Failure to understand one’s legal rights can lead to self-incrimination, false confessions, eyewitness misidentification and wrongful convictions. Having an attorney can avoid the above negative consequences, all the while protecting your legal rights throughout the criminal process.

False and coerced confessions are made by innocent individuals during police interrogations. There are documented cases where innocent people were sent to prison based on a false confession.

When two or more people make a plan to commit a criminal act, they are guilty of conspiracy. It only takes one action on behalf of one of the actors to further such crime, for any of the conspirators to be criminally convicted of conspiracy.

Individuals who partake in a “conspiracy” to commit a crime can be criminally prosecuted – even if the crime never took place. In the state of New York, punishment for conspiracy can range from six months in jail to life imprisonment.

In New York City, along with every other big city nationwide, drugs have become a growing problem on the streets as well as in schools.

In a town filled with thousands of pedestrians, tourists and motor vehicles including taxis, it is nearly unavoidable to be involved in an accident at some point in your life.