One of the first things that a person will consider after they’ve been charged with a crime is whether they want a private attorney to represent them in their case. I’m pretty sure that everyone starts with the idea of hiring their own attorney, but as time goes on a lot of them decide that […]

Sometimes, no matter how much work an attorney puts into a case, it’s simply not possible to put forward a successful trial defense. Sometimes the evidence that the State has is too strong to argue about the existence of reasonable doubt, and sometimes the consequences of losing at trial would expose a defendant to a […]

Bail or Bond Bail or Bond, which are terms used interchangeably by most people in the court system, refers to the conditions that need to be met in order to have a person released from jail after they’ve been arrested for a criminal offense. Most arrests are eligible to be released on bail, but there […]

Miranda Warnings Thanks to movies and television, most of us are familiar with the concept of your Miranda rights, which are based on the 1966 Supreme Court case Miranda vs. Arizona. In a nutshell, the Miranda case requires the police to advise a suspect that they have the right to remain silent, that anything they […]

A common question that we get is whether a particular person’s case is “serious” or “important” enough to hire an attorney to represent them. Most people who ask this question are usually weighing in their mind whether what they believe the likely consequences for their criminal charges will outweigh the amount of money that they’ll […]