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By: Uchenna Ani-okoye

The Criminal Defense Lawyer

The responsibility of the criminal lawyer is to negotiate, teach and litigate. The first thing that your lawyer will do is explain all the legal arguments in a way that you can best understand. If you are currently being charged for a specific crime, then it’s important that you are aware of all elements related to the crime. You also need to be aware of the evidence that the prosecution has against you.

The next thing is that your criminal lawyer should be very good at negotiating. When the evidence is weak, the prosecution may decide to lessen the charges against the defendant. In other circumstances, where the person charged has no criminal history, the prosecution may decide to lessen the charges. A highly experience criminal lawyer should be able to negotiate these things on your behalf.

The last thing that your criminal lawyer should be good at is litigation. Litigation skills a required during the jury trail. During the trail, there are a number of questions that the defense lawyer will be required to ask the judge. For example, the lawyer may be required to ask the judge whether or not someone can be used as evidence. Motion Hearing is the term used to describe this process. This is a very important process for any court case. There are times when a probably cause motion can lead to a case being dismissed.

A criminal lawyer may specialise in:

Assault
Kidnapping
Disorderly Conduct
Hit and Run
Murder
Bail Hearings

There are also white collar crimes that an attorney may specialise in:

Bribery
Price-fixing
Racketeering

Lawyers for these types of crimes usually charge more.