Acquittal Marks 7th Consecutive Jury Win

A Rock County jury deliberated less than 15 minutes before finding a Chirafisi & Verhoff client not guilty, marking the seventh time in a row the firm has prevailed for our clients at a jury trial. In this situation, our client was originally charged in three separate cases for incidents involving a neighbor. The first case was a damage to property claim that our lawyer, Attorney Tim Verhoff, convinced the prosecution to dismiss before trial due to a lack of evidence. The second case, which went to trial, was a disorderly conduct charge in which the prosecutor alleged that our client harassed his neighbor with a strobe light. At trial, Attorney Verhoff argued that it was actually a misunderstanding involving a security light our client was attempting to install that had malfunctioned. Due to a shoddy police investigation and a lack of communication between our client and his neighbor (who each have injunctions against the other), the neighbor, law enforcement, and the prosecutor wrongly assumed the worst. The highlight came after the jury rendered its verdict in the disorderly conduct matter. The judge asked the prosecutor what he wanted to do about the last case that remained pending, an allegation of a weapon violation. The prosecutor replied that "considering the circumstances," he was simply throwing in the towel and dismissing that case, too. Two dismissals and a not guilty verdict a trial was a complete win for our client.