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CRIMINAL & CIVIL INVESTIGATIONS
Both investigations require a different approach.
Whether it is doing a background search or
finding and interviewing potential reliable
witnesses for criminal and civil purposes.
This may require checking for alibis, witness
statements, looking for extenuating circumstances
to aid the defendant. Examine police reports,
identify witnesses who gave previous statements
to officers and possibly perjured themselves.
Maybe your potential witness may have extensive
previous raps sheets of his or her own.
Most criminal defendants are indigent and
represented by a public defender attorney.
It is easy to say that the public defender’s
quality of service as a public defender is
about as good as what the client paid for.
Conversely most lawyers serving an indigent
client are not paid a fee that will cover
their true out of pocket expenses.
In civil investigations
you may be searching
for assets, fraud,
proof of breach of
contract,
negligence, perjury,
to locate or to interview
witnesses. Sometimes
you need surveillance
to help build evidence
for an Attorney’s
case.
We provide strict
obedience to your
attorney’s
instructions and
knowledge of the
rules of
evidence coupled
to the court rules
of procedure.
On our home page
you will find other
areas
we specialize in.
Most of these specialties
intermingle with
civil investigations.
The
techniques may vary
but the approach
may
be similar.
A good attorney should
be active in securing
evidence to prove
his case or acquire
evidence
for a client. Look
at recent high profile
cases. The amount
of money spent for
outside
investigations must
have been very high.
Unless your attorney
orders these investigations
you run the risk
of losing your case.
The
second problem is
that most investigations
require clients to
pay a retainer up
front
just like a good
attorney will require
a
portion of his fee
to be paid in advance.
If you do not have
the funds available,
then
you need to ask your
attorney for a list
of the issues involved.
Ask him what evidence
or proof he needs
to prepare your case.
You
then can go to a
law library and find
the
elements needed for
that particular issue.
Call any potential
witness and ask for
his/her
input. If they can
furnish statements
benefiting
your position, then
ask for them to sign
their statements.
Take photos, camcorder
and tape recorder
evidence. Do not
try and
edit your recorded
devices, but put
on a
time date stamp and
an address to verify
the location on all.
(Location verification
can be made by taking
an up close photo
of
a landmark, address
or building that
was
in your original
photo).
One other word of
(non legal) advice:
Young
attorneys lose cases
they should not have
lost. Old attorneys
win cases they should
not have won.
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Howards of Colorado
765 South Alton Way,
Suite 6A
Denver, CO 80247
303-813-9586 (Office)
720-352-1315 (Cell)
Email: howardinv@livewirenet.com
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