CRIMINAL DEFENSE

Criminal defense attorneys provide legal representation for complex criminal charges. They understand the essential need to protect your rights and can use focused, strategic efforts to mitigate the charges against you. With unique backgrounds in various legal fields, criminal defense attorneys are committed to providing the fierce and aggressive legal defense that your case needs.

Defense of Misdemeanors or Minor Criminal Charges

Criminal defense lawyers can help if you are facing misdemeanor charges involving:

  • Recklessly damaging or defacing the property belonging to another person or tampering with the property belonging to another person
  • Assault by knowingly, intentionally, or recklessly causing physical harm to another person
  • DUI/DWI/OUI
  • Minor alcohol charges, open bottle charges, or public drunkenness
  • Drug charges
  • Possessing a fake ID or identification of another person when you are under 21 years of age
  • Knowingly disturbing the peace of a person, family, or neighborhood by engaging in fighting, disruptive, or violent behavior
  • Failing or refusing to comply with any direction or lawful order commanded by a police officer
  • Reckless endangerment of another person where a substantial risk of physical injury or imminent death exists
  • Resisting arrest
  • Filing a false police report
  • Reporting misinformation to the police
  • Urinating in public (a criminal offense that will appear on your criminal background check forever)
  • Trespassing charges
  • Shoplifting charges
  • Sexual harassment, intimidation, or threatening behavior
  • Fish and gaming violations

Any of these charges, and more, can have a significant impact on your family life, career, and reputation. Criminal defense lawyers know how to protect your rights and secure your reputation during criminal cases. They can fight for the best possible outcome for your specific charges or situation.

We Defense of Felony Charges

Felony charges require strategic legal care and diligence, as so much is on the line. Legal professionals who focus on criminal defense have experience defending felony charges involving issues such as:

  • Aggravated assault leading to substantial physical harm to another person 
  • Using a deadly weapon
  • Armed robbery with a deadly weapon or something that simulates a deadly weapon
  • Using or threatening to use a dangerous instrument, deadly weapon, or something that simulates a deadly weapon
  • Assault on a medical person or police officer
  • A violent domestic dispute between persons who are related, engaged in a sexual relationship, have previously been in a sexual relationship, or are roommates
  • Soliciting a prostitute 
  • Engaging in prostitution
  • Indecent exposure charges and a threat of being listed on the sex offender registry
  • Felony crimes such as sexual abuse, sexual assault, kidnapping, or manslaughter

When you are facing a felony charge, there is a great deal at stake. Your attorney can stand by your side. Your criminal defender can craft a unique strategy required to achieve the most favorable outcome of your case. That includes litigating your case in a trial, if necessary.

Get Legal Help When Criminal Charges Are Involved

You are well-advised not to try to navigate your criminal charges alone. Criminal defense lawyers take your legal concerns as seriously as you do. They will work on your behalf to achieve the best outcome possible.