Westchester County Sex Crimes Lawyer

Here are some examples of lives we have saved:

• Our teenage client had spent the last few months working through the stages of grief after the tragic loss of his father when a girl he had been sleeping with regularly accused him of rape. This promising young man lived with his recently widowed mother and was a conscientious student. The false allegation and investigation into an alleged forcible rape could not have come at a worse time for this family, rocking the client and his mom to the core. Westchester Sex Crimes Attorney Richard A. Portale went to work on this tragic case at the very early stages and not only convinced the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office that this malicious young lady was lying but worked tirelessly to have her arrested and charged with the crimes of Offering a False Instrument for Filing and Perjury. Adam Levy, the newly elected Putnam County District Attorney, required the troubled girl to pay restitution to our client’s family for the money they had spent on Attorney’s and Investigator’s fees.

• A longtime client of ours had traveled to the West Coast for business and had no choice but to blow up the cell phone of Westchester Criminal Attorney Richard A. Portale in the middle of the night. The client franticly explained that he was wanted for questioning by Oregon police – he was being accused of raping a young woman he met in the hotel bar after a night of heavy drinking. From across the country, Mr. Portale immediately interceded between the client and the sex crimes detectives, who can sometimes be very jaded and overly aggressive. Mr. Portale used his vast network to locate an investigator that was sympathetic to our client’s cause. Within weeks, Mr. Portale was able to prove to the sex crimes detectives that the maligned accuser was not credible, and our client was cleared of all charges. It cannot be overlooked that these detectives took their jobs very seriously and did things the right way. They took the time to thoroughly examine all the evidence rather than making a knee-jerk arrest –a real throwback to the days of common sense and patience in the investigation stages of sex crimes allegations.

• A New York City man (brother of a Major League Baseball Hall of Famer) and his fiancé were accompanied to their New York City home by a third female for a threesome. This dream turned into a nightmare when the young woman later accused the client of forcible rape. New York Sex Crimes Attorney Richard A. Portale’s working knowledge of forensic DNA testing and procedures allowed the victim of this spurious allegation to maintain his innocence and preserve his integrity and reputation. The Manhattan rape indictment was eventually dismissed. Unfortunately, our client’s heartless accuser was never prosecuted for lying about the incident and nearly ruining our client’s life with her wanton disregard for the truth.

• A young black man was accused of raping a white girl in the stairwell of the White Plains mall. The evidence included our client’s DNA recovered from a cigarette butt found inside the stairwell. From the moment Westchester Criminal Lawyer Richard A. Portale took over the case from outgoing counsel, the client was released and did not spend another day in jail.

• A White Plains taxi driver was falsely accused of raping a New Rochelle woman in a church parking lot – when the woman couldn’t pay her fare. The woman claimed that our client had hopped into backseat, trapped her inside by pressing the door lock button, and raped her. The client had sadly lost his job and his wife as a result. Our steely and creative Westchester sex crimes attorneys argued, amongst other valid points, that the complainant’s statement didn’t hold water because the vehicle’s door locking mechanism could not be activated from the backseat and there was a solid, bulletproof glass divider between the front and back seats. All charges were dismissed, and the man is back on his feet, back to work and remarried.

• At a time of volatility in the New York State appellate landscape surrounding the evolving crime of Attempted Disseminating Indecent Material to Minors, the firm had three (3) pending but unindicted cases under that statute (NYS Penal Law section 235). A conviction for this sex crime is a felony that carries a significant state prison sentence and up to a lifetime of Sex Offender Registration. New York Sex Crimes attorney Richard Portale deftly leveraged a looming New York State Court of Appeals decision into incredibly favorable resolutions for all three (3) clients that involved no felony, no jail, no probation, and no sex offender registration.