Mr. Beach’s client was accused of two counts of Criminal Mistreatment. Each of these charges carries a possible five years of prison; so, Mr. Beach’s client was facing a total worst-case scenario of ten years of prison if convicted of both counts. The case came from his 15-year-old daughter claiming that Mr. Beach’s client had hit her in the head with a wrench. At trial, Mr. Beach filled in the full set of facts for the jury. This included that the 15-year-old made this claim right after Mr. Beach’s client took away her phone once he found out that she had been exchanging ‘romantic’ messages with her 19-year-old boyfriend. Amongst those messages included a desire to leave the family home to move in with that 19-year-old. Additionally, Mr. Beach brought in medical testimony regarding how being hit with a wrench the way the 15-year-old claimed was inconsistent with the injuries s found on the 15-year-old (she didn’t even have a mark). Finally, there was another person in the home when this incident supposedly happened who testified that no such thing happened. Upon hearing the whole story, the jury returned the verdict of Not Guilty.