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If you have been charged with a crime in the Phoenix area, call the Law Offices of David A. Black to schedule a consultation or visit us online https://www.dbphoenixcriminallawyer.com/ Law Offices of David A. Black 40 North Central Avenue Suite 1850 Phoenix, Arizona 85004 480-280-8028 https://www.dbphoenixcriminallawyer.c... ::Transcript:: My name is David Black. I'm a Phoenix Criminal lawyer. A lot of people ask, "Whose side are you on?: Well, I'm on the side of the little guy. So I basically represent people in court who are being either investigated, accused of, or charged with a crime. As a criminal defense lawyer, we investigate, we negotiate, and we try criminal cases. This is all in the name of protecting your constitutional rights, primarily your right to counsel, your right to be free from self-incrimination and your right to a jury trial. Let's start by discussing the first step in the process, the investigative process. People frequently come to us and hire us when they're under criminal investigation. The work that we do in a criminal investigation involves talking to police, obtaining reports, hiring experts where experts are warranted, and communicating with adverse parties, in this case with a prosecutor. Our goal in a criminal investigation, of course, is to make sure that you, your business is not charged with a crime. We're protecting your freedom. We're protecting assets, but we're also preparing in the off chance that you wind up getting charged that we've got a defense ready for you. We also guide client conduct. So the police are calling you, they want to talk about an incident. They want to talk about some business dealings that your business has been having or something that maybe you did in the past. Well, under some circumstances you're going to want to cooperate. But how do you cooperate and where do you draw the line? We guide clients on that cooperation. The next thing we do is negotiate. So in the unfortunate but common circumstance where somebody gets charged with a crime, we are not only trying cases, but prior to trials, we're trying to negotiate resolutions. There are several types of resolutions. Obviously, our clients want dismissals, they wanna win and they don't want to have to risk anything at court. So that's our primary goal, is to negotiate a dismissal. Not every case gets dismissed, obviously, and so what we're really doing is we're comparing, in a criminal case, the possible worst case outcome of a trial with the benefit of a deal. What kind of deal can we work out for our client? That's a vast majority of what we do at our firm is negotiate pretrial resolutions. We negotiate to get lighter sentences, less penalties, smaller fines, and an overall lighter impact on our client's lives. That's the crux of negotiations, but no negotiation is good or complete unless there's the credible threat of a trial. And so if you ask what we really do, we will tell you we are trial lawyers. We try felonies and misdemeanors all throughout the state of Arizona to juries. Now, most cases don't go to trial. Most cases resolve before they're ever charged, or after charging through some sort of plea or even a dismissal. But those cases that do go to trial involve several steps and here's the trial process. Criminal cases begin with an initial appearance or an arraignment, and they usually take between six and nine months to get to trial. We consider the trial process all of that work that's done in the last month or two before a trial getting ready. So we're filing last minute motions. They're called motions in limine. They're basically evidentiary objections that might happen during trial that we do in advance. We're filing motions to depose, which means interview, witnesses that maybe aren't cooperative before trial. We're filing substantive motions, trying to see if maybe we can get the case dismissed or get some clarification on some charges. We pick juries. In Arizona, juries are either six, eight, or 12 people, depends on what the individual is facing. Then we conduct the trial itself, and that includes doing an opening statement, arguing all along against the prosecution in front of the jury about our client's innocence. We confront and cross examine witnesses. We sometimes have our clients testify and explain their story to the jury. After all the evidence is presented at a trial, trials conclude with closing arguments. Now, the prosecutor has the burden of proof and in criminal cases, it's proof beyond a reasonable doubt. And what that means is that our whole goal under Arizona law is to explain why there's just a real possibility that our clients didn't commit the crime. You see, if we persuade the jury, as we often do, that there's a real possibility that our clients are not guilty, then the jury's told by the judge that they must acquit. ::Truncated::