Congratulations to Toni Gonzalez on a Menacing Trial Win!

Ms. Gonzalez’s client was accused of Menacing. This carries up to 364 days of jail. This is the charge for threatening to hurt someone. At trial, the government proved that during an argument Ms. Gonzalez’s client raised his fist in a threatening way. But Ms. Gonzalez argued that such an action does not (when done alone) mean that one is going to injure the other (which is required for it to be this crime). At the end of the prosecutor’s evidence, Ms. Gonzalez made a motion to dismiss the case, and the judge granted the motion dismissing the case against her client.