Phoenix Criminal Attorney Answers Questions on High Profile Defendant Representation

If you are a public figure or simply demand privacy when dealing with your criminal matter, please contact The Feldman Law Firm, PLLC. You may visit him online at http://www.afphoenixcriminalattorney.com or reach out to him directly at (602) 540-7887.

Adam answers the following questions in this Google Hangout.

1. When representing high-profile clients, is there a way to protect their identity?

2. I am a non-attorney that represents athletes in various capacities. When they need a criminal attorney, I need to ensure that privacy is a big priority. Can you accomplish this?

3. Have you represented any high-profile clients before? If so, who?

4. Does the nature of the crime affect the level of privacy that can be obtained?

Transcript:
- We're with Adam Feldman. Adam is a criminal defense attorney in Phoenix, Arizona. He's agreed to answer some online questions. These questions are specifically related to high profile types of clients. Adam, with that said, let's go into the first question that was posted. When representing high profile clients, is there a way to protect their identity?

- Well, Ryan, it depends on the type of case. Certain cases, they're so high profile to start that it's much tougher, while other cases, you can definitely keep them under the radar. For example, if... with the more violent crimes, the things that hit the media before anybody even hires an attorney, at that point, it's already out there. It's in the media, and then later on somebody comes and hires me. The best thing we can do at that point, we try to put a gag order on the press, we can try to remove the press from the courtroom, and there are several different techniques that are successful in removing the press from the courtroom, and that's important because if your client's in custody, the last thing you want is that evening, they're on the news in stripes. I mean, nobody wants to see that. So those are the more high profile, violent types of cases. That said, there are a lot of cases that happen to high profile clients, athletes, actors, things like that, that aren't as high profile. For example, DUIs or domestic violence, things like that. Depending on how early the client contacts you, and a lot of times, the client will have a connection with you for other cases or other types of legal matters, they get in touch with me that evening. If that's the case, the best thing we do to try to avoid the media getting involved is to keep them out of jail, and if we can get in there early, we're very successful. So once somebody is booked, that photograph goes out there and it's public information and it's all over the place, but if a client is not booked, if we can work out a way where they can be cited and released, or at least if the police officer can hold onto this for a little bit and take it through charging through the prosecutor before they're booked, it makes a huge difference. There's so much more we can do on the front end. The other way that, after somebody has either been arrested or cited, is we can waive their appearance at a lot of the hearings. So oftentimes we have clients who the last thing they want is to be seen in court. I've had cases where the client has never had to step foot in the actual courtroom, so the press shows up, but they're not there, and then maybe on the final setting, they're doing something over the phone, so... the media doesn't want to put that on TV, so that's something that really helps maintain the privacy for these clients.

- Okay, excellent. The next question is actually pretty specific, but it does cover a similar topic. I'm a non-attorney that represents athletes in various capacities when they need a criminal attorney. I need to ensure that privacy is a big priority. Can you accomplish this?

- And so, yeah, it's a similar question, more specific. The answer is, it depends. Like I said, I've represented athletes before where of the 15 hearings that went on, they weren't present at a single hearing and then only on the last hearing did they appear, but they appeared telephonically. The news and the media never even caught wind of that because, as I discussed with the last question, they were never booked into jail so there was no booking photo, and they don't show up at any of the hearings, so if anybody was following them, it's not as if they're following them to court and it becomes this big story. So that's the easiest way to protect a client's anonymity. If it becomes high-level profile, you think of your O.J. Simpson case where it made the news first, really at that point, the initial damage is done, the best you can do is to try to keep the press out of the courtroom after that, and we've been successful with that, as well.

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3200 N Central Ave # 1850
Phoenix, AZ 85004
(602) 540-7887

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