About Akel & Associates

Success Stories

Examples of our firm'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
- 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.