – Domestic Violence
  Court: Issaquah Municipal Court; Marysville Municipal Court; Tacoma Municipal Court; Everett Municipal Court; King County District Court in Seattle, Kent, Burien, Redmond, Issaquah, Bellevue and Shoreline; Kitsap County District Court; Pierce County District Court; Snohomish County District Court in Lynnwood, Monroe, Everett and Marysville; Seattle Municipal Court; Lynwood Municipal Court; Sumner Municipal Court; Puyallup Municipal Court; Renton Municipal Court; City of Burien Municipal Court; Kent Municipal Court; Seatac Municipal Court; Woodinville Municipal Court; Kirkland Municipal Court; Mercer Island Municipal Court; Bonney Lake Municipal Court; Buckley Municipal Court; and Black Diamond Municipal Court.
  Result: We have obtained dismissals for clients in all of the above listed courts.
  

• Charge: Felony Violation of a Court Order-DV
  Court: King County Superior Court, Kent
  Result: Our client was facing 60 months in prison for a number of court order violations when we presented an extensive mitigation package to State. Based on their understanding of the client and his history the State agreed to recommend, and the client received, an exceptional sentence of six months of confinement.

• Charge: Assault Fourth Degree-Domestic Violence
  Court: King County District Court, Seattle
  Result: Our client was found not guilty by a jury after being accused of kicking his soon to be ex wife under the table at a McDonald’s restaurant.

• Charge: Assault Fourth Degree-Domestic Violence
  Court: King County District Court, Redmond
  Result: Our client was found not guilty by a jury after being accused of assault by a girlfriend who had gotten intoxicated and assaulted our client. When he called the police he was arrested.

• Charge: Violation of a Court Order-Domestic Violence
  Court: King County District Court, Redmond
  Result: Our client was found not guilty by a jury. His ex wife had accused him after she approached him in a parking lot and he rolled up his window to avoid her.

• Charge: Assault First Degree-Domestic Violence
  Court: King County Superior Court, Kent
  Result: Our client was found not guilty of the Assault 1. The victim invoked her right to not incriminate herself and refused to answer many questions during cross-examination.

• Charge: Assault Second Degree-Domestic Violence,
  Court: King County Superior Court, Kent
  Result: Our client was found not guilty by a jury. He was accused of threatening his ex girl friend with a gun after she barged into his house uninvited, threatened his new girl friend, and intentionally hit the new girl friend’s car when she was leaving.

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Prior results are no guarantee of future outcome

The results listed above should not create the unjustified expectation that the same result will be obtained in your case. Results vary from case to case, depending on the facts and circumstances of your case. The above listed results are examples of what we have achieved in other cases for other clients. Our intent in listing these results are to give you examples we are proud of because of the hard work and dedication that went into obtaining them.