Line Up a Criminal Trial Lawyer Now
April 16, 2008
This is for people with money. I wish it were for everybody.
A friend of mine got charged with criminal sexual abuse on his 3-year-old daughter. His wife made the accusation after she left with the kids. There was no warning. She just departed.
It took four months for him to get custody of his children. The court determined that there was no truth to the charges.
He tells me that if he had not had a top-flight criminal lawyer, he might not have gotten the children back. He had to hire a private investigator, too.
He recommends the following. First, before you need the services of a criminal lawyer, have one in mind. Have his phone number on you at all times.
Second, have $10,000 cash in reserve. He will demand a retainer.
Third, if you are ever under arrest, and you are allowed only one call, this is the person to call.
I wish everyone could afford this. The closer you get to this back-up plan, the safer you are.
From a site member (August 18):
Dr. North's advice in re a good criminal lawyer has merit.
Almost a year ago at about 10:30 at night, we had trespassers on our property. Our house is the only house at the end of a gravel road, a quarter mile off the blacktop. We have hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in crops and farm equipment immediately adjacent to the house. As the trespassers left our property I ventured out to identify them, following them out onto the blacktop road. They were driving away at a very slow pace (probably 20 to 30mph), so it wasn't difficult to catch up to them at 45/50 mph; when I did catch up to them, they stopped. They were pretty clean cut young men and I estimated them to be 20 years old give or take; they didn't seem to be a threat, so I got out and approached the vehicle. As I did, they got out of the vehicle and beat the mess out of me...bad enough to warrant an ambulance ride to the ER and three subsequent surgeries (orbital fracture, tooth fracture, strabismus). The injuries I sustained had rendered me unable to recall the events with clarity and thus unable to identify my attackers, but they began to boast of their exploits and the thing began to be known "around town". The sheriffs dept. then identified these boys as suspects and sought a statement from them. Long story short, they lawyered up, refused to make a statement, and no one came forward to say that the thing had been corroborated through the boastings. They also hired a PI to try to dig up something on me. They will get off because there is not sufficient evidence to meet the burden of proof. Only one of them admitted to hitting me (on TV and to the local newspaper) but claimed self-defense; I easily surmise that he, not having the means, is taking the fall for the more wealthy suspects in exchange for a criminal defense. I am interested in monetary restitution for my medical bills, not incarceration, so the thing will likely be dropped.
The point of all this is that oftentimes the burden of proof cannot be met without self-incrimination through corroboration. If you are accused of a crime, say nothing and lawyer up.
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