Acute Investigative Service's Criminal Defense Page

HOW WE HELP YOU:

We have successfully handled hundreds of
criminal defense investigations for clients by
and through their attorneys in state and
federal courts. Our services have proven
invaluable to criminal defense attorneys.
Whether you have court-appointed counsel or
you have retained an attorney at your own
expense, you must also have a excellent
investigator to help build your defense.

We handle serious felony investigations
including homicide, robbery, sex offenses,
drug possession/trafficking, kidnapping,
vehicular assaults/homicides, burglaries,
identity theft/forgery, Felony NCO violations,
drug tampering, bank robbery, as well as gross
misdemeanors and other less serious offenses.

Attorneys have extremely busy schedules.
They rely on Paralegals and Investigators (like
us) to handle daily communications with clients
and to assist in building viable defenses. After
your attorney reviews the evidence against
you, he will develop a defense theory. He will
then meet with us to discuss the goals of the
investigation, time and budgetary constraints,
and how best to proceed.

Your attorney knows what is best for your
case! Listen to his advice carefully. Your
attorney relies upon your investigator to locate
and obtain the evidence he needs to create
reasonable doubt in the minds of jurors and/or
to show a prosecutor problems with meeting
her burden of proof. Even if your case doesn't
proceed to trial, your investigator can help
your attorney get you a better plea offer.

Law Enforcement is not on your side. It is their
job to obtain the evidence needed to arrest
you, put you in jail, and for prosecutors to send
you to prison. Officer's will not spend time
talking to your witnesses or locating evidence
that may be helpful to your defense.

We are on your side! We will talk to your alibi
witnesses. We will double-check the cop's
work to make sure that what was reported by
witnesses was accurately documented and not
taken out of context. We will interview alleged
victims for ulterior motives. We will help you
and your family.

Miranda warning
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In the United States, the Miranda warning is a warning
given by police to criminal suspects in police custody, or in
a custodial situation, before they are asked guilt-seeking
questions relating to the commission of a crime. A custodial
situation is one in which the suspect's freedom of
movement is restrained although he or she is not under
arrest. An incriminating statement by a suspect will not
constitute admissible evidence unless the suspect was
advised of his or her "Miranda rights" and made a knowing,
intelligent, and voluntary waiver of those rights (the term
"Miranda rights" is somewhat misleading, as the mandated
Miranda warning simply clarifies preexisting Constitutional
rights). However, a 2004 Supreme Court ruling upheld state
"stop-and-identify" laws, allowing police to require
biographical information such as name, date of birth, and
address, without arresting suspects or providing them
Miranda warnings.

The Miranda warnings were mandated by the 1966 United
States Supreme Court decision in the case of Miranda v.
Arizona as a means of protecting a criminal suspect's Fifth
Amendment right to avoid coercive self-incrimination (see
right to silence).

The Supreme Court did not specify the exact wording to be
used when informing a suspect of his or her rights.
However, the Court did create a set of guidelines which
must be followed. The ruling states:
“ ...The person in custody must, prior to interrogation,
be clearly informed that he or she has the right to remain
silent, and that anything the person says may be used
against that person in court; the person must be clearly
informed that he or she has the right to consult with an
attorney and to have that attorney present during
questioning, and that, if he or she is indigent, an attorney
will be provided at no cost to represent him or her. ”

As a result, American English developed the verb Mirandize,
meaning "to read to a suspect his or her Miranda rights"
(when the suspect is arrested).[1]

Notably, the Miranda rights do not have to be read in any
particular order, and they do not have to precisely match
the language of the Miranda decision, as long as they are
adequately and fully conveyed. California v. Prysock, 453 U.
S. 355 (1981) [1]

POLICE PREY ON YOUR EMOTIONS,
YOUR NEED TO TELL YOUR SIDE OF
THE STORY, AND YOUR DESIRE TO
TALK YOURSELF OUT OF TROUBLE.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

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