About Law Offices of Areeg Akel, Attorney at Law

Success Stories

Examples of our office's criminal defense cases, Areeg Akel, Attorney at Law, has successfully handled on behalf of her clients are:

- ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON (FELONY)-NO FILING
- ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON (FELONY) - REDUCED TO A MISDEMEANOR PC 415 (C) using foul language in a public place, NO JAIL
- 5 Counts of serious Felony charges with residential burglary as a strike. Case settled to a simple misdemeanor, No Jail time & all Felony charges & strike were dismissed
- Sex crime: Dismissal
- 5 counts of deportable criminal offenses: Drug charges, child endangerment, and domestic violence with a weapon: all charges dismissed. Plead to a Misdemeanor that is a non-deportable offense. Such success saved a non-permanent resident (a client without legal status in the U.S.) from Deportation and from spending thousands of dollars on attorneys' fees defending the deportation/ removal proceedings.
- Domestic Violence- NO FILING
- 3rd DUI- no charges filed,
- domestic violence no charges filed,
- assault with a deadly weapon no charges filed,
- Assault with a deadly weapon and immigration issues dropped to using foul language in public with no jail time and only 6 month of summary probation.
- 4th offense DUI - Plead to DUI with one prior kept it a misdemeanor
- 3rd offense DUI- no charges filed
- Four charges of 1. 1st offense DUI, VC 23152 (a) 2. DUI, VC 23152 (b) 3. Driving with a suspended Driver's License and 4. Hit and Run with an accident damaging two cars - with Immigration Hold: reduced to one count of first time DUI, no jail time and INS hold removed.
- 3rd offense DUI, BAC .24 - reduced to DUI with BAC .11 and 5 days of public work program, no jail.
- 2nd Offense DUI, BAC .36- No public work service
- Charged with VC 23101 Reckless Driving - REDUCED TO SPEEDING INFRACTION, NO POINTS ON RECORD allowed to take traffic school
- Misdemeanor RECKLESS DRIVING AND DRIVING WITHOUT A LICENSE- CASE DISMISSED
- 2nd Offense DUI - dismissed
- Sex Offense: Dismissed
- 5 counts of deportable criminal offenses: Drug charges, child endangerment, and domestic violence with a weapon: all charges dismissed. Plead to a Misdemeanor that is a non-deportable offense. Such success saved a non-permanent resident (a client without legal status in the U.S.) from Deportation and from spending thousands of dollars on attorneys' fees defending the deportation/ Removal proceedings.
- 3rd DUI- no charges filed
- Domestic violence: no charges filed
- Assault with a deadly weapon no charges filed
- Assault with a deadly weapon and immigration deportation issues- charges dropped to PC 415 "using foul language in public- with no jail time and only 6 months of summary probation and case to be dismissed after successful completion of probation.