Congratulations to Joe Metcalf on Another Jury Trial Win – this one had many charges!

Mr. Metcalf’s client was accused of four counts of Burglary 1, Unlawful Use of a Motor Vehicle, Multiple Commercial Drug Offenses for both Fentanyl and Methamphetamine, Theft of Services, and More.  Essentially, if convicted of everything, Mr. Metcalf’s client was looking at a lot of prison time.  At trial, it was established that Mr. Metcalf’s client had been living in a dead man’s house and driving that dead man’s car.  Also, the neighbors accused him of various criminal shenanigans; and when arrested, the police found what appeared to be drugs in the house.  At the start of the trial, Mr. Metchalf knocked out all the drug charges because the prosecutor had failed to bring the correct witness to establish that the stuff found in the house were in fact drugs.  Then, Mr. Metcalf proved that his client was actually renting space in the house to sleep from the actual squatter in the dead man’s house.  For every allegation, Mr. Metcalf systematically dismantled the prosecutor’s theory that Mr. Metcalf’s client was behind it all.  At the end, the Jury returned the verdict of Not Guilty!