subject: How A Lawyer Plays The Game And Applies Legal Skills To New Cases [print this page] Whether innocent of guilty, once the state says you have a case to answer to, you will no obligation buy stand up to the charges and face them head on, having good legal representation by your side. You would have to find yourself a lawyer who specializes in criminal defense. The nature of any good lawyer will be to work with the facts at hand and find ways within the justice system to prove the innocence of the client. In the interest of setting his client free, he will go to great lengths, even manipulate or twist the law, in order to achieve his objective.
The first order of business would be putting together a strategy of defense. It is important for evidence to be gathered to support the case, and to evaluate whether or not they would be really helping the case at all. Looking at the evidence will enable the lawyer to fully understand the case and make it easier for him to devise a plan of action. The client would have to be informed by the lawyer if the chances don't seem too good. Still, the attorney would do his best to fight for the client's interests. If he could not get the client acquitted, he would at least try to lower the punishment.
The lawyer will formulate the defense based on the evidence gathered, the laws that are relevant to the case, and previous decisions made on cases just like the ones he is currently working on. The client's account of what took place would also be relied on by the attorney. The lawyer will make use of whatever he deems to be very useful evidence in arguing his client's case and get him off scot-free. Weak evidence would have to be strengthened, and so more digging may be required. The attorney will be doing the digging to reinforce the evidence. There are so many sources of evidence. One of them would be the account of valid witnesses who were present during the commission of the crime or act.
If the attorney you hired is anywhere as good as they should be, they will make sure that they have done all of that prior to the case's run in the court. The attorney should take advantage of this pre-trial phase to use whatever resources or evidence he was able to gather in cross-examining his client. The client will be up to speed with what might transpire once the case is presented and fought before the court. The client will be taught how to act and how to react once the prosecution takes its turn and starts cross-examining him. Theories would also be formulated and the attorney can make use of these theories when the case is finally brought before the judge and the jury in court.
It is not 100% that a lawyer will always win the case, how ever good he was or how hard he worked. If the case looks bleak, the good lawyer will be able to spot it immediately. He will also be truthful about it to the client. But he will also try his best to get the least severe punishment he could get. Any appeal that will be made after the client has been found guilty by the court would also be filed by the lawyer, since he is the one tasked to use whatever legal means necessary to prove his client's innocence.
