Criminal Defense Associates
Help Your Criminal Lawyer Help You
By Adriana J. Noton
Our daily lives are heavily under the impact of the legal system of where we live and one day you may need the services of a Criminal Lawyer. This might be subtle, but this is true in all places around the globe. Everything must be conducted according to the existing law; from insignificant thing like walking on the street to very important thing like declaring a war. Moreover, the world that grows rapidly causes several changes. This is the result of the financial loss, new technology, and bad relationships. The changes can cause people who have no bad intention to make a bad mistake which will lead them to the service of criminal defense attorney. Unfortunately, the attorneys are not a perfect help. They will prefer to do collaboration with their clients so that they can help the clients optimally.
Quality time: The easiest way to create a good cooperation with your lawyer is by coming to the meeting that the lawyer has set. This meeting is important for you to discuss everything about your legal problem. There are too many bad examples on the ignorance of the clients. In America only, most clients who have problems with circuit and juvenile cases fail to meet their lawyers.
Meetings with lawyer are crucial, so if your attorney wants to meet you, make sure you say yes. You can even help him or her more by preparing your case's detail, documents, or witnesses. Your lawyer is definitely a busy person. Thus, if you are unable to meet him in certain meeting, call him and reschedule the meeting. The moment before the trial start is not the perfect time to conduct meeting.
Be honest: Be aware who your lawyer is. He or she is not your friend, your priest, or even your parent. The point is that you must never justify, exaggerate, and change any fact in front of your attorney. Just provide things that you remember to be the truth. Your attorney will help you with your case no matter what has happened before. However guilty you might be, they will still give you legal advices, getting you the defenses, and honestly telling you about possible resolutions.
More honest information from your part will be resulting in better defenses from your defender. But if you lie, you cannot expect a good relationship between two parties since there will be no trust. This can lead to unfavorable outcomes that will make you less happy in the end.
The proof is everywhere: In the courts of criminal cases, right or wrong sometimes does not matter anymore. The only valid things are witness credibility, constitutional questions, or best evidence. If the trial has only two witnesses, one from each party, the winner of the case usually is the party that can provide the witness who can tell better story and presenting facts more consistently.
So, help your lawyer finding better defense for you by providing him the details, alibis, witnesses, and corroborating information. If you are not anywhere near the crime scene when it happened, provide proof. You can show restaurant receipts, contact, toll slips, property titles or maybe statements from your associates.
You must not be complacent when you are accused for things that you did not do, even if you cannot actually do it. Everything can happen in the court, and the innocent not always win in the end.
May 18, 2011
9:03 pm
requirements for practicing law (criminal defense work)?
I know the basic degree is called a JD, but how do I go a/b achieving that. How many years is it, and how do I go about getting to doctorate level also.
I need 2 know the fastest way. also I can complete 2 yrs of community college b4 I get out of HS, so what should I get that associates in? Criminal Justice, Psychology?
My guidance councellor did not have anything to offer.
June 9, 2011
9:07 pm
You need a BA to get a JD…the JD is doctorate level…
The JD program is usually 3 years full time or 4 year part time…there are a couple of 2 year programs as well..
To get into a JD program, you need to take the LSAT…
The associates won’t help you either way, except for transferring to a BA program…I suggest you take as many writing classes as possible in college to help you in law school.
Good majors are English and Philosophy, but any major will work…mine was theatre…
June 16, 2011
1:35 am
Personally, I use Dewy, Cheatum and Howe.
They’re great.
July 6, 2011
8:08 pm
juvenile sex defense attorneys.?
Do you think a law firm called Imhoff & Associates, P.C. Criminal Defense Attorneys is a good law firm that will get charges dismissed? There website is criminalattorney.com
July 13, 2011
8:08 pm
Why does Bill Clinton think he is some type of help or advantage to the liberal party?
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=9122909&ch=4226716&src=news
- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- Second president accused of rape**
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court
* According to our best information, 40 government officials were indicted or convicted in the wake of Watergate. A reader computes that there was a total of 31 Reagan era convictions, including 14 because of Iran-Contra and 16 in the Department of Housing & Urban Development scandal. 47 individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine were convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes with 33 of these occurring during the Clinton administration itself. There were in addition 61 indictments or misdemeanor charges. 14 persons were imprisoned. A key difference between the Clinton story and earlier ones was the number of criminals with whom he was associated before entering the White House.
Using a far looser standard that included resignations, David R. Simon and D. Stanley Eitzen in Elite Deviance, say that 138 appointees of the Reagan administration either resigned under an ethical cloud or were criminally indicted. Curiously Haynes Johnson uses the same figure but with a different standard in “Sleep-Walking Through History: America in the Reagan Years: “By the end of his term, 138 administration officials had been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. In terms of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever.”
**Selene Walter accused Ronald Reagan of rape 39 years after the alleged assault in the 1950s. No further information is available on this case. The Juanita Broaddrick case involving Bill Clinton was investigated by the congressional impeachment counsel. According to counsel David Shippers those conducting the interview “have assured me that she is the most credible witness that either one of them have ever talked to”
STARR-RAY INVESTIGATION
- Number of Starr-Ray investigation convictions or guilty pleas (including one governor, one associate attorney general and two Clinton business partners): 14
- Number of Clinton Cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 5
- Number of Reagan cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 4
- Number of top officials jailed in the Teapot Dome Scandal: 3
CRIME STATS
- Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
- Number of these convictions during Clinton’s presidency: 33
- Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
- Number of congressional witnesses who have pleaded the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122
SMALTZ INVESTIGATION
- Guilty pleas and convictions obtained by Donald Smaltz in cases involving charges of bribery and fraud against former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy and associated individuals and businesses: 15
- Acquitted or overturned cases (including Espy): 6
- Fines and penalties assessed: $11.5 million
- Amount Tyson Food paid in fines and court costs: $6 million
CAMPAIGN FINANCE INVESTIGATION
- As of June 2000, the Justice Department listed 25 people indicted and 19 convicted because of the 1996 Clinton-Gore fundraising scandals.
- According to the House Committee on Government Reform in September 2000, 79 House and Senate witnesses asserted the Fifth Amendment in the course of investigations into Gore’s last fundraising campaign.
-James Riady entered a plea agreement to pay an $8.5 million fine for campaign finance crimes. This was a record under campaign finance laws.
CLINTON MACHINE CRIMES FOR WHICH CONVICTIONS WERE OBTAINED
Drug trafficking (3), racketeering, extortion, bribery (4), tax evasion, kickbacks, embezzlement (2), fraud (12), conspiracy (5), fraudulent loans, illegal gifts (1), illegal campaign contributions (5), money laundering (6), perjury, obstruction of justice.
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
- Number of independent counsel inquiries since the 1978 law was passed: 19
- Number that have produced indictments: 7
- Number that produced more convictions than the Starr investigation: 1
- Median length of investigations that led to convictions: 44 months
- Length of Starr-Ray investigation: 69 months.
- Total cost of the Starr investigation (3/00) $52 million
- Total cost of the Iran-Contra investigation: $48.5 million
- Total cost to taxpayers of the Madison Guarantee failure: $73 million
OTHER MATTERS INVESTIGATED BY SPECIAL PROSECUTORS AND CONGRESS, OR REPORTED IN THE MEDIA
Bank and mail fraud, violations of campaign finance laws, illegal foreign campaign funding, improper exports of sensitive technology, physical violence and threats of violence, solicitation of perjury, intimidation of witnesses, bribery of witnesses, attempted intimidation of prosecutors, perjury before congressional committees, lying in statements to federal investigators and regulatory officials, flight of witnesses, obstruction of justice, bribery of cabinet members, real estate fraud, tax fraud, drug trafficking, failure to investigate drug trafficking, bribery of state officials, use of state police for personal purposes, exchange of promotions or benefits for sexual favors, using state police to provide false court testimony, laundering of drug money through a state agency, false reports by medical examiners and others investigating suspicious deaths, the firing of the RTC and FBI director when these agencies were investigating Clinton and his associates, failure to conduct autopsies in suspicious deaths, providing jobs in return for silence by witnesses, drug abuse, improper acquisition and use of 900 FBI files, improper futures trading, murder, sexual abuse of employees, false testimony before a federal judge, shredding of documents, withholding and concealment of subpoenaed documents, fabricated charges against (and improper firing of) White House employees, inviting drug traffickers, foreign agents and participants in organized crime to the White House.
ARKANSAS ALTZHEIMER’S
Number of times that Clinton figures who testified in court or before Congress said that they didn’t remember, didn’t know, or something similar.
Bill Kennedy 116
Harold Ickes 148
Ricki Seidman 160
Bruce Lindsey 161
Bill Burton 191
Mark Gearan 221
Mack McLarty 233
Neil Egglseston 250
Hillary Clinton 250
John Podesta 264
Jennifer O’Connor 343
Dwight Holton 348
Patsy Thomasson 420
Jeff Eller 697
FROM THE WASHINGTON TIMES: In the portions of President Clinton’s Jan. 17 deposition that have been made public in the Paula Jones case, his memory failed him 267 times. This is a list of his answers and how many times he gave each one.
I don’t remember – 71
I don’t know – 62
I’m not sure – 17
I have no idea – 10
I don’t believe so – 9
I don’t recall – 8
I don’t think so – 8
I don’t have any specific recollection – 6
I have no recollection – 4
Not to my knowledge – 4
I just don’t remember – 4
I don’t believe – 4
I have no specific recollection – 3
I might have – 3
I don’t have any recollection of that – 2 I don’t have a specific memory – 2
I don’t have any memory of that – 2
I just can’t say – 2
I have no direct knowledge of that – 2
I don’t have any idea – 2
Not that I recall – 2
I don’t believe I did – 2
I can’t remember – 2
I can’t say – 2
I do not remember doing so – 2
Not that I remember – 2
I’m not aware – 1
I honestly don’t know – 1
I don’t believe that I did – 1
I’m fairly sure – 1
I have no other recollection – 1
I’m not positive – 1
I certainly don’t think so – 1
I don’t really remember – 1
I would have no way of remembering that – 1
That’s what I believe happened – 1
To my knowledge, no – 1
To the best of my knowledge – 1
To the best of my memory – 1
I honestly don’t recall – 1
I honestly don’t remember – 1
That’s all I know – 1
I don’t have an independent recollection of that – 1
I don’t actually have an independent memory of that – 1
As far as I know – 1
I don’t believe I ever did that – 1
That’s all I know about that – 1
I’m just not sure – 1
Nothing that I remember – 1
I simply don’t know – 1
I would have no idea – 1
I don’t know anything about that – 1
I don’t have any direct knowledge of that – 1
I just don’t know – 1
I really don’t know – 1
I can’t deny that, I just — I have no memory of that at all – 1
ARKANSAS SUDDEN DEATH SYNDROME
- Number of persons in the Clinton machine orbit who are alleged to have committed suicide: 9
- Number known to have been murdered: 12
- Number who died in plane crashes: 6
- Number who died in single car automobile accidents: 3
- Number of one-person sking fatalities: 1
- Number of key witnesses who have died of heart attacks while in federal custody under questionable circumstances: 1
- Number of unexplained deaths: 4
- Number of northern Mafia killings during peak years of 1968-78: 30
- Number of Dixie Mafia killings during same period: 156
July 22, 2011
4:30 pm
Do we really want to return to the Clinton presidential experience?
Bill:
The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a State Court
Source: P S
July 24, 2011
2:56 pm
Who are you planning to vote for in 2008?
Consider this… [THE CLINTONS]
- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance.
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates.
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation.
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify.
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly.
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation.
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case.
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court.
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions .
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad.
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court.
July 26, 2011
4:37 pm
To be honest I don’t think you have to worry.
McCain would love to run against Hillary as there is so much dirt they can come up with
July 27, 2011
4:04 pm
Obama all the way; he is unique and has energy. He wants to empower the next generation and wants to invite us to quit being lazy Americans (especially our youth). He is exactly what the country needs-someone who encourages empathy and community involvement.
July 29, 2011
1:08 am
Because, Clinton, like Obama, thinks he is God. They are competing for the spot light.