Representation of individuals charged with
serious violent crimes including homicide, arson and sex crimes.
Not exact matches
«The vast majority of detainees in Brook House have committed very
serious crimes,
including drugs, sex and
violent offences.
Kavanagh, Carnright said, is assigned to cases involving
serious crimes with am emphasis of
violent offenses
including gun possession and robbery.
He worked in the Special Assault Unit and
Violent Crime Unit where he handled serious felony cases involving high - risk victims including sexual assaults and violent crimes, and was appointed to the Eyewitness Review Group responsible to analyze legal and scientific developments in eyewitness identification ev
Violent Crime Unit where he handled
serious felony cases involving high - risk victims
including sexual assaults and
violent crimes, and was appointed to the Eyewitness Review Group responsible to analyze legal and scientific developments in eyewitness identification ev
violent crimes, and was appointed to the Eyewitness Review Group responsible to analyze legal and scientific developments in eyewitness identification evidence.
He is equipped to handle
serious and
violent felony
crimes including life sentence cases.
These
include firearms offences for simple possession (obviously a
serious crime with the potential for violence but not
violent in - and - of itself), certain drug charges, high - level fraud cases and, most commonly impaired driving cases (even where there is no injury).
Reasons
included (1) judges «grade on a curve» and, after sitting through 20 cases involving
violent crimes, might not find a more minor
crime as
serious whereas a jury would not share this context; (2) defendants will select those judges who they believe will be more inclined to acquit; (3) judges are bound by fixed sentencing rules so rather than sentence a defendant of a nonserious
crime to a lengthy term they avoid that dilemma through acquittal; (4) judges might better understand the complex elements of certain corporate
crimes and, unlike a jury, would recognize when the prosecution failed to carry its burden and (5) some judges may just have something against prosecutors.
Norm founded and leads Pattis Law Firm, a Connecticut based criminal defense and civil rights firm which focuses on
serious felonies
including violent felonies, white collar
crimes, sex offenses, drug
crimes, and misconduct by lawyers, doctors, and government officials.
Processed
serious and complex of
crime scenes,
including homicide and other
violent crimes by providing technical support to Police Officers and forensic scientists in analyzing, photographing to
include aerial photography, collecting, preserving, and presenting physical evidence.