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Criminal Lawyers · Memphis, TN
If you have just been charged with a misdemeanor for the first time — a citation handed to you at the scene, or a night at 201 Poplar you never expected — the questions come fast. Will I go to jail? Will this be on my record forever? Do I need a lawyer for something […]
The first setting on a first charge is where most of the damage gets done, and it gets done politely. A prosecutor offers something reasonable, the courtroom is moving fast, and a person who has never been arrested takes the offer because it sounds like the case is over. It is not over. Five years […]
A domestic assault arrest in the middle of a divorce is two cases pretending to be one. The criminal case is in General Sessions, usually the Division 10 domestic violence courtroom. The divorce is in Circuit or Chancery. Different judges, different rules, different lawyers — and everything said or agreed in one courtroom is evidence […]