Any alleged criminal in Orem who is caught by the police, should call their attorney immediately. This is the best way to protect their rights and not be found guilty. The police will often tell a defendant that it will look better if they talk to them without a lawyer. This is not good advice. A lawyer will make sure that they don’t make any incriminating statements that can be used as evidence at their trial.
A lawyer should speak with them prior to the arraignment hearing, where they will hear the formal charges. He can then tell the judge why the charges are too severe and why lesser chargers are in order. The judge also decides at the arraignment hearing whether the defendant will get bail and how much it will be. Often, if it’s a person’s first offense and it wasn’t a violent crime, the attorney can get a very low bail set. Sometimes he can get the defendant released on their personal recognizance, which means they don’t have to post bail.
Once the charges have been finalized, the defense attorney goes over all of the police procedures to make sure that they did not violate any of defendant’s rights. If the police didn’t have probable cause to search the car trunk, then any evidence found in it can’t be used to show the person is guilty. The staff at Morley and Associates P.C. will also go over all of the evidence to see if it could also link someone else to the crime. Sometimes police become fixated on one person and don’t look at the full range of suspects. This analysis can be used to create reasonable doubt in the minds of the jurors.
If the police are convinced that the defendant is guilty, they may not spend that much time evaluating his alibi. They might not even believe it if the defendant was at home with his parents. Today electronic evidence such as cell phone and toll passes can be used to track a person’s location. The lawyer will show all of this to the jury, to support their alibi.
