Adam Chrzan

Bar / Professional Activity

• Indian River County Bar Association Board member 2021-present. Chair of Non-Dues Income Committee., 2025
• Indian River County Bar Association, Member, 2004 to Present
• Indian River Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Past President, 2014 to 2016
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida, 2012
• Florida, 2003
• Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Life Member, 2009 to Present
• Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Board Member, 2016 to Present
• Member Indian River County Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 2025
• Member of St. Lucie County Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 2025
• Indian River County Bar Association Board member 2021-present. Chair of Non-Dues Income., 2024
• Member of Indian River County Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 2024
• Indian River County Bar Association Board member 2021-present. Chair of Communication and Publicity., 2023
• Indian River Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Member, 2009 to Present
• Florida Bar Grievance Committee 19th Judicial Circuit Committee member, 2017-2019 and committee chair 2019

Verdicts / Settlements (Case Results)

• CASE DISMISSED: State v. Frank Grimaldi (Indian River County case No. 2025-CT-125). Client charged with DUI and Resisting Arrest after being found asleep in the back seat of his car with the motor running. Both charges dismissed prior to trial., 2025
• CASE DROPPED: State v. Anthony Hobgood (Indian River County case No. 2024-CF-507). Client charged with Aggravated Assault with Deadly Weapon. Case dismissed by prosecutor prior to trial., 2024
• CASE DISMISSED: State v. Marvil Suarez (Indian River County case No. 2024-CT-16956). Client charged with DUI after stop for speeding. State offered a reckless driving plea that was turned down the day before jury selection. Charge dropped that afternoon., 2024
• CASE DROPPED: State v. Jose Cervantes (Indian River County case No. 2024-CF-64). Client charged with Possession of Controlled Substance found under trash in a work truck driven by other workers. Charges dropped after depositions and prior to trial., 2024
• CHARGE REDUCED: State v. Randy Finuff (Indian River County case No. 2024-CF-664). Charged with High Speed Fleeing and Eluding on a purported chase on Interstate 95. Dash-cam video and body cam video showed client was just speeding and not try to get away from law enforcement. Charge reduced to Reckless Driving and later dismissed after a diversion program., 2024
• CASE DROPPED: State v. Sage Roberts (Indian River County case No. 2024-CF-1352). Client argued with 68-year-old man. Charged with Felony Battery on Elderly Person. Charge dropped prior to trial., 2024
• NOT GUILTY VERDICT: State v. Jesse MacDonald (Indian River County case No. 2024-CT-9314). Client stopped for stopping on top of the stop bar at an intersection. Police smelled alcohol and client refused all tests and breathalyzer. Jury acquitted client of DUI., 2024
• CASE DROPPED: State v. Zackary Franks (Indian River County case No. 2024-MM-2138). Client charged with Battery on his wife, who fled with couple's child and was later found to be embellishing the facts. Prosecution dropped just prior to jury selection., 2024
• CHARGES REDUCED: State v. Aaron Jimenez (Indian River County case No. 2024-CF-0038) Client charged with Burglary of an Occupied Dwelling. As charged, client faced up to 15 years in state prison and a minimum required guideline sentence of 22 months in state prison. Petitioned prosecutor to reduce charge to misdemeanor Trespass of an Occupied Structure and misdemeanor Criminal Mischief, with 1 year of probation and 50 hours of community service., 2024
• CASE DISMISSED: State v. Kevin Branstrom (Indian River County 2023-CF-703). Charged with Aggravated Assault with Deadly Weapon and Battery. Case diverted and later dismissed on Battery charge after Aggravated Assault charge was dropped., 2023
• CASE DROPPED: State v. Larry Bass (Indian River County 2021-CF-1320) Client accused of hitting 16-year-old girl. Felony Child Abuse charge dismissed after depositions and prior to trial. , 2023
• NOT GUILTY VERDICT: State vs. Curtis Huff (Indian River County 2019-CF-0009); charged with first-degree ($100,OOO or more) Worker's Comp Fraud. Offer was 12 years in prison. Three day jury trial. Verdict: Not Guilty., 2023
• CASE DROPPED: State v. Daniel Riley (Indian River County case No. 2022-CF-1381). Charge of Possession of Fentanyl dropped by prosecutor after evidence showed client had no knowledge of the drugs found in the glovebox of a car he was driving. Case dismissed just prior to Motion to Suppress being filed., 2022
• NOT GUILTY VERDICTS: State v. Andrew Coffee (Indian River County 2017-CF-374). Not Guilty of Felony Murder, three counts of Attempted Murder of Law Enforcement Officer and one count of Shooting Deadly Missile. Convicted of Possession of Firearm by Felon. Involved botched drug raid on his father's house, where law enforcement shot and killed client's girlfriend in a firefight. Client faced life in prison upon conviction of the murder and attempted murder charges. Faced 30 years on firearm charge and received 10-year sentence with credit for five years already served., 2021
• CHARGE REDUCED: State v. Eddie Rivera (Indian River County case No. 2021-CF-1392). Client charged with Felony DUI and facing 5 years state prison. At jury selection, negotiated plea to lesser-included misdemeanor offense of Reckless Driving, with sentence of 1 year probation., 2020
• CASE DISMISSED: State v. Roderick Scott (Indian River County 2017-CF-1158). Possession of Firearm by Convicted Felon. Client was found in car with loaded firearm. Defense affidavit disclosed to prosecutor the gun and car were not his, but his wife's. Charge dismissed, avoiding a 3-year minimum-mandatory prison sentence., 2020
• CHARGE DISMISSED BY COURT: State v. Broecker (Indian River County 2019-MM-353). One of 10 cases I handled where a DCA dismissal was granted with 175 other cases. Vero Beach police and other law enforcement conducted a months-long illegal prostitution sting by surreptitiously recording employees and patrons at massage shops in the county. A motion to dismiss was granted by the trial court and appealed by the State, with the 4th DCA upholding the dismissal., 2019
• NOT GUILTY VERDICT: State v. Langin (Indian River County 2013-MM-2538). DUI case where client's only driving pattern was speed. Jury verdict 15 minutes: Not Guilty., 2014
• NOT GUILTY VERDICT: State v. Smith (Indian River County 2012-CF-771). Not guilty of Armed Carjacking, False Imprisonment with a Firearm, Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon and Battery. Allegations were client dragged woman to his car and held knife to her throat and made her drive him to a drug house. Client had faced a minimum of 9 years in state prison under sentencing guidelines and a maximum of 50 years in state prison, until jury acquitted on all counts., 2013

Representative Clients

• State v. Joshua Jimenez (Indian River County case No. 2023-CF-656, resolved in July 2024). 16-year-old client was charged with bringing a firearm to school and the State Attorney upfiled the case to adult felony court. Depositions indicated the case was not ripe for a jury trial. State made no offer and sought prison time. Pleaded open to the Court and argued for, and obtained, a sentence of house arrest and probation, with an opportunity to early terminate probation after 2 years., 2024

Pro bono / Community Service

• Volunteered as assistant coach to boys' high school soccer teams for my sons' school., 2025
• Volunteer work as room parent for son's 9th Grade class., 2025
• Served as security officer and communion organizer for Vero Beach Church of Christ, 2025
• Assisted with Vacation Bible School in July at Vero Beach Church of Christ. Involved in set up, running program and dismantling everything when the school was over., 2024
• Volunteered as assistant coach to boys' high school soccer teams for my sons' school., 2024
• Room parent for son's 8th Grade class. Organize field trips, special days, collect money for and buy gifts for homeroom teacher for holidays and occasions each year. Have volunteered for this 6 years running. 2018 to Present, 2024
• Gifford Legal Services Clinic. Began working with this group in 2023, providing pro bono services to residents unable to afford an attorney, who have non-criminal matters. Assisted a woman who was being strong-armed over a auto purchase contract with a usury finance charge. Also assisted a woman who had fled from an abusive husband in Illinois, while she had a pending criminal charge. Helped her obtain information so she could turn herself in to authorities on the bench warrant, and not be held without bond while she resolved the charge there., 2024
• Security team at church and in charge of Communion each Sunday. Have done this for past 4 years., 2023
• Room parent for son's 6th Grade class. In charge of organizing special days, collecting money for and buying gifts for homeroom teacher for three occasions each year. Have volunteered for this 4 years running., 2023
• Conducted a 1-hour CLE seminar on ethics and professionalism for Treasure Coast Paralegal Association. Seminar discussed ethics and professionalism pitfalls and how paralegals could assist their lawyers in avoiding those issues., 2022
• Dancing With Vero Stars Committee chair (2015-2017) and committee member (2014 and 2018-present). Raise money annually for Healthy Start Coalition of Indian River County. Most raised annually in 2019 was $501,000., 2023
• Bell ringers annually for Salvation Army Christmas fund-raising drive., 2022
• Florida Bar Grievance Committee 19-B. Meetings monthly to review and discuss grievances against lawyers in the 19th Judicial Circuit. Was assigned cases and had to write opinions concerning what sanctions we would impose., 2018
• Florida Bar Grievance Committee 19-B. Chair of Committee in 2019. Meetings monthly to review and discuss grievances against lawyers in the 19th Judicial Circuit. Was assigned cases and had to write opinions concerning what sanctions we would impose., 2019
• Florida Bar Grievance Committee 19-B. Meetings monthly to review and discuss grievances against lawyers in the 19th Judicial Circuit. Was assigned cases and had to write opinions concerning what sanctions we would impose., 2017
• Co-chaired Indian River County Bar Association Law Week. Included setting up events in county's public school, hosting a radio show with call-in questions and coordinating a Law Week lunch celebration., 2006

Educational Background

• University of Central Florida, Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, 1986

Honors

• Given to the top student in the class. Also known as the Book Award for that particular class., Excellence in Trial Advocacy, Shepard Broad Law Center at Nova Southeastern University, 2002
• Given after completing my year of chairing the committee., Meritorious Service Award for Florida Bar Grievance Committee 19-B, Florida Bar, 2019

Awards

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