Saturday, October 1, 2011

What Creates The Best Criminal Defense Lawyer?

By Debrah Langston


A great quality good attorneys should have is great acting skills. While this sounds silly, it is vitally important in convincing juries and judges of a client's innocence. If a lawyer does not have the ability to make something look better than it seems, then their clients may still receive harsh sentences for their actions.

Defense attorneys need to be able to look at the truth for their clients' benefit oftentimes, and without good acting skills, they can look foolish trying to defend their client in the courtroom. The truth can be perceived in many different ways and good defense attorneys are masters of seeing their client's perspective and arguing it persistently.

These lawyers should also have a certain presence about them, and be able to intimidate the prosecution rather than be intimidated by the prosecution or the judge. While a solid defense attorney should be intimidating to the prosecution, he should be very friendly and well-mannered with detectives and police to be able to retrieve helpful information that can sway the case in his/her favor as well.

One of the most important factors to consider when dealing with a defense attorney, is his/her number of cases won. Only highly dedicated and experienced attorneys can win a lot of cases, which also shows that the attorney is not only a good lawyer, but a good person as well.

To be able to present surprises in the courtroom, an attorney must fully understand police work and be able to find hidden facts and clues that the prosecution was not able to find. If an attorney does not understand how the prosecution system works, then he/she is not likely going to find helpful information for the case that the prosecution has not already found and had time to disprove. This also requires a lawyer to be willing to spend a good deal of time talking with detectives, police, and other prosecutors to find out everything that the prosecution will present during a courtroom hearing.




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