Case Results of Matt Horak

Case was tried in front of a jury, but the judge ordered a verdict of not- guilty after we cross-examined the State’s witnesses in the case.

After repeated efforts by the alleged victim requesting that charges be dropped and admitting to the prosecutor that she had taken pills and 3 vodkas, the state still moved forward with trial. If that was not enough, we discovered in the middle of trial that the officer had a recording of the entire investigation that was never turned over to us. The recording did not support the prosecution. Client happily went home a free man.

We showed the jury the incorrect procedures the officer performed and that the field sobriety tests, in general, are completely slanted and not “scientific tests” in any regard. The prosecution tried to convict based on my client’s refusal to provide a sample – after he had already been placed under arrest for DWI.