G.V., originally charged with a vehicular homicide of a bar patron who attacked his truck, was facing 45 years imprisonment, but was cleared by a jury of the homicide charge on the grounds of self-defense, and was later sentenced to 4 year sentence for a misdemeanor culpable negligence and felony fleeing the scene of the accident; he was released in August 2008 from state prison, and was reunited with his children and now supports them. (See Palm Beach Post article titled: Man Who Fled Faces Prison in Bar Patron’s Death, published on January 12, 2006).

S.H. was accused of attempted murder of his live-in girlfriend at a local mobile home park. The defense was that she tried to kill herself by stabbing herself in the back. S.H. was ACQUITTED of all charges.

T.A. was tried two times on attempted murder of a law enforcement officer. After the second prosecution, he was convicted only of aggravated assault and received time served. Later, the City of West Palm Beach paid him civil damages for the improper shooting of him in the back during the arrest.

K.A. was found guilty of murder but was spared the death penalty in 2005.  Two experts testified that he was legally insane at the time of the double homicides at a local construction site.  This was Val Rodriguez’s first death penalty case.

Val Rodriguez was able to have charges dismissed for two defendants who were alleged to have committed grand theft by not removing their homestead exemptions from properties rented out through H.U.D.