criminal defense lawyer

When you are talking to the police about your criminal case, anything you say can and will be used against you, but when you are talking one-on-one with your criminal defense lawyer, the opposite is true. You can say anything, no matter how incriminating, up to and including an outright confession, and your lawyer is […]

Most criminal cases do not go to trial; a far more likely scenario is that the defendant will plead guilty before the prosecution starts its opening arguments. Some defendants plead guilty as soon as the judge asks them to enter a plea at the arraignment, while others start out with a not-guilty plea but change […]

In movies, defendants often get taken completely by surprise when police knock on their doors and want to search the house for drugs. This sometimes happens in real life, too, but it is also possible that prosecutors will want to engage with you on friendlier terms before, or even instead of, charging you with a […]