Sometimes criminal investigations begin far in advance of indictment, especially in white collar crime federal cases.\u00a0 However, in any criminal case, as soon as you believe you are a target for indictment, you should consult Atlanta criminal defense attorneys to protect your rights.<\/p>\n
Many people do not have a good understanding of their right to remain silent or their right to an attorney.\u00a0 These are rights that you actually have to invoke.\u00a0 Simply remaining silent does not mean that the authorities will stop questioning you.\u00a0 The Supreme Court ruling in Berghuis v. Thompkins<\/a><\/em> established that a defendant must voice the desire to remain silent.\u00a0 In this case, after remaining silent for three hours, the suspect finally answered a question.\u00a0 While his defense attorney argued that his answer was inadmissible evidence based on Fifth Amendment rights, the Supreme Court allowed the evidence because the defendant did not invoke the right to remain silent.\u00a0 He never said that he did not intend to answer questions and never asked for a lawyer.\u00a0 You also must ask for an attorney and if you do not, authorities assume you waive your right to counsel.<\/p>\n Having an experienced lawyer <\/a>at your side from the outset strengthens your chances for dropped charges, case dismissal, reduced charges or acquittal in a criminal case.\u00a0 It also allows your attorney more time to work on building a strong case.<\/p>\n Cochran Firm Atlanta<\/a> stands prepared to strongly fight for our clients rights in criminal cases and to obtain the most favorable outcome possible.<\/p>\n If you want to file an Injury & accident claim, contact our Accident Lawyers, who have expertise in Auto Accident<\/a>, Car Accident<\/a>, Brain Injury<\/a>, Personal Injury<\/a>, Premises Liability<\/a>,Truck Accident<\/a>, Police Misconduct<\/a> and other areas of practice<\/a>. Call The Cochran Firm Atlanta toll-free at (404) 222-9922<\/a>, or send us your queries using this\u00a0inquiry form<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes criminal investigations begin far in advance of indictment, especially in white collar crime federal cases.\u00a0 However, in any criminal case, as soon as you believe you are a target for indictment, you should consult Atlanta criminal defense attorneys to protect your rights. Many people do not have a good understanding of their right to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Protect Your Rights in a Criminal Case | The Cochran Firm","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84,10],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-cases","category-local","tag-local"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/atlanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/atlanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/atlanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/atlanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/atlanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/atlanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11559,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/atlanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/11559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/atlanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/atlanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/atlanta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}