Verdicts

Robert M. Archuleta is proud of the many people he has helped in his long and successful career.  Some recent successes include:

• A motion to suppress evidence of illegally seized drugs found in a locked Thule luggage carrier was successfully concluded based upon an unreliable and uncorroborated citizen tip and a subsequent violation of the prohibition against unreasonable search and seizures of the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the Utah State Constitution when the locked luggage carrier was opened by the police.

• Dismissal of charges against a Carbon County inmate who was accused of sodomizing another inmate.  Medical evidence developed by Robert M. Archuleta proved that the charges were not consistent with the alleged medical anal injuries and, as a result of that significant medical investigation and medical testimony by a doctor, the charges were dismissed.

• A not guilty verdict for a male client who was accused of assaulting and beating up his girlfriend.  Robert M. Archuleta showed that none of the evidence matched the injuries alleged and a doctor’s testimony convinced the jury the woman was lying about her injuries.

• A not guilty verdict in federal court for an African American man who was arrested for allegedly passing drugs.  Robert M. Archuleta’s client was turned in to police by an eyewitness police snitch, but when cross examined in federal court her entire credibility was attacked and as a result her story was no longer credible or believable, and the defendant was found by the jury to be not guilty.

• A not guilty verdict was reached for a woman who was charged with 48 counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with her stepson.  Evidence presented at trial showed that the stepson was lying and he actually broke down in tears when he was caught in so many lies.

• A not guilty verdict for a client charged in a drug trafficking conspiracy case in federal court.  All 14 of the client’s co-defendants plead guilty, but Robert M. Archuleta took the matter to trial in the United States District Court for Utah and established reasonable doubt in the minds of the jurors by showing that the government informant was being paid nearly $100,000 a year to be a government snitch and his credibility was totally destroyed.

• A not guilty verdict in federal court for a Hispanic resource manager at the Utah State prison who was set up by an inmate sociopath con-artist.  A $150,000 payment was made to a federal agent, based on Robert M. Archuleta’s client wanting to get a loan to start a shoe franchise.  The set-up was shown to the jury, victims of the snitch testified, and the snitch’s credibility was totally destroyed.