This
blog is being prepared as a public service by the Attorney Vincent J. Sanzone,Jr., and is not meant for specific legal advice. In the event that you are charged with a
crime, disorderly persons offense or misdemeanor you are directed to seek the
legal advice of an experienced and acknowledgeable New Jersey criminal defenseattorney.
Often
it is asked what makes a good criminal defense trial lawyer, and what does it take to
convince a judge or jury that your client is innocent, or that state or
government has presented a case with reasonable doubt in which the law requires
an acquittal, or a finding of not guilty.
The
first thing that the attorney must be is real, when I say real, I mean that you must present yourself to a judge and jury in such a way, that judge or jury
perceives the attorney as actually believing in his client’s innocence, or in
the alternative that the reasonable doubt is in fact real and present and that
it would be a miscarriage of justice to render a verdict of guilty on the facts
presented by the prosecutor.
How
can a judge or jury give the benefit of doubt, which is reasonable doubt to the
defendant, if the attorney who knowns the defendant best, acts and speaks as if
he could care less about the outcome, and is only going through the motions. Yes emotions do count, and most people in
fact live most of their life through emotional responses. Few people look at things totally
analytically and logically. Yes jurors
and judges are no different. Passion and
dedication do matter, and attorneys who fail to dig down deep to their core
being will not be able to convince the jury of their client’s side of the story. Yes every defendant needs their side of the story to be told, and it is only his or her attorney that can do that through opening statements, cross-examination, presenting of defense witnesses and summations. Yes a true criminal defense
attorney who wins cases will have three things at his disposable, mind, heart
and soul.
Quote of the Day
Philosophy
and theology are blueprints for life which can tell us right from wrong. Although most people wrongly think that
science and history can do just that, to wit, give us a moral framework which
it cannot. A hammer (science) can help
you to build a church (history), but the hammer can’t tell you want the church
should look like or what message will be taught in the church. Only when we
adhere to solid moral teaching can we be assured of not repeating history and
making the same awful mistakes.
Law
Office of Vincent J. Sanzone, Jr., Esq.
New
Jersey Criminal Defense Attorney with 26-years of successful trial experience.
Union, Hudson, Middlesex, Essex, Ocean, Monmouth Counties and others.
Elizabeth,
N.J. www.criminaldefensenj.com
(908)
3540-7007
