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A criminal defense attorney represents clients who are facing criminal charges in either felony or misdemeanor cases.

As there are a myriad of criminal charges that can be filed against individuals and corporations, criminal defense attorneys can choose to specialize in certain areas like, for instance, criminal tax litigation. Those that do not choose to specialize, however, will be faced with a never-ending array of cases that will touch on different aspects of the law and that will force the criminal defense attorney to develop an extremely large knowledge base.

From drug cases to immigration issues to fraud cases, criminal defense lawyers will face all sorts of situations in court and must be prepared to represent their clients in all of them. Drug cases can range from something as relatively simple as being in possession of a controlled substance to something as complex as drug trafficking on an international scale, while immigration issues, on the other hand, will mainly concern situations where an illegal alien has been accused or convicted of criminal activity. Fraud cases comprise the so-called “white collar” crimes, and the criminal defense lawyer who represents a client who has been accused of fraud would do well to have skills in both accounting and forensic accounting as well as criminal litigation.

Further areas in which criminal defense lawyers often ply their trade would include domestic violence cases, juvenile cases and probation violations. In cases of alleged domestic abuse, one of the more important factors to consider would be whether the client’s accuser has actually been the victim of abuse or whether the accusation is, perhaps, just another chess move in a game of divorce or separation. Juvenile cases run the gamut from defacing property to murder and have to be handled with extreme care as juvenile convictions can often weigh heavily against a repeat offender. Probation violations – although these may seem rather simple compared to other criminal cases – are, in some states, divided between misdemeanor probation violations and felony probation violations, and these cases can sometimes become extremely complex.

A criminal defense attorney represents a client who, under the law, is considered innocent until proven guilty. As such, whatever he may believe about his client’s actual guilt or innocence must be set aside for the duration of the case, and he must always use every possible resource to defend him to the best of his ability.