5 Reasons to Hire a San Diego Criminal Defense Lawyer Before Charges are Filed

In San Diego, law enforcement detectives will frequently make contact with a criminal suspect before San Diego prosecutors actually file criminal charges against the suspect. The purpose of the contact is the detective wants to interview the suspect to gain more evidence against him.

Many people in San Diego who are being investigated for a crime by a San Diego police detective call us to help them. There are 5 reasons why you should hire our San Diego criminal defense lawyers to represent you even before criminal charges are filed against you. We have been successful in achieving all of these 5 goals for previous San Diego clients.

1. We can often speak with the law enforcement detective assigned to your case to provide him with a “legal side of your story”. In some instances we have been able to convince detectives to drop investigations of child molest, residential burglary, vandalism, DUI, and many other crimes. This resulted in our clients never being arrested.
2. If the law enforcement officer does forward the case on to the prosecutors so that they can file charges, we can often speak with the prosecutors and attempt to convince them not to file criminal charges against you. We have been successful in achieving this goal for clients who were accused of rape, hit and run, vandalism, domestic violence crimes, DUI, and many other crimes.
3. We can speak with law enforcement and often have been able to convince them to proceed with the charges as a misdemeanor instead of a felony. We have been successful with this strategy for commercial burglary, grand theft, domestic violence, and many other crimes. This has been extremely beneficial for many of our clients.
4. We can speak with the law enforcement officers and attempt to convince them not to arrest our clients at their home or work. We have been successful achieving this goal with crimes such as child molest and check fraud. Of course this has saved our clients the massive embarrassment of being arrested in front of their neighbors or co-workers.
5. We can often speak with law enforcement officers and prosecutors to convince them to file charges in the courthouse which then means that our clients are not arrested and they do not have to pay thousands of dollars in bail bonds fees. Nobody wants to go through the trauma and expense of being arrested and having to pay thousands of dollars to be released. Our law firm’s ability to work with law enforcement to attempt to have you “surrendered” at the courthouse has very often resulted in our clients not being arrested or having to post bond fees.

We hope this bit of advice has been helpful. If you or a loved one has been accused of committing a crime in San Diego County, contact us as soon as possible via phone at 1-877-230-1529 or fill out our consultation form online at www.wklaw-sandiego.com for a free evaluation of your San Diego County case. We’ll help you figure out the next step, an answer any questions you might have.