Legal Justice
Why was lawyer arrested after tossing previous license plate in trash?
“I used to be fortunate sufficient, lucky sufficient to be ready to rent an legal professional, problem the cost,” Colorado lawyer Manuel Diego Soza advised the Denver Submit. Picture from Shutterstock.
A Colorado lawyer who tossed his expired Texas license plate within the trash stated he was wrongly arrested after the plate was used on a automobile owned by a Walmart thief.
The Denver Post had the story on the ordeal suffered by lawyer Manuel Diego Soza, who was wrongly accused of stealing a $199 speaker by Westminster, Colorado, police.
Soza stated he’s a Hispanic man, as was the Walmart thief. However his license plate was used on a Subaru that was a distinct mannequin and coloration than his automotive. The thief had a neck tattoo, whereas Soza doesn’t have one. And the suspect seems to be youthful and shorter than Soza.
A detective had concluded that Soza was the thief after a surveillance photograph of the wrongdoer and an image of Soza.
“The suspect who stole the merchandise is clearly Manuel Diego Soza,” the detective concluded in a report.
Soza advised the Denver Submit that the thief didn’t resemble him in any respect.
The thief “was simply one other Hispanic male,” Soza stated. “I assume [the detective] noticed my title and was like, ‘Hispanic male, this matches in some way.’”
Soza was arrested at his condominium advanced and brought to jail, the place he spent about six hours earlier than he was launched on bail. He stated he spent about $6,000 on a lawyer. Prosecutors filed a movement to drop the case final week.
“I used to be fortunate sufficient, lucky sufficient to be ready to rent an legal professional, problem the cost,” Soza advised the Denver Submit. “However what number of different Hispanic males are additionally being introduced up in that courtroom, not having the ability to [fight] it, shedding jobs over it, shedding alternatives? It simply makes me actually upset.”
