Legal research, hiring an expert on sexual disorders, review of numerous submissions by the client to the Department of Children and Families, review of several home movies from my client’s family, interviews of several witnesses and several submissions and meetings with the prosecutor ultimately resulted in a dismissal of all charges.

First and most importantly, we had to convince our client his defense at trial – that is, that he had a good faith belief that he did not have to file tax returns based on a theory well known to tax protestors, was folly. That took well over a month to accomplish. Thereafter, we convinced the client to construct a web site on which he debunked the tax protestor argument and accepted responsibility for his actions. Then we had him speak at his church to accept responsibility and reject the theory which he formerly espoused – we had it videotaped and played it at the sentencing and, along with preparing and filing a lengthy sentencing submission, prepared several witnesses, including an expert who proved the inaccuracy of the testimony of the Internal Revenue Service agent. The government sought 3 years in prison, the sentencing guidelines recommended two years in prison, but the judge sentenced the client to 11 months. Further, the judge granted our request, over the government’s objection, to recommend to the Board of Chiropractic that our client’s license not be suspended or revoked.