I’m going to answer the question as to when someone should hire a criminal defense attorney in a very kind of circuitous way. First of all you should contact a lawyer whenever you think you need one. My biggest criticism with many clients is that they wait. They think they can handle it, or that
If you’ve been arrested (detained) for shoplifting and you’ve been issued a summons to appear in court then you need to watch this video. After that make sure you call the Suffolk County criminal defense lawyers a Naiburg, Obedin, and Weissman. Petty theft typically involves shoplifting, and that’s how we see it the most. So
If your license is suspended it really depends on why it was suspended. Most often people’s drivers licenses are suspended because they failed to either answer a ticket that they received or pay a fine on a ticket that they’ve been convicted of. What happens after that is if their license has been suspended and
If you have been arrested for a crime, the fact is you need not prove anything. The most fundamental principle of our criminal justice system is that a person who is accused of committing a crime is presumed innocent. This presumption stays with the accused throughout the entire case and only leaves them if they
Very often we are presented with a case involving a client who has been arrested for Driving While Intoxicated after having been involved in an accident. Generally speaking, the District Attorney’s Office in Suffolk County is going to take those cases more seriously than they do those cases where the motorist was merely stopped for
A Driving While Intoxicated arrest can have serious consequences to your driver’s license. In addition to a suspension of your privilege to drive while your case is pending, and a revocation of your license if you are convicted, there are fairly new regulations promulgated by the DMV which can result in further loss of your
Domestic violence, the verbal or physical aggression of one spouse against another, has been a societal problem for many years. In the recent past the law, and the court system, has recognized domestic violence for the serious problem that it is. In fact, special judges and courtrooms have been established to handle domestic and family
I have represented many clients who come to see me after they are charged with shoplifting claiming that they took the property out of the store without realizing they were doing so. The truth is that you can be charged with taking an item from a store accidentally because the security guard or store employee
There are many differences between defending a Federal Drug Trafficking crime, as opposed to a New York State Drug crime. The most important being that the federal law makes no distinction between the crimes of sale or possession. Any defendant charged as part of a federal drug trafficking conspiracy falls under the same section of
If you are charged for the first time with Petit Larceny, or shoplifting, you can expect to make at least two appearances. If you were given an appearance ticket at the time that you were stopped, the date on the bottom of your ticket is the date for your arraignment. On that date, you will