Criminal Defense: Pretrial Planning and Preparation
Success as a criminal defense attorney requires an enormous
commitment of time and effort to gather and verify the facts of a case. It is nice to be blessed with
cleverness or to have a trick or two up your sleeve, but it is better to be
well prepared, and that requires a time-consuming and painstaking analysis of
the facts.
Most cases are disposed of without going to trial. Many cases end with a guilty plea. So why spend time getting your case
ready for trial if it is going to result in a guilty plea? Because you can't be certain which
cases will go to trial and which will end with a plea until you have conducted
discovery, completed a factual investigation, and researched the penal and
procedural law.
The test of a profession is the love of the
drudgery it involves
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How to Analyze a
Police Report
Police reports are formal documents that provide the details
of a criminal event or activity.
These documents include the location, date and time of the occurrence,
as well as the details of the event and the names of any individuals involved
in the matter. Eyewitness observations may also be included in the report. Moreover, if witness information is
included in the report, the witnesses' name, telephone number, address and
possibly their physical description is included in the report.
Those charged with the duty of defending the
accused are also protecting the rights of all citizens as contained in our
constitution. It is important not
to take anything at face value, including a set of facts provided by the
prosecution. Instead,
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