Phoenix Criminal Attorney

Phoenix has grown into a huge metropolis over the past 20 years, and it is spread out in every direction. If someone has been charged with a crime, either felony or misdemeanor in the Phoenix area or in surrounding counties, it is wise to secure a Phoenix criminal attorney. In fact, a Phoenix criminal attorney is well able to handle a case from anywhere in Arizona. Laws differ statewide and a criminal lawyer from each individual state would be expert in those laws.

There are seven major areas of criminal law that all the individual criminal charges fall under. The crime you have been charged with must be identified and defined as a crime, or the State cannot charge the defendant with that particular crime. Charges such as DUI's, drug-related, violent and domestic violence cases, white collar crime, first/second degree murder, drug and homicide conspiracies, drug trafficking including sales and possessions, sexual battery, exposure charges, arson, fraud, robbery, theft, assault and battery, domestic violence, traffic deaths, resisting arrest, shoplifting, abuse allegations of children and the elderly, embezzlement, insurance fraud, burglary, and kidnapping are just an example of the cases that are considered criminal - either felonies or misdemeanors. DUI's and drug- related cases by far are the greatest in number. A good criminal attorney should be experienced in all of these.

If someone gets stopped for DUI, in the state of Arizona, no one has to speak and offer answers to the Police. It is the right to remain silent, and even by being "nice and polite" they could inadvertently answer questions that could be used against them later. The legal limit is 0.08, which is the limit to which someone would be considered legally intoxicated, but what they don't say is that in Arizona if someone shows impairment even to the slightest degree, it is sufficient for conviction. So, if the officer asks, how impaired do you think they are on a scale of 1-10 and the defendant replies 1, it could be fatal information against them in court. A criminal attorney will tell them that they have the right to talk to the attorney prior to answering. Better to simply be silent until that time.