Las Vegas Violent Crimes Defense Lawyer

Violent crimes such as murder, home invasion, robbery with a deadly weapon, kidnapping, and reckless driving resulting in substantial bodily harm, are the types of crimes that prosecutors pour their resources into because there are the types of crimes that society and judges hate the most.  However, just because you or a loved one has been accused of committing such an offense doesn’t mean you are guilty and are going to jail.  Every case is different.  In many cases, police officers and detectives make mistakes by not preserving evidence or by providing defective Miranda warnings to a suspect.  Sometimes the eyewitnesses or the complaining witness (whom the prosecutor refers to as “the victim”) is not a good witness or has a criminal history.  A good lawyer, such as myself, knows how to capitalize on those mistakes for the client’s benefit.  To give you an example, a client of mine was read her Miranda warnings and made a full written confession admitting her involvement in the crime.   She was looking at prison time.  When I spoke to my client, I realized the federal agent who interrogated my client told her that she was looking at 20 years if she didn’t confess.  While technically that was true, in reality it was not.  I filed a motion to throw out my client’s confession even though my client apparently was read her Miranda warnings and made a full confession.  I argued that telling my client she was going to spend the next 20 years in prison when in fact she was only looking at a few years in prison produced a coerced and unreliable confession.  The judge agreed and threw out the confession.  Suddenly the prosecutor had no confession and had to negotiate a very favorable deal that resulted in my client’s immediate release from jail and she received a sentence of probation.  In another case, a client of mine drove past his girlfriend’s home, saw her ex-boyfriend’s car in the driveway.  My client grabbed a pistol (felony carrying of a concealed weapon), parked his car, broke in to her home (felony burglary with a deadly weapon), pistol whipped her and her ex-boyfriend (two counts of felony assault with a deadly weapon) in front of their children (four counts of child endangerment), and then he grabbed her by the hair and dragged her out to his car (felony kidnapping with a deadly weapon).  From there he took her in to his car and proceeded to play “Russian roulette” five times on his girlfriend with the revolver (five counts of felony attempted murder.)  While most lawyers would look at a set of facts as these and tell their client to plead, I put up a strong defense, and convinced the prosecutor that the girlfriend and ex-boyfriend were unreliable.  The prosecutor agreed and agreed to give my client gross misdemeanor probation without a felony conviction!  Now I can’t promise those kinds of results in each case, but I will tell you that a thorough lawyer like me will take the time to look at every way in which to attack a case.  My point in telling you this is that things may not be what they seem and an experienced criminal defense lawyer knows how to exploit problems with the prosecutor’s case for the client’s benefit.