A successful motion to suppress will make all the illegal items inadmissible in court and will more than likely cause the prosecution district attorney to either withdraw the case or cause the court to dismiss it for lack of evidence. Police can begin an investigation based on reasonable suspicion that criminal activity has occurred or is occurring. Reasonable suspicion is a lower form of probable cause and allows police to detain or temporarily hold a criminal suspect to investigate their suspicions.
Reasonable suspicion also sometimes allows police to stop either a car or a pedestrian and the courts will evaluate the reasonableness of the stop based on the totality of the circumstances. After that stop, the officer is permitted to investigate his suspicions but the court will evaluate the basis for that investigation. A court, therefore, in determining the reasonableness of an investigation may consider the following:. Since there is no exact amount of time in which an officer must complete an investigation, it is important to always remain silent and not allow police to search your vehicle or your person.
Never give consent to search! Criminal defense cases can be highly stressful and complicated. We discuss in this video what you may expect in your case as we fight for the best possible outcome. You may know nothing about the criminal system and may be confused on what to do next.
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Unlike a prosecutor, your criminal defense attorney can spend the time to build a strong case to help get your charges dismissed or your penalties reduced. Thanks to attorney Jeff C. Paulk I was able to get back to my loved ones and my community. Paulk had the charges reduced to a misdemeanor during bond court and eventually dismissed altogether My case was knocked down from a DUI to reckless driving, and I couldn't be more pleased with the service that was provided to me. I highly recommend him!
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Watch More Videos. First Name Please enter your first name. Working with a federal criminal attorney as early on as possible shows investigators that you are prepared to defend yourself, and trying to build a case against you when you have a lawyer protecting you could prove too difficult for investigators, and cause them to abandon the investigation.
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As soon as you are questioned or even if you suspect you are involved in a criminal investigation, call or contact our federal defense team from anywhere in Michigan. A statute of limitations says how long after an offense a person can be indicted, an indictment being a document that officially charges a person with a crime.
So if you have still not been charged after the time set by the statute of limitations, the investigation is effectively over.
For most federal crimes, the statute of limitations is five years. Bank fraud has a statute of limitations of ten years. Immigration violations and arson are also subject to a ten year limit. Art theft has a longer statute of limitations, twenty years. For capital offenses, aka offenses where you can get the death penalty, there is no limit. Additionally, some offenses happen over an extended period of time, like federal conspiracy offenses. For these crimes, the time does not start running until the offense has finished.
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