Recent & Notable Case Results
Attorney Phil Eisenhauer was lead counsel for a client who was charged with murder second-degree A. C. A. Attempted robbery first-degree and A. C. A. Client was charged with shooting and killing the victim during a robbery and carjacking while the victim was parking his vehicle late one night in South St. Louis Missouri. The defense was misidentification. The Verdict: the jury hung 9 to 3 for not guilty. The case was later dismissed before the next scheduled trial date.
Phil was lead counsel for a client who was accused of possessing a small amount of PCP. After the police found him passed out in a vehicle at a stoplight. The officer then conducted a search of the vehicle and allegedly found the PCP in an ashtray located inside the vehicle. The defense was that if the client was using PCP he would not be passed out as the drug has the opposite effect on someone taking it. The vehicle also did not belong to the client. The Verdict: the jury returned a not guilty verdict.
Attorney Eisenhauer was the lead counsel for a client who was accused of first-degree statutory rape and first-degree child molestation. The victim accused my client approximately two years after the alleged rape and molestation and while the alleged victim’s mother was angry at her for having consensual sex with a boy of similar age. Also, the victim’s mother was in an ongoing feud with our client at the time of the accusation. The defense was that the victim was making these false allegations against our client in order to appease her mother and assist her mother in an ongoing feud with my client. The Verdict: We prevailed and the jury returned a not guilty verdict.
Phil was lead counsel in a jury trial where my client was charged with first-degree murder, armed criminal action, and unlawful use of a weapon, and another count of armed criminal action. Our client was charged with a drive-by shooting and killing of a fellow motorist while cruising on a Sunday night in downtown St. Louis. The state presented two eyewitnesses and a third witness who placed our client in the vehicle used in the killing. The defense was misidentification. The Verdict: jury hung 10 for not guilty and two for guilty and the case was later dismissed.
Phil was lead counsel in a bench trial where my client was charged with unlawful use of a weapon by exhibiting and third-degree assault. Our client was accused of exhibiting a pistol in an angry and threatening manner and assaulting her roommate during an argument over the behavior of her child. Our client claimed she exhibited the weapon only in self-defense while she was being assaulted by her roommate. The Verdict: The judge found her not guilty.
Attorney Eisenhauer's client was charged as a codefendant with another client for assault in the first degree, armed criminal action, shooting from a moving vehicle, and another count of armed criminal action. He provided the representation for the client and acted as lead counsel in his defense, for shooting at another moving vehicle. The defense was misidentification. The verdict: not guilty.