New York Criminal Lawyers Blog

As a New York criminal defense lawyer, I have successfully defended numerous criminal cases involving allegations of sex crimes. The New York Criminal Procedure Law gives any person charged with a felony the right to a felony hearing. At a New York felony hearing, also called a felony examination, the State of New York must prove that there are reasonable grounds to believe that a felony has occurred.

Demanding the felony hearing is an important method to test the case against a New York sex crimes lawyer's client and to cross examine the witnesses at an early stage. Normally in felony practice the New York criminal defense lawyer does not have the ability to question witnesses against the defendant until trial. The felony hearing allows the New York criminal defense lawyer handling a rape chare or other sex crime to gain valuable insight into the case at an early stage and better prepare for trial. Also the witnesses at this stage have not been prepared by the prosecutor, so the experienced criminal defense lawyer can pin down the witness' story before it has been coaxed by a prosecutor.

Also, the New York felony hearing forces the prosecutor into a contested hearing and often exposes weakness in the case early on. In a recent major felony sex crime case in Westchester, our New York sex crime lawyers successfully challenged the case at a felony hearing so successfully that the sex crime charges were voluntarily withdrawn by the prosecutor.

In a felony sex crime case in New York, which is headed for trial, the felony hearing is an important tool that every New York criminal defense attorney should utilize.

New York criminal defense lawyers must keep up with the changing times. Now a days people put tremendous amounts of information on their social media sites, such as facebook, twitter, high five and other sites.

Often complaining witnesses in criminal cases where there is a relationship involved such as assault, domestic violence and sex crimes often discuss their accusations on their personal sites. On more than one occasion, our New York criminal defense lawyers have found information on social media sites that directly contradicted the claims which the complaining witness made in sworn Court documents.

In one particular case involving allegations of domestic violence, assault and criminal contempt, our New York criminal defense lawyers found a blog where the complaining actually bragged about making false accusations of domestic violence to have her husband arrested. Our New York criminal defense lawyers won a complete acquital, with the prosectuor moving to dismiss all charges once our creative criminal defense lawyers exposed the blogs.

New York criminal defense lawyers should investigate the social media sites of the complaining witnesses and they may yield evidence that cannot be found anywhere else. Often little things can go a long way towards getting New York juries to render a not guilty verdict.