Do not believe that just because someone is charged by a law enforcement representative that they are guilty.  Charges are laid for a variety of reasons including pressure from the public, pressure from supervisors, to improve clear up rates, department policy, the shotgun approach, poor police work and faulty investigations.

We are here to take that police brief or investigation, dissect it, find the witnesses and exculpatory evidence the police would prefer wasn't presented in court and locate the grounds for reasonable doubt. 

We also look to mitigate the damage done by people's actions, done in the heat of the moment, with thing such as negotiated outcomes and diversion to other arena's, rather than criminal hearings.

Now we need to be bought in early, to do our job effectively.  We need a copy of any police brief or correspondence.  We need your version of events.

When people are charged, summonsed, given a notice to appear or simply taken before a court, they are taken before a court where for criminal matters they usually have three choices.  These are to plead guilty, plead not guilty or seek a remand to obtain legal advice.  For more serious matters people will appear to have bail enlarged so that a date for a committal hearing may be set down.  An indication of a plea may be made.

People do not always plead guilty because they are guilty.  Some people plead guilty to protect others, some people plead guilty because the cost of defending themselves is too high, and the outcome of a court hearing can never be guaranteed.  Some people plead guilty because they lose hope.  In some jurisdictions an early guilty plea is taken into consideration when sentencing.

For myself I would always choose a trial by jury, if possible, because you would hope that a jury would see things in the shades of grey that is life, rather the black and white of statute law.

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