Public Defender Investigator Network

One way or another, sometimes we have our day in court. This means that whether or not the client is culpable of the crime he committed, his criminal defense lawyer should do his best to defend his client from the crime committed and will not be convicted.

How will you do that job? If you are a public defender, and the client is appointed to you and you’ve got to satisfy him. Before this person is arraigned in court, you may have time to discuss what is going to be his plea that will then be presented to the judge.

Afterwards, you will have ample time be given thus you’ll be able to conduct an investigation, review police reports and examine the evidence to organize you for trial.

During the trial, each side is in a position to present witnesses. Some of these are consultants and after the prosecution queries this person on the stand, you will have th Read more…

When a potential client calls our firm and tells us that they are charged with a criminal offense, one the first things we generally ask them is whether they are charged in state or federal court. There have been several instances where we have represented two individuals at the same time who are charged with similar offenses but one has been charged in federal court and one has been charged in state court. Indeed, this has happened several times where we have simultaneously been representing two individuals charged with drug offenses but one is charged in state court and one is charged in federal court. It also happened very recently where we simultaneously represented a defendant charged with a child pornography offense in state court and also represented a defendant (actually he was the spouse of an FBI agent) charged with a child pornography offense in federal cour Read more…

The Department of Corrections is part of a criminal justice system that includes hundreds of city, county, state and federal agencies. They include:

• Police Departments
• Sheriff’s Departments
• Prosecutors
• Defense Attorneys
• Superior Courts
• County Jails
• State Prisons

Most criminal acts are never handled through the criminal justice process because they are not reported. In 200 Read more…

Overview

Every saint has a past and every sinner a future. Criminal law takes cognizance of this universal truth and every accused is provided with ample rights while deciding whether he/she has committed any offence. Prosecution guidelines provide for certain procedural niceties to be extended to a person accused of crime. After all, the law intends to punish the crime, not the criminal. Adversarial system views crime as a wrongdoing against the state and not against a particular person. The interests of the state are represented by the prosecuting attorney. As such, law views the offender sympathetically and treats him/her as innocent until proved guilty and passes the burden of proving the case to the prosecution. The defendant has a right to be presumed innocent unless and until the State has proven each and every element of the c Read more…