Mob Action, Resisting Arrest and Criminal Damage to State Supported Property- NOT GUILTY OF ALL CHARGES

My client was driving a vehicle with numerous individuals. A fight in the vehicle ensued and my client started punching the passenger. My client stopped the vehicle and continued to batter the front seat passenger. A lady was watching from inside her house and called the police to report a battery in progress withing the vehicle. The Niles Police Department arrived and my client jumped out the vehicle and ran from the police because he had an outstanding warrant for his arrest from another criminal case. Eventually my client was arrested a few blocks away from the scene. He refused to be placed into the squad car. When several officers eventually got the Defendant in the vehicle, he started kicking the door and busted it. My client had an extensive criminal background so the prosecutor was seeking incarceration. We went to trial. At trial, I argued that the charging complaint was defective because it wasn’t specific enough when describing what charges were against my client. I argued to the judge that the complaint was too general and did not give me enough notice of the actual charges he was facing. The judge agreed. The judge found my client not guilty of all charges.