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Police Questioning - Don't Forget Your Rights

In America, if you find yourself in police custody, it can be very easy to forget that you have a basic fundamental right: to have an attorney present any time you are being questioned by any branch of law enforcement.
In fact, having an attorney present if you are being questioned is absolutely essential.

Why?

For starters, an experienced criminal defense attorney can make sure that you don't answer any loaded questions, answer the same questions over and over again, make a bad situation worse, or incriminate yourself. It is important to remember that you are not on trial, even though it may feel like it.

Having an attorney present keeps police officers and detectives from using the typical tactics that are seen when they try to get suspects to either confess or incriminate themselves. Tactics such as indicating that only guilty people ask for lawyers, that they have witnesses who saw you commit the crime, that they already have forensic evidence that incriminates you, or that things will get really bad for you if you don't come clean and tell them what they want.

Our office has seen these types of tactics and interrogation techniques used countless times against people who were completely innocent. Because of that, it is critically important to contact an experienced criminal defense lawyer as soon as possible if you or a loved one has been accused of a crime.