to be successful as a criminal defense

lawyer you have to have the ability to

find the core story of the person who’s

been charged and bring that home to the

jury finding that core story takes a lot

of Investigation a lot of work with the

client because the government has come

forward with one version of what

happened and it’s my job as a defense

attorney to come forward with the

version that most favors the person

who’s been charged with the crime

the thing about dealing with prosecutors

is day in day out they see defendants

charged with crimes and that’s all they

are is defendants charged with crimes to

me these are individual people who are

my clients who aren’t likely to

experience a criminal charge ever again

in their life this is their one time to

be in this system and it’s important

when I deal with prosecutors to tell the

prosecutors or bring home to the

prosecutors the fact that this is really

important to my clients life because

prosecutors become numb to the

consequences that a prosecution has on

an individual’s life