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The Many Benefits Of Arraignment Attorneys

Just imagine what sort of things will be going through your head if you were ever charged with a criminal offense of any kind. In a circumstance which is as life-altering as this, are you going to leave your life in the hands of a public defender or are you going to hire a NYC arraignment attorney to help ensure you are proven innocent?

 

The answer to this question is quite obvious in my eyes, I would go with the professional attorney. But not everyone thinks the same way. When you get a professional attorney on your side, you will gain access to their years of experience and they will obviously be a lot more interested in your case since you are paying them for your services. As far as public defenders are concerned, they are usually poorly paid and overworked. So the chances of them actually working on getting you out are close to none. These public servants even have a minimum number of cases which they have to complete within a given year. Private lawyers don't have even half this workload and this ensures that they can give a lot more attention to each of their cases.

 

Now when it comes to hiring a criminal defense attorney, you will obviously want to hire someone who is a specialist in the type of felony you are being charged with. You wouldn't want a general lawyer who couldn't care less whether you are guilty or innocent now would you? So getting a lawyer who not only believes in your innocence but also works on proving it should definitely be the most important thing on your list.

 

There is no doubting the fact that the public defender will give your case a decent amount of thought and will try to prove your innocence, they may not have the required knowledge in your particular case and this may cause you to lose your freedom. Are you willing to risk your life?

 

Plus, when you hire an attorney, they will walk you through the entire legal process and will also give you an idea of all your options at every step of the way. You may find one option quite lucrative at some point and may decide to take it. Now you would not be able to take if you didn't even know about it now would you? Can you really trust a public defender to bring it to your notice? The choice is yours.

 

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