Donner, Blitzen and Downward Departures in Drug and DUI cases
Posted on Dec 21, 2009 11:40pm PST
Let's just say you made the worst decision of your life and let's just say you are not getting away with it. No, I'm not talking about putting your strand of Christmas lights the wrong way around the house so that you are way opposite the plug. I'm saying, for example, given the poor economy as of late, you make the desperate and inappropriate decision to sell your medication to pay for gas to drive to an interview. We'll the person you sold it to is an undercover cop and your busted. Or let's just say you just landed your second DUI in six years.
We'll tough guy twenty something prosecutor wants to put you away. What do you do. Finding the right criminal defense attorney like the Roden Law Firm can make all the difference. Wether your in Ft. Pierce, Port St. Lucie, Jensen Beach, Stuart, Vero Beach, Sebastian, Melbourne or Titusville, we've great relationships with psychologists. A good psychologist can write a report suggesting a downward departure of your sentence based upon medical and psychological problems you may have. So, if the statutes and prosecutor said three years for the sale, the report or testimony of your psychologist might make it "start beginning to look a lot like Christmas" by getting your sentence substantially reduced. The same goes for multiple DUI's or those involving an accident.
So Ho, Ho, Ho and off to the psychologist you go. Santa's reindeer; the North Pole psychologists and the right lawyer can be a great help.