The client, a young male adult, was charged with vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence for a horrific accident while driving a Ferrari that killed one person and injured others. He faced 12 years in prison.

Federal mortgage fraud, tax fraud and money laundering.

At trial minimized damage regarding the mortgage fraud and money laundering by limiting the loss to complaint banks.

Result: Based on the motion filed by Ms. Zykanova, the prosecutor dismissed the case without even requiring a hearing.

Petition for Review granted in the California Supreme Court sending the case back for resentencing which will likely result in the client’s sentence being reduced from 5 years state prison to two years due to ineffective assistance of trial counsel at sentencing.

Our client, who had no prior record, was facing four years in prison in a very large marijuana cultivation case. The client lived at a location where a substantial amount of marijuana and weapons were found.

Result: At the outset of the case, Ferrentino & Associates attorneys pored through hundreds of pages of report. Convinced the client was innocent, the attorney met with the prosecution and identified the weakness of their case.

The prosecution reluctantly dismissed the case based on insufficient evidence and the client was immediately released from custody prior to preliminary hearing.

Our client was in his seventies, and was sentenced to 15 years to life - this was basically a life without parole sentence for him.

Our client had repossessed the car from her estranged, abusive husband when she came into police contact. The car was searched, drugs and a gun found and she was arrested.

Result: Attorney Cori Ferrentino and her associates together persuaded the DA to dismiss this case. Presentation of investigation regarding her prior complaints about her estranged husband convinced the DA to dismiss. All counts dismissed.

Result: Ms. Ferrentino presented an aggressive defense and the jury hung. On the eve of re-trial, the prosecution offered a non-life sentence and the case resolved.

Client charged with murder for providing heroin to a young woman who overdosed and died. Ms. Ferrentino hired a forensic pathologist and toxicologist who found the deceased died of poly substance overdose due to ingesting multiple substances, many earlier in the day.

Client acquitted and released after 9 years in prison with a different attorney.

Result: Ferrentino & Associates represented client in a evidentiary hearing following the successful filing of a petition for writ of habeas corpus. The conviction was vacated. Coreen Ferrentino re-tried the homicide, client acquited off all charges and released adter serving 9 years on a 25 to life sentence. At the hearing, we presented expert witness evidence establishing that the trial attorney failed to present available medical evidence that refuted the district attorney’s theory of time and manner of death.

At the new trial, our client was acquitted and released after 9 years in prison.

Ferrentino & Associates represented a Florencia 13 gang members who were accused of participating in a gang rape, as well as a federal offense of ammunition possession. This case was part of the largest federal gang prosecution at the time, with 101 defendants indicted on a variety of other charges.

Result: The case brought forth by federal prosecutors depended heavily on information from inside jailhouse sources, many of whom cut deals with the prosecutors in exchange for shorter prison sentences. Attorney Ferrentino capitalized on these weaknesses in the prosecution's case, which ultimately led to a mistrial. Of the 11 defendants who went to trial, only our client was not convicted.

In the retrial Ferrentino & Associates again successfully defended our client, as the jury acquitted or hung on all of the serious charges. Our client now has a second chance, and was able to return home to his family.