Hiring a Criminal Defense Lawyer If you have been charged with a crime, during your first court appearance you will be asked to choose between three options: whether you want to represent yourself, request a court appointed attorney, or hire your own attorney. In...
Handling your criminal case – If you have been charged with a crime, it is a serious matter that can have lifelong consequences. The level of involvement and care that someone takes in their case is really a matter of personal choice. The last thing a defendant...
South Carolina Criminal Sentencing – When charged with a crime, there is a lot of uncertainty. Just a few of the things that need to be considered are the collateral consequences of a conviction, how strong the case is against you, what to do about hiring an...
Suppressing evidence in a criminal trial – Being charged with a crime is one of the scariest experiences one can imagine and people often feel lost, and don’t know what to do. Hiring an attorney is a logical step to help navigate you through that situation...
“Necessity” is sometimes used as a defense to certain crimes in North Carolina. Sometimes things are not what they seem to be. That is true in life and it is also true in criminal law. Although someone may have done something “wrong”, it doesn’t mean that they didn’t...
