RAY BENDIG

Case Victories

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NOVEMBER 2013.
Delivery of a Controlled Substance and Possession with Intent to Sell. Police officers testified that they watched the defendant sell drugs to a woman out of the driver’s window of his car. Officers arrested both, searched the car, and found more drugs on the car seat. Finding of Not-Guilty on a bench trial.

OCTOBER 2013.
Domestic Battery. A young lady accused her live-in boyfriend of throwing the entry-door to their apartment open at her during a physical argument thereby striking her with the door and breaking her toe. Finding of Not-Guilty on trial.

JULY 2013.
Possession of a Controlled Substance (drugs). An officer sees several young men near a parked car. The defendant leaves them and walks into the house. His father exits the house. Officers question him. The defendant exits the house and is detained. Officers open the rear door and walk in the residence. The officers obtain a written Consent to Search from the father, who had followed them into his house. Officers search the residence and find narcotics in the defendant’s room in the attic. Motion to Quash the Search sustained on full court hearing on the basis of the warrantless, non-consensual entry of the home thereby violating the defendant’s Sixth Amendment Rights. The drugs were excluded from evidence. Case dismissed.

JULY 2013.
Woman accused of Domestic Battery, Theft, and Assault against her boyfriend and his new girlfriend. They both testified against the defendant. Finding of Not-Guilty on trial.

JUNE 2013.
Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault. Young lady accused her downstairs neighbor of sexual assault in her apartment. Evidence showed that he had visited her on previous occasions through her unlocked rear door. Found guilty of reduced charge of Simple (misdemeanor) Battery on.

MAY 2013.
Aggravated Unlawful Use (possession) of a Weapon (gun). Officers answer a call of “shots fired” outside the residence. Upon arrival officers observe shadowy figures quickly enter the residence from the backyard. Officers open the rear door and walk in the residence. They walk past the defendant’s wife who was standing at the door. The officers later obtain a written Consent to Search from her, search the residence, and find a gun in a first floor closet. The defendant is found in the basement. Motion to Quash the Search sustained on full court hearing on the basis of the warrantless, non-consensual entry of the home thereby violating the defendant’s Sixth Amendment Rights. The gun was excluded from evidence. Case dismissed.

MARCH 2013.
Possession of a Controlled Substance (drugs). Officers stop a vehicle. The defendant is driving. The vehicle contains a front and a rear seat passenger. Drugs are found between the driver’s seat and the center console. Finding of Not-Guilty on trial.

DECEMBER 2012.
Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon. Finding of Not-Guilty on a bench trial. The pistol was allegedly found in a vehicle occupied by the defendant and two others.

DECEMBER 2012.
Possession of a Controlled Substance (drugs) and Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon. Officers are searching the occupants of a parked SUV when they see a man in the gangway of the residence. The man disappears into the rear yard. Officers kick-in the back door and search the residence. At some point the officers obtain a written consent to search the residence from the defendant’s girlfriend. A pistol and drugs are found. Motion to Quash the Search sustained on full court hearing on the basis of the warrantless, non-consensual entry of the home thereby violating the defendant’s Sixth Amendment Rights. The pistol and drugs are excluded from evidence. Case dismissed.

JULY 2012.
Battery during a drunken fight. Finding of Not Guilty.

JUNE 2012.
Driving with a Revoked Driver’s License. Finding of Not Guilty.

APRIL 2012.
Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon. The defendant allegedly threw a pistol as he walked into an alley. Two witnesses testified for the defendant. Motion to Quash Arrest sustained on full court hearing. The pistol was excluded from evidence. Case dismissed.

MARCH 2012.
Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon. Finding of Not Guilty.

MARCH 2012.
Attempted Murder With a Firearm. Two men testified that the defendant shot one and shot at the other from a van. The defendant was stopped a few minutes later a few blocks away in a speeding van with the gun and a few friends. Finding of Not-Guilty.

JANUARY 2013.
Aggravated Domestic Battery. The defendant was accused of stabbing her husband in the chest collapsing his lung. Evidence at trial showed that the drunken husband tried to force sexual intercourse upon the pregnant defendant.

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