How does criminal trial impact if suspects hired teams of lawyers?
Author: admin // Category: trialLet say a low profile case, it’s felony case but low profile. Let say the suspect who is on trial does hired a teams of lawyers. Maybe 10 defense lawyers work with suspect because he is wealthy. How does prosecutor handle this? Will prosecutor hire even more teams with tax payer money? Or prosecutor will dismissed the case because can’t afford court costs?
If they want to blow money on bottom feeders, oh sorry, I mean lawyers, let them do so.
A Prosecution doesn’t have to match the defense team one on one, the law doesn’t work that way.
A team of lawyers is only relevant if there are different facets of the law involved. Say that the accused is charged with fraud, theft, assault and vehicular fleeing, he might have a specialist lawyer in each type of crime to handle the various witnesses and evidence.
July 26th, 2010 at 8:12 am
No matter how many lawyers the defendant hires — and some hire platoons of them — the States Attorney or District Attorney (prosecutor on behalf of the government) will have to face them. There is no money to bulk up the prosecutor’s office. Most prosecutors are pretty good at what they do, regardless of how many lawyers the defendant has.
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July 26th, 2010 at 9:00 am
If they want to blow money on bottom feeders, oh sorry, I mean lawyers, let them do so.
A Prosecution doesn’t have to match the defense team one on one, the law doesn’t work that way.
A team of lawyers is only relevant if there are different facets of the law involved. Say that the accused is charged with fraud, theft, assault and vehicular fleeing, he might have a specialist lawyer in each type of crime to handle the various witnesses and evidence.
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