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title: "Two Charges in Two States"
description: "Charge: Filing False Police Report (State of RI) and Leaving the Scene of an Accident and OUI (State of Mass) Facts: The client is driving home from a bar located in the State of Massachusetts and..."
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date: 2014-12-04
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# Two Charges in Two States

**Charge:** Filing False Police Report (State of RI) and Leaving the Scene of an Accident and OUI (State of Mass)

**Facts:** The client is driving home from a bar located in the State of Massachusetts and gets into

an accident where he crashed his car into a telephone pole making his car inoperable.

Client then panics and leaves the scene on foot and calls a friend to get a ride home in

Woonsocket, RI. When he wakes up the next morning he calls the Police Department

and reports his car stolen. Rhode Island and Mass Police begin a dual investigation. The

client is then charged by RI with Filing a False Police Report and charged by Mass with

leaving the scene of and accident and OUI.

**Results:**

**Filing a False Police Report:** Dismissed, upon 15 hrs of community service

**Leaving the Scene/OUI:** Dismissed, upon $500 payment in costs