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YOUR RIGHTS

Know Your Rights:

• Right to an Attorney: You have the right to an attorney during all legal proceedings against you.  You have the right to an attorney during any questioning process or investigation process prior to even being charged with a crime.  The Court will appoint an attorney for defendants charged with crimes that cannot afford to hire one.  At the end of the case you will probably be asked to pay all or part of the costs of that court appointed attorney depending upon your ability to pay.

• Right to Jury Trial: You have the right to a trial by jurors from the community.  At the trial, the defendant is presumed innocent and cannot be found guilty until 6 fair jurors unanimously have been convinced beyond a reasonable doubt as to guilt.  This is the highest burden of proof in our justice system.

• Right to Confront Witnesses: A defendant has the right to confront, otherwise known as cross examination, all witnesses testifying against them.  This is the defendant’s turn to bring out points in your favor and expose any issues of credibility that a particular witness may have.

• Right against Self-Incrimination (Fifth Amendment): You have the right to remain silent.  That means that you do not have to talk to the police if you do not want to.  You can never be forced to testify against yourself or divulge information that would incriminate you.  In a trial a defendant has the right to take the stand in his/her own defense or in the alternative to decide to remain silent before a jury.  Jurors are instructed that the law requires that they not hold it against a defendant for deciding not to testify.  This is a guaranteed constitutional right that we all share.

Being charged with a crime is devastating.
 

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