Class 3 felony offense of forgery is dismissed without a trial. Download the court records
Lake County forgery lawyer Lewis Gainor defended a woman charged with a Class 3 felony of forgery and was able to get the charge dismissed without a trial.
The woman was a resident of Chicago and was accused of participating in a fraudulent check scheme in Antioch, Illinois, in 2007. She was 21 years-old and had a future career to protect. The Class 3 felony charge carried a penalty of anywhere from 2 to 5 years prison, and would ruin any chances at a successful professional career for her.
The Antioch Police Department had investigated the check scheme over the course of several months. The police brought their evidence to the Lake County State’s Attorney to review. The prosecutor’s office decided that there was enough evidence to proceed with a prosecution. They indicted the woman and the court set bond in the amount of $25,000.
Waukegan forgery lawyer Lewis Gainor defended the woman in court and demanded a jury trial, so that the State would have to prove the charge beyond a reasonable doubt. He knew that the State’s evidence would not stand up to testing at trial.
On September 24, 2007, he appeared with the woman in court. As expected, the State could not prove the charge, and dismissed the case against her.
We have experience and a record of success in defending clients who were arrested for misdemeanor and felony charges involving money (US currency) and property: theft, retail theft, deceptive practices (writing bad checks or checks on accounts that are overdrawn / insufficient funds), forgery (signing someone else's name), fraud, aggravated identity theft, fraud against a financial institution, unlawful use of a credit or debit card, etc. Call Gainor & Gosch, PC, the leading criminal defense law firm in Waukegan, serving all of Lake County, Illinois. We also accept cases from northern Cook County, namely Rolling Meadows and Skokie courthouses.
