Your Criminal Defense Attorney will represent you in all of the procedures and be your voice to the Judge and eventually the Trial Jury. He or she will review all of the facts and evidence in the case against you and look for holes in the Prosecutor's evidence. During the Bail Hearing, your Attorney can help get reasonable bail set for you. Prosecutors will sometimes ask for unreasonable amounts of bail so that you will be unwilling to post bail, therefore not being able to leave jail. During the trial, your Defense Attorney will present your case to the jury and tell them your side of the story. They will try to disprove theories brought forth by the Prosecutor and create doubt in the minds of the Jurors of whether or not you could have committed the crime in question.
Also during the trial, the Criminal Defense Attorney will call forth witnesses that can help prove the accused person's character, prove where they were at the time of the incident or prove the actual facts of the case. If the accused is guilty of a crime, but to a lesser degree than the Prosecution is accusing, then the Defense Attorney will try to get the charges lowered to the actual degree of the offense.
If the accused is found guilty during the trial, the Criminal Defense Attorney will usually start the Appeals process for their client. This is extremely popular when criminal procedure was not followed properly during the trial. The whole Criminal process can be very complex and very confusing. That is why it is essential to have an Attorney that specializes in Criminal Law to represent you.
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