Domestic Assault Attorney in Cleveland, Ohio

What advice do you have for me if I’ve been charged with domestic violence?

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so here’s the thing about domestic
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violence
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among personal kind of cases
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those are the most personal uh
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this is families torn apart you know
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domestic violence can be a screaming
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fight
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domestic violence can be no touching at
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all
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but they carry enormous weight it’s
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about the only place
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i personally go into municipal city
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courts
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often because the stakes are so high and
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i’ll tell you
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the system doesn’t know how to stand how
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to handle it you know criminal courts
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aren’t the place for family problems
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you know i once had a very uh
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solid family um husband wife and child
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husband and wife get into an argument in
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the argument they argue over keys on a
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string and they’re pulling them apart
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like
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this the wife gets a cut on her finger
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the husband before we met him but for a
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long time and even
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for a while after we met him had to go
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see his kids by picking him up at the
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police station
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based upon that little fight so the
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problem with domestic violence cases
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is that again the world is afraid
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that if they let a domestic violence
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defendant lose
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and they’re wrong and he really is a
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domestic violence
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um a perpetrator and the most famous
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story happened
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two miles from our office they let a man
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loose and he killed his wife the next
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week
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so again the system loads in
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to uh to hurt him and the penalties are
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enormous
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domestic violence cases never come off
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your record domestic violence cases mean
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you can never own a gun
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those cases too take patience on behalf
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of the people because they
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the clients you know clients don’t come
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in understanding
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they think i had a fight with my wife
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leave us alone i’ve had
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cases where wives hired lawyers to come
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into court and say
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this is my husband this is our life he
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didn’t hit me
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he didn’t hurt our child leave us alone
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and the
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in the system can’t handle it what’s
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happened with
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with the internet and lawyers what
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happened with covid with lawyers
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is that we’ve broken down that personal
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relationship
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so meeting lawyers on the internet or
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covert where people couldn’t come into
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the office
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you know my overall advice to uh
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to clients is first
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meet your lawyer and make sure you trust
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them when it starts
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second be absolutely truthful with your
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lawyer
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no matter what no matter how bad it is
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because it makes no difference to the
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lawyer
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you know i represent domestic violence
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patients i have clients i’ve represented
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people on death row
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you have to tell your lawyer the truth
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third
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you have to be involved in your case
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personally
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personally you have to work with your
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case
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after being patient after talking to
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your lawyer sometimes it doesn’t work
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and this is a hard one but it’s true on
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both sides the minute that a client
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loses trust for his lawyer
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or her lawyer they should leave once
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you’ve lost trust uh
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and i hope this doesn’t happen but it
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happens to everybody for all kinds of
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reasons
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but once you lose trust for your lawyer
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move on tell your lawyer about it
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and move on because if things go bad and
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you’re in that relationship where you’re
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butting head with your lawyer
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you’ll always blame yourself and the
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lawyer for whatever happens to you

Cleveland, OH criminal defense attorney Jay Milano gives his advice for someone who’s been charged with domestic violence.

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