Kentucky Criminal Law Attorney William M. Butler
Louisville criminal defense attorney William M. Butler has effectively obtained case dismissals, charge reductions and other favorable results on behalf of clients charged with serious criminal offenses in Kentucky. View some of the firm's results below:
- Client charged with importing over 200 pounds of Khat into Kentucky; the largest seizure of this exotic drug in the history of the state. Result: Probation with out-of-state supervision.
- Client charged with trafficking in cocaine and being a persistent felony offender. Result: acquitted at trial level based on defense that car in which cocaine was found was borrowed to go Christmas shopping.
- Client charged with trafficking in multiple kilos of cocaine. Result: case was dismissed after pretrial motion to dismiss illegal stop of automobile was sustained by the Court.
- Client was a nurse charged with trafficking in prescription pad blanks. Result: After multiple hearings on pretrial motions, on the trial day the Commonwealth announces it cannot go forward while the defense announces it is ready for trial. The Court granted the defendant's motion to dismiss.
- Physician client charged with prescription drug fraud. Result: the Commonwealth amended the felony charge to a misdemeanor after the physician enters a drug rehabilitation facility. License to practice medicine is not suspended.
- Client charged with three counts of trafficking in cocaine after informant gave a sworn statement, audio and video tape. Result: acquittal on two counts, hung jury on third count based on defense's cross examination of snitch and implication that snitch was trying to cover-up his own drug dealing.
- Client charged with trafficking in methamphetamine. Result: the charge was amended to possession and client pled guilty; placed in the pretrial diversion program based on her age, lack of previous record and guilt of boyfriend. After diversion completed, guilty plea will be set aside and case will be dismissed.
- Client charged with possession of cocaine. Result: the charge was dismissed after the Court sustained defense's motion to suppress the evidence on grounds that the search exceeded the bounds of the search warrant.
- Client charged with two counts of indecent exposure second degree. After numerous court appearances, on the eve of trial the case resolved with client placed in diversionary program where case will be set aside, dismissed and expunged after two years.
- Client charged with sexually molesting several foster children in his care. Result: sentenced to probation based on extensive pretrial counseling and rehabilitation.
- Client charged with sexual assault. Result: State decided to drop prosecution after it was provided several medical journal articles by the defense which offered an alternative explanation for Prosecuting Witness injuries.
ASSAULT CHARGES
- Client charged with assaulting his 10 year old daughter. Result: acquitted at trial based on defense that child made up story which was embellished with help of her mother, the client's ex-wife.
- Client charged with assaulting his former wife outside a mall. Result: acquittal at trial based on defense of ex-wife being vindictive and lying.
- Client charged with assaulting an off duty police officer at a Mike Tyson fight. Result: acquitted based on defense that the officer misidentified the client as the person who assaulted him.
- Client charged with federal firearms violation. Result: plea bargain reached in which the defendant was sentenced to six months home detention followed by probation.
- Client charged with embezzling several thousand dollars from his employer. Result: After the defendant provided documentation of background, the Commonwealth agreed to defendant's admission into a diversion program. After completion of the diversion program and restitution made, case was dismissed and expunged.
- Client charged in federal court with embezzlement from bank branch of which he was the manager. Result: plea bargain negotiated which resulted in a six month sentence in a halfway house and restitution.
- Client indicted for theft from check cashing business when forged check cashed using false identity. Result: State moved to dismiss charges after pretrial investigation by defense caused additional evidence to be provided by check cashing business showing client innocent.
FORGERY CHARGES
- Johnson v. Commonwealth, 231 S.W.3d 800 (KY 2007)
Client appealed conviction in the Oldham Circuit Court on three counts of second-degree forgery. Result: having concluded that the trial court erred by excluding relevant evidence, the decision was reversed and remanded for a new trial.
- Client was charged with Robbery I after two people were robbed at gunpoint at a local street festival. Both individuals positively identified the defendant at trial. Result: defense of mistaken identify resulted in a hung jury after which the Commonwealth amended the Robbery I charge, a felony which carried a minimum 10 year jail sentence to a misdemeanor and received a probated 12 month sentence.
VANDALISM CHARGES
- Client charged with vandalizing a cemetery and doing thousands of dollars worth of damage. Client confessed to police officers after being arrested and interrogated at the police station. Result: acquitted at trial after the police officer was cross examined on interrogation techniques and the defendant testified about his fear and nervousness when being interrogated.
MURDER CHARGE
- Client charged with murder. Result: At trial level, the court granted mistrial motion based on defendant's objection to the prosecution's final witness. The Commonwealth amended the charge to wanton endangerment and recommended a one year sentence.
WANTON ENDANGERMENT CHARGES
- Client was charged with multiple counts of wanton endangerment, evading the police and being a persistent felony offender. The Commonwealth's offer was 10 years to serve. Two police officers positively identified client at trial. Result: First trial ended in hung jury 11-1 and second trial ended in hung jury 7-5. The Commonwealth then amended the charge and client accepted a plea to reckless driving with a $100.00 fine.
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE CHARGES
- Client charged with driving under the influence second offense. Result: acquittal based on defense that defendant did not tell police officer he had been drinking beer (client drinks only bourbon).
- Client charged with driving under the influence (DUI) after incident in which mini-motorhome damages a McDonalds drive thru sign. Result: case was amended to disorderly conduct thus protecting client's driver's license from the one year suspension given to DUI convictions in his home State. The prosecutor agreed to the amendment offer after defense argument on admissibility of defendant's breath test.
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Attorney William M. Butler represents clients throughout the Louisville, Kentucky, metro area including the cities of Lexington, Bowling Green, Paducah, Hopkinsville, Madisonville, Frankfort, Ashland, London, Richmond, Covington, Newport, Elizabethtown, Pikeville, Danville, Owensboro and Georgetown.
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