As your attorney, I will argue persuasively on your behalf.
Throughout the course of your case, important occasions will arise when my job will be to try to persuade someone in a position of authority to favorably exercise power on your behalf.
Examples of such occasions might be:
- Trying to persuade a jury to find you not guilty of all charges.
- Trying to persuade a judge to dismiss the charges against you because the prosecutor violated your "speedy trial" rights; because the accusatory instrument is "insufficient"; or because the grand jury proceeding was impaired.
- Trying to persuade a judge to sentence you to "judicial diversion" rather than a mandatory prison term; to sentence you to probation rather than jail; or to sentence you to community service rather than probation.
- Trying to persuade an arraignment judge to release you on your own recognizance, or to set an affordable bail.
- Trying to persuade a prosecutor to offer you a plea to a lesser felony with a lower mandatory-minimum prison sentence.
- Trying to persuade a prosecutor to offer you a drug program rather than prison.
- Trying to persuade a prosecutor to offer you an "adjournment in contemplation of dismissal" rather than a guilty plea.
- Trying to persuade a police officer to give you a "desk appearance ticket" rather than process you through "Central Booking".
As an experienced criminal defense lawyer, I have developed many skills: negotiation, strategic thinking, brief writing, legal reasoning, jury selection, cross-examination and oral argument.
Each skill involves the earnest use of logic and emotion, trying to persuade people in positions of authority to exercise their power in your favor.
If you or someone close to you has been accused, call Bruce Yerman at 646-480-1278 for a FREE confidential consultation.
