Case Results

Charges: FELONY SEXUAL ASSAULT, INSTITUTIONAL SEXUAL ASSAULT
STATE: PENNSYLVANIA
Outcome: JURY ACQUITTAL on Institutional Sexual Assault Charges
Summary: Commonwealth claimed our client, a correctional officer had seduced and molested a female inmate at detention facility and had sexual relations with the inmate on multiple occasions at the detention facility. The Ciccarelli Law Offices Legal Defense Team was successful at the preliminary hearing to cross examine the victim and put some doubt into her testimony, but still allow the matter to proceed to trial. At trial, our team was successful on cross examination by putting into question the feasibility of the victim’s story, which ultimately resulted in the victim refusing to answer any further questions.
Result: ACQUITTAL

Charges: Rape, Involuntary Deviant Sexual Intercourse
STATE: PENNSYLVANIA
Outcome: JURY ACQUITTAL on RAPE & INVOLUNTARY DEVIANT SEXUAL INTERCOURSE

Summary: Commonwealth claimed our client sexually assaulted his infant grandchild. At trial the Ciccarelli Legal Team presented a strong defense, establishing that there was no physical evidence of abuse and that a family member who brought the charges admitted that they did not see any unlawful contact but improperly coached the victim to say there was inappropriate contact.
Result: ACQUITTAL

Charges: CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, ABUSE OF CHILD
State: PENNSYLVANIA
Outcome: Successful Defense in Child Pornography Allegations
Summary: Client retained our services on an investigative basis before the filing of charges. Client was notified that police appeared at his shared apartment with search warrant seeking computers that might contact illegal digital images. Rather than subject to himself to police interrogation, our office was retained and was successful in preventing the filing of the charges. We were also successful in convincing the police that they could not signal out our client as knowingly possessing or distributing the illegal content or rule out the possibility that a third party had access to his computer.
Result: NO CHARGES

Charges: Involuntary Deviant Sexual Intercourse, Corruption of Minors and related charges
State: PENNSYLVANIA
Outcome: CASE DISMISSED After Filing of Habeas Motion
Summary: Client accused of involuntary deviant sexual intercourse and corruption of minors. The Ciccarelli Legal Team was successful in obtaining a Dismissal of All Charges at the Trial Level after the Filing and Hearing of a Habeas Motion.
Result: DISMISSAL

Charges: RAPE, FORCIBLE COMPULSION
State: PENNSYLVANIA
Outcome: Successful REDUCTION IN CHARGES

Summary: Client was facing prosecution for Rape, Rape Forcible Compulsion, Aggravated Sexual Assault, and Sexual Assault and Commonwealth was seeking state jail sentence. Our legal team was successful in contesting the charges and negotiating a dismissal of the forcible compulsion charge and an agreement to lesser charges and a lesser period of punishment.
Result: CHARGES REDUCED

Charges: Involuntary Deviant Sexual Intercourse (Rape)
State: PENNSYLVANIA
Outcome: Successful REDUCTION IN CHARGES

Summary: Our client, who was 18, was in a relationship with a younger girl and Commonwealth sought to convict him on rape charges. Despite overwhelming evidence in support of their initial charges, we were able to negotiate a dismissal of the more serious charges in exchange for a plea on lesser charges.
Result: CHARGES REDUCED