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Who Needs A Criminal Attorney?
By Behzad Mahmoudi, Fri Dec 9th

The fact is that in day-to-day life we are facing continued andhidden dangers that can happen at any time. In case we encounterany danger by a person that we have to use force against theperson for self-defense or protect somebody else, we might facecriminal charge.

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At this point, a criminal defense attorney's job starts. Forhim, it does not matter who you are and what you have done. Hetries to prove to the jury or judge that you had to use forceagainst the other person for self-defense. In fact a criminaldefense attorney must show the judge that you were in danger ofpossible physical hurt and you had use that amount of force toprevent the hurt. It is a criminal defense attorney's job toprove that the force against you was not legal and you wereunaware of that.

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If you are under attack, even by close relatives, and begging,pleading, and crying may not get you out of the grip, then youmay use force to defend yourself. There are many cases thatwomen are under attack by their husbands and for self-defensepurpose they kill their husbands. But these women should takeinto consideration the fact that there are serious questionsthat they should answer in order to prove that the force used bythem was a self-defense otherwise they will face serious chargeswith irrecoverable consequences. For example they might bequestioned why did not they leave husband and live with arelative or friend before the incident? Or why did not they filefor divorce?

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Here, your criminal defense attorney prepares you to answerthese types of questions. Generally, depending on the case andconditions, a criminal defense attorney prepares a series ofquestions that might be asked by jury or judge and then he triesto find answers to those questions. The answers



should convincethe judge that you were in a situation of physical harm andtherefore to avoid the harm, you used a certain amount of force,in which your criminal defense attorney tries to prove theamount of force was reasonable.

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To summarize what we have discussed, if you are accused of acrime, then you need to hire a criminal defense attorney torepresent you and prove to the jury or judge that the force youused was necessary and reasonable.

About the author:Behzad Mahmoudi writes about different issues including criminal defenseattorney subject in his weblog.

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