Why Appoint Criminal Attorney

Miranda Rule
A person taken in police custody must be informed about the constitutional rights before interrogation by the police as required under the Miranda Rule. The Rule provides one with the rights like remaining silent, having the presence of an attorney during interrogation in prison and having an attorney appointed when the person charged with crime cannot afford one. However ironically the Miranda Rule is read out to a booked person only after imprisonment. Since the police can start asking questions before taking the booked person in prison, any unguarded statement at that time can be used against the convict later on by the police in the court of law. It is therefore in the best interest of a person charged with crime to ask for appointment of a criminal lawyer before answering to the questions by the police. In the backdrop of the police reading out Miranda Warning to the imprisoned person, it can only be the criminal attorney who can guide the charged individual effectively through the complex legal maze.

The Guilty
Appointing a criminal attorney is for obvious reasons necessary for a guilty individual. The way the questions by the police need to be answered by the person is directed by the criminal attorney. This prevents the police from extracting evidence for framing charges to convict the person. As a result the degree of conviction as well as punishment gets lessened. While it may be in the interest of the booked person to cooperate with the police in their investigations, the advices for such cooperation must come from the criminal attorney.

The Innocent/Minor Offenders
Even an innocent person can be thought of wrongly as guilty by the police and charges framed against him or her. In such cases, it is the criminal attorney who can guide the charged person to answer in a way that deflects attention away from the innocent to someone else. For minor offenders, the criminal lawyer ensures that charges are not framed for major offences.