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Investigations, Issues, & Actions Before the Arraignment

• Red flags
  • Business litigators
  • Personal injury attorneys
    • Marsy’s Law
    • Civil v. criminal burden of proof
    • Civil v. criminal discovery
    • Restitution and civil damages
    • Civil v. criminal prosecution
    • Types of cases
    • Successful PI and Criminal practice
  • Family lawyers
  • Corporate Counsel
  • Solo practitioners
• Collateral and Administrative Consequences of Criminal Charges
  • Immigration
  • Professional licenses
  • Other areas & issues
• Grand Jury investigations
  • State vs. federal
  • Civil vs. criminal
  • Federal Grand Jury investigations
  • Is your client a witness, subject or target?
  • To testify or not to testify before the Grand Jury?
  • What to do about production of records before the Grand Jury
  • State Grand Jury indictments
  • Challenging the Grand Jury
  • State civil Grand Jury report
• What to do when you receive the phone call
• Client Arrest, Release, Bail & Arraignment  
  • Keeping clients out of custody
  • Immigration considerations related to custody
  • The arrest process – who can arrest; rights; questioning; warrant; who maintains arrest records and what they contain
  • Bail and release – when can release occur; release on OR vs. bail; what is bail and how is it set
  • Arraignment – what happens at arraignment; timing for arraignment; how to prepare for arraignment
• Motions
  • Demurrer/Motion to Strike
  • Reduce felony to misdemeanor
  • Conditional examination
  • Motion to Set Aside
  • Motion to Suppress Evidence
  • Brady
  • Motion to Compel

After the Arraignment – Through Sentencing

• Negotiations
  • Prosecutor
  • Private practitioner
  • Federal
  • Immigration considerations
• Pleas
  • Arraignment
    • Purpose
    • Procedure
    • Complaint
    • Information
    • Citation
  • Grounds for postponing pleas, prior-conviction allegations
  • Plea of guilty or no contest
  • DEJ
  • Mentally ill and developmentally disabled
  • Demurrer
  • Statute of limitations
  • Trial setting dates
• Sentencing
  • Restitution
  • Civil compromises
  • Misdemeanor
  • Low grade felonies
  • Immigration – recent case law changes at the USSC
• Preliminary Hearing/Indictment or Grand Jury 
  • State vs. Federal
  • Procedural issues
    • Quorum
    • Transcription of all conversations
    • Exclusion of non-essential parties
  • Prosecutor’s obligations
    • Duty to present exculpatory evidence
    • Overriding the will of the Grand Jury
    • Evidentiary issues
  • Defense’s obligations
    • History of the Grand Jury
    • DA obligations
    • Selection of jurors
    • Example of Grand Jury cases
    • Johnson Challenge
    • Juror composition challenge
    • Unavailability of witness for trial
    • Defense advantages