Dominic Dolci, Michael McMahon, Frank Scarpino Ripoff attorney. Continuance Stagegy. Compromise their clients right to due process. Plea bargain is only defense they know. Oak Brook Terrace Illinois
If you went to a doctor with a cancerous tumor, would you want the doctor to remove just a part of it, or would you want him to remove the entire tumor?
I went to the Attorneys Dolci, McMahon & Scarpino to get all three cases of driving while license Revoked completely remedied. Like the cancerous tumor I wanted the charges completely removed. I did not want incomplete and inadequate job.
Dominic Dolici went to court for me and said he had the case diusmissed. HE LIED TO ME. I did not receive a document from the court called ?Certified Statement of Disposition. If Dolci had the DWLR dismissed in field court, why didn't I receive a Certified Statement of Disposition from the court indicating the case was dismissed?
Why was I indicted for DWLR as a felony when the alleged case was dismissed?
Because the case wasn't dismissed.
If the state could always indict me for the alleged dismissal of the misdemeanor DWLR, how was Scarpino .et Al completely remedying the problem?
I will answer the question for you. They weren't. They charged me for what I thought was completely removing the cancer, but they didn't get it all. In fact, they didn't even tell me they didn't get it all. Isn't this practice fraud?
Mr. Scarpino explained that the attorneys did not file a petition to rescind [the Statutory Summary Suspension on a separate DUI charge] because I did not have a meritorious defense.?
Incidentally, my new attorney had the Statutory Summary Suspension (SSS) rescinded, after the 90 day time limit. If I didn't have a meritorious defense, how did my new attorney get the SSS rescinded?
Mr. Scarpino let the 90 day time limit expire (in IL one has 90 days to file a petition to rescind the statutory summary suspension) because he was too busy getting continuances, hoping I would bite for the plea bargain of 60 days in jail. How is this inaction on Scarpino's part completely remedying the problem? How is Scarpino completely getting the cancer?
Who got the job done (cancer removed)?
Not Dolci, Mcmahon & Scarpino
Scarpino charged me $5000.00. For what? All he did was get 13 continuances. Would you pay $385.00 per continuance?
When answering the above question, keep in mind that Scarpino was not going to court just for me. In most cases he had at least a dozen cases going during a two hour period. He wasn't getting the cancer; he was just trying to placate his clients.
I brought my case against The IL Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC)(AN AGENCY THAT INVENTED THE WORD "RIPP-OFF") They stated in their reply to me that ?isolated instances of neglect may give rise to civil legal malpractice claims, but rarely warrant formal discipline.?
Wait a second here. Isolated instance of neglect? We are talking a man who has been given a license to defend clients in a court of law in IL. People's lives are at stake here. If I had followed Mr. Scarpino's advice, I would be sitting in jail right now. Not only would my life be affected, but that of my two children. Keep in mind in IL, any alcohol related offense is worse than rape and murder. In my cases, DWLR (where the revocation is alcohol related) is the only offense in IL (other than murder) where there is a minimum mandatory sentence. (BLAME MADD FOR THEIR PSEUDO CAUSE AND THEIR SWAYING THE IL LEGISLATORS) They have taken the Judge out of the loop. The inactions of Scarpino deserve close attention because my and others lives are at stake. Remember, this is not a parking ticket.
ARDC didn't repond.
In the final paragraph of my January 10, 2006 letter to ARDC, Ms. Goode states: ?Finally, we spoke to Mr. Scarpino about his state belief that you had received a refund. He told us that he believed that you had received a refund because you had challenged the charge on your credit card.? I paid Scarpino $1,500.00 in cash. My brother,paid the remaining $3,500.00. After the Scarpino diabolical, my brother disputed the charge and they were originally reversed. Scarpino then called the credit card company and convinced the credit card company to give the $3500.00 back to him.
Given the above information, is it evident that Scapino intentionally lied to ARDC about the refund?
Dolci, McMahon & Scarpino need to be disciplined before they ruin other people's lives by not doing a complete surgery of the cancer and leaving them to die in the hands of the State.
David
Twin Lakes, Wisconsin
U.S.A.
13 Updates & Rebuttals
David
Twin Lakes,Wisconsin,
U.S.A.
Dolci, McMahon and Scarpino are Excellent Attorneys
#14Author of original report
Wed, April 12, 2006
Please disregard all statements that I made in the above report about Dolci, McMahon and Scarpino. I have abosolutely no complaints about the legal services of Dolci, McMahon and Scarpino. In fact, they are excellent attorneys and know best how to represent their clients.
Dave
New Westminster,British Columbia,
Canada
OJ was found not guilty too
#14Consumer Suggestion
Tue, April 04, 2006
Yes, you paid a lot of money for very little work. I'll agree with that.
David
Twin Lakes,Wisconsin,
U.S.A.
Argument Ad hominum
#14REBUTTAL Individual responds
Tue, April 04, 2006
For all your people responding to my complaint against DMS, you ought to get you arguments straight. Argument ad hominum means "at the other". In other words, you are wrong because you are fat. This approach doesn't cut in philosophy or the real world. The [point I am trying to make is that I was ripped off becausue I was told a coase was didmissed. If Dolci was nay kind of an attorney, he would have told me that the dismissed case could be brought up again. Ripp Off. Also I was charged $5000 for 13 continuances. These 13 appearances were made by DMS while they were representing 20 other people on the same day. Ripp Off. As for my driving record. It's none of your business but I will say that I have no DUIs and I am legally driving....
Barry
Alsip,Illinois,
U.S.A.
Quit playing the blame game
#14Consumer Comment
Mon, April 03, 2006
I understand you feel like you got cheated out of $5000 by your lawyers. However, have you ever thought that this might never had happened if you had just given your keys up instead of getting behind the wheel. Be lucky all you got was a suspended license and not 10 years in jail for vehicular manslaughter.
Dave
New Westminster,British Columbia,
Canada
Dimissed, but not expunged
#14Consumer Suggestion
Mon, April 03, 2006
When charges are dismissed by a judge, the charges are not forgotten.
There's nothing in a dismissal that prevents the State from refiling another indictment. Double Jeopardy doesn't apply to dismissals.
One element of your report that I'd like to ask about is why your license was revoked in the first place?
It appears to me that even though the first charge was dismissed, two subsequent charges led to the first charge to be refiled.
I'm a bit surprised that there isn't more venom in the responses.
Drunk driving was illegal long before MADD got involved.
David
Twin Lakes,Wisconsin,
U.S.A.
Failure to read
#14Author of original report
Mon, April 03, 2006
2 people obviosly cannot read. I will make my 1st point of how I was ripped off very simple. Dominic Dolci went to court for me to defend me for DWLR. He came out of court and said he got the case dismissed. He did not provide me with a certified copy of the court's disposition. (Ripp off) The court did not dismiss the case as he said because I was lated indicted for the same charge (Ripp off again) Plus if he was a real man he would have told me he didn't dismiss the case rather than say that he did and set me up for a suprise indictment. This is the beginning of the Ripp Off. Are those who could not understand the ripp off beginning to see the rip off?
David
Twin Lakes,Wisconsin,
U.S.A.
Failure to read
#14Author of original report
Mon, April 03, 2006
2 people obviosly cannot read. I will make my 1st point of how I was ripped off very simple. Dominic Dolci went to court for me to defend me for DWLR. He came out of court and said he got the case dismissed. He did not provide me with a certified copy of the court's disposition. (Ripp off) The court did not dismiss the case as he said because I was lated indicted for the same charge (Ripp off again) Plus if he was a real man he would have told me he didn't dismiss the case rather than say that he did and set me up for a suprise indictment. This is the beginning of the Ripp Off. Are those who could not understand the ripp off beginning to see the rip off?
David
Twin Lakes,Wisconsin,
U.S.A.
Failure to read
#14Author of original report
Mon, April 03, 2006
2 people obviosly cannot read. I will make my 1st point of how I was ripped off very simple. Dominic Dolci went to court for me to defend me for DWLR. He came out of court and said he got the case dismissed. He did not provide me with a certified copy of the court's disposition. (Ripp off) The court did not dismiss the case as he said because I was lated indicted for the same charge (Ripp off again) Plus if he was a real man he would have told me he didn't dismiss the case rather than say that he did and set me up for a suprise indictment. This is the beginning of the Ripp Off. Are those who could not understand the ripp off beginning to see the rip off?
David
Twin Lakes,Wisconsin,
U.S.A.
Failure to read
#14Author of original report
Mon, April 03, 2006
2 people obviosly cannot read. I will make my 1st point of how I was ripped off very simple. Dominic Dolci went to court for me to defend me for DWLR. He came out of court and said he got the case dismissed. He did not provide me with a certified copy of the court's disposition. (Ripp off) The court did not dismiss the case as he said because I was lated indicted for the same charge (Ripp off again) Plus if he was a real man he would have told me he didn't dismiss the case rather than say that he did and set me up for a suprise indictment. This is the beginning of the Ripp Off. Are those who could not understand the ripp off beginning to see the rip off?
Timothy
Valparaiso,Indiana,
U.S.A.
I still see no rip-off
#14Consumer Comment
Fri, March 31, 2006
Carl is absolutely right. No lawyer will guarantee results. It just won't happen. You hired this firm to REPRESENT you, not to "get your charges dismissed."
If you thought you were hiring a lawyer to get charges dismissed, then I can see why you feel ripped off, but that's your own misunderstanding, not the lawyer's issue. He may have told you that dismissla was a possibility, but NOT a certainty.
That's not to say that you weren't otherwise done wrong, but in "reading between the lines," I don't think you were.
Carl
El Cajon,California,
U.S.A.
Still confused
#14Consumer Comment
Mon, March 27, 2006
Even with the update, the report is still not a model of clarity. Attonreys cannot guarantee any results, including the ability to get you off on all charges or to completely clean up your record. Glaringly missing from your report is any credible claim that you were innocent of the charges.
David
Twin Lakes,Wisconsin,
U.S.A.
Response to Rebuttal1
#14Author of original report
Mon, March 20, 2006
1. I hired Dolci, McMahon & Scarpino (DMS)to completely handle (get dismissed) (1) DWLR charge. Dolci went to court an came out saying the case was dismissed. (He did not give me a copy of the courts disposition.) One year later I was indicted for the same charege which was enhanced to a felony DWLR.) So, how was I ripped off? I was told the original misdemeanor DWLR was dismissed, but really it wasn't. Because if it was, I wouldn't have been indicted for he charge one yeatr later.
2. I also obtained (2) other DWLR (and one DUI which I refused to take the breathalyzer which is call Statutory Summary Suspension SSS), so now I had a total of three DWLR. I told DMS to get the charges dismissed. During a (1) year time span, the only thing DMS did was get continuances. They missed the 90 day time period during which I am allowed by law to petetion to dismiss the SSS. The only thing they were able to do is plea bargain with the State to get 61 days in jail for each. (This was before the two other DWLR were enhanced to felonies.) If I would have accepted the offer, the State would have nailed me to the cross with 180 days in jail (mandatory minimum sentence for this charge) on each DWLR for a total of 1 1/2 years in jail.
So, in summary DMS ripped me off because they charged me $5000.00 for (13) continuances, failed to petition the SSS and failed to get the charges dismissed.
Timothy
Valparaiso,Indiana,
U.S.A.
Can you clarify your report?
#14Consumer Comment
Fri, March 17, 2006
David,
I'm having trouble identifying what exactly happened with your case. I'm not disputing the fact that you were ripped off but, if you were, I'm having a hard time seeing how (for the msot part).
As I read your report, you seem to be saying that you hired this firm to deal with three charges of driving while your license was revoked.
You were told that these charges were dismised, but were later indicted for felony DWLR. Correct?
By the plain language of your report you hired this firm to deal with your charges, and nothing in your report states that they didn't do so. in fact, the only logical interpretation of your report is that they DID take care of the charges, but you continued to drive on a revoked license and got busted.
If I understand this correctly, you didn't hire the firm to get your license reinstated, you hired them to deal with the charges levied against you for driving on a revoked license. While I undserstand your analogy to a physician removing only part of a cancer, you're comparing apples and oranges in this instance. Attorneys are hired to perform specific tasks, not to generally alleviate all of your problems.
If your engagement letter only provided for services related to the charges of DWLR, then I don't see how you were ripped off. On the other hand, if you hired the attorney to deal with the charges AND reinstate your license, then you were ripped off.
But if you hire a plumber to snake out your clogged drain, don't expect him to replace the sagging pipe!
I do have to say that 5 grand is a bit steep for a handful of DWLRs that apparently were resolved by simple hearings.
And again, if I've misunderstood your report, then I apologize.