As someone facing criminal charges, you definitely want the law firm you hire to be well respected by the prosecutors and judges they will be appearing alongside and before. Why does this matter and how does this benefit you? San Diego Criminal defense lawyer David P. Shapiro explains in this video.
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Owner of managing partner, the law office of David P Shapiro, located in people regain control of their future. One charge with a crime in this video. I wanna answer a common question that we receive about, you know, what type of relationship do you have with prosecutors? Are you friends with the prosecutor, you know, and what effect, right. We get that question a lot and, and, you know, the, there's a couple of answers to it. So I wanna flush through it here in this video. The first thing is this, okay. A defense attorney that that's friends with, the prosecutor, you know, that, that, that that's friends with everybody. Well, you know, listen, there's some benefits to that, you know, but what you want more than anything is someone that respected by prosecutors with them. You don't need someone that, that is best friends with them, or went to law school with them.
You don't need someone that you know, is in their wedding and, and hangs out with them socially, what you want first and foremost is someone who is respected by the prosecutor's office, right? The prosecutor's office, especially where your case is going to be heard, where, who is prosecuting. You wanna make sure that they know who your defense attorney or that law firm is and that they respect them. Right? So that's something really you want to ask, you know, not, oh, how many DAS do you know, you're friends with them? Well, you know, that could really work both ways, right? It's important to be respected. It's not necessarily important that you have to be, and this big social buddy with everybody, it, because sometimes that actually backfires and sometimes attorneys get, and defense attorneys get a little hesitant to push back on a prosecutor or to get pushed back and a judge in front of a prosecutor because of the, you know, they don't wanna seem like being difficult or they don't want friends anymore.
Right? Well, that's not really their job. I mean, their job's obviously to represent their client, client, protect their client, protect their client's future, protect their client's freedom, protect their client's reputation and be their voice in court with their, with them and for them in court. Right. So more important to being friends with prosecutors is having the respect of prosecutors. That's something you want to make. Sure. Okay. Another thing is, is that, you know, on the, on the flip side is, you know, you want a lot of times people want, you know, a bulldog, ah, you aggressive, okay, well, how many websites have you seen that on right. Aggressive representation or, you know, or a bulldog relentless superior, uh, what's it premiere, you know, all this sense that everybody, that everybody markets to, right? The, these strong words, because of what TV shows or because of this reputation that you have to be for lack of better word, rude, or you have to be a jerk, or you have to be a, you know, insert a couple of curse words or, or, or a offensive nouns here, right.
In order to be a good, good defense attorney. Well, listen, you know, there times when it is appropriate to be stern, there are times when it is appropriate to be firm. There are times when it is appropriate to be short and not the most social person in the world with a judge or with a prosecutor. But that has to be calculated to the sense that is this benefiting the client, right? Because a lot of times defense attorneys will fly off the handle and they'll start yelling and screaming and whatever. But at the end of the day, if that's not serving their client, what is that doing? They're showing a lack of self control. And how is that benefiting their client? Who's pouring thousands upon thousands of dollars into them, trusting them with their freedom, their future and their reputation. Well, it's not, it's certainly not.
So you wanna make sure that the attorney and more importantly, the law firm as a whole, that you're hiring, certainly knows the courtroom, knows the judge knows the prosecutors that are going to be dealing with this case and that they have a good reputation and that they're respected first and foremost, and that they know how to handle themselves in courtroom. A verse courtroom B verse courtroom C verse, this type of case before this judge may be very different than a different type of case before that same judge. So you want a law firm that handles criminal defense exclusively.
