Not Guilty & Sealed

My client was charged with Burglary 3 (a Class 5 Felony). My client was the long-time cleaning lady of an older couple that apparently had a habit of keeping large sums of money in multiple safes in their home. When the couple came to believe that there was a large amount of money missing from their safes, they believed that my client had stolen it. My client was seen on video opening one of the safes, but then closed it and locked it without taking anything. My client claimed that the alleged victim would leave her safe open often, so my client had gotten into the habit of checking it then locking it if it was not locked. The case went to trial. Through demonstrating an alibi for one relevant time period in the case, casting doubt that any money was actually taken at all, providing positive character witnesses, and demonstrating both motive and opportunity of other family members to have taken the money (if any was actually taken), a jury acquitted my client after less than 20 minutes of deliberations. We moved to have the case immediately sealed.