It doesn’t matter if you’re arrested for DUI, drug possession, carrying a concealed weapon, or even murder…there is almost always at least one legal defense that a California criminal defense attorney can present on your behalf to fight your criminal charges.
Even if you think that you have an “open and shut” case, an attorney might see it differently. This is because of the wide variety of California legal defenses that are available to so many different types of crimes…defenses that you may not even realize are relevant to your case.
Let’s say, for example, that LAPD stops you for speeding as you leave a bar in the San Fernando Valley. The officer conducts a DUI investigation but determines that you are okay to drive. But before he lets you drive away, he searches your car, finds a handgun concealed under your seat, and arrests your for carrying a concealed weapon.
Despite the fact that you are technically guilty of carrying a concealed weapon, a criminal defense attorney would tell you that the weapon was discovered during an illegal search and seizure…a legal defense that would in all likelihood result in the dismissal of your weapons’ charge.
Don’t ever assume you can’t fight your charge, because there are an infinite number of California legal defenses that could absolve you of any criminal liability.
