College Student’s Underage Drinking Charge Dismissed

On the Pittsburgh Campus, University Police approached a group of young people. When questioning the group, one of the individuals suddenly took off running and another member of the group, a 19-year-old male student surrendered a bottle of wine to the officers and the young man was charged with underage drinking. Underage drinking is a summary offense, and in Pennsylvania that carries an automatic 90-day license suspension. In addition to possible license suspension, the student was also worried about jeopardizing future internship and career opportunities with a conviction and he contacted the attorneys at Worgul, Sarna & Ness, Criminal Defense Attorneys, LLC.

We only needed to appear in court once on behalf of our client and worked to have the underage drinking charges completely dismissed. Our client successfully avoided a license suspension and he won’t have to explain any charges to potential employers.

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