District attorney drops charges against lawyer who shot man outside cigar bar
The Philadelphia district attorney’s office has dropped charges against a prominent personal injury attorney who was accused of shooting a man outside a downtown cigar bar in 2023. (Image from Shutterstock)
The Philadelphia district attorney’s office has dropped charges against a prominent personal injury attorney who was accused of shooting a man outside a downtown cigar bar in 2023.
According to Axios, which cites court records, a judge on Friday agreed to dismiss the case against lawyer Leonard Keith Hill, the founder of Hill & Associates. He had been charged with aggravated assault, weapons offenses and tampering with evidence in a nearly three-year case that was scheduled for a bench trial later this month.
The dismissal is an unexpected development in the case, Axios reports. Last year, a judge rejected a plea deal that would have allowed Hill to enter a diversion program in exchange for the expungement of his charges.
Hill was accused of being involved in the downtown shooting after surveillance cameras captured him opening fire on and wounding a man, Axios reports. He later was identified by a cigar bar manager, and police seized from his home a gun box of the same caliber of ammunition used in the shooting, Axios reports.
Hill’s attorney had argued that Hill acted in self-defense, Axios additionally reports.
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