Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon – NOT GUILTY OF ALL CHARGES

Client was standing with a group of males on Addison in Chicago. An individual in that group pulled out a handgun. A witness called 911 to say that she saw that goup of individuals with a handgun. When the Chicago Police arrived, my client took off running down an alley way. He ran into the beer garden of Goose Island brewery and hid the gun he had on him in a flower pot. The police officers stopped my client when he ran out of the beer garden. They found the gun in the flower pot. After they found the gun, the police officers obtained surveillance video that the brewery had of the beer garden. It clearly showed my client taking a gun out of his waist band and hiding the weapon in the flower pot! They obtained a copy of the video surveillance and charged my client with 5 counts of Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon. The prosecutor was not willing to reduce the charges and since this crime required mandatory prison time, we went to trial. The State of Illinois presented two (2) Chicago police officers, a manager of Goose Island and submitted the video recording of my client with the weapon. During my cross-examination, I made both officers contradict their own reports and their own statements! I got one officer to admit that she could not even identify my client! Needless to say, after my cross was complete, the judge found my client NOT GUILTY OF ALL CHARGES! We win when others say its impossible!