Case Dismissed
Henderson Law Group represented an Alton, Illinois man charged with Armed Robbery and Armed Criminal Action. From the outset, our defense was based on the alibi that our client was in a different state when the crime occurred. After a year of litigation and just before trial, we were able to obtain a DISMISSAL of all charges. Without a traceable phone to pin point our client’s location, we subpoenaed Facebook records in order to show our client’s location, we subpoenaed Facebook records in order to show our client’s location through recent picture posts. Additionally, we were able to show that our client’s head was shaved weeks before the crime. The attacker was described as having shoulder length dreadlocks, as our client did in a photo used in a lineup. Three of the four witnesses, all white individuals, picked our client, a black male, out of the lineup. Photo lineup identifications, especially cross-racial ones, are not always reliable.