Educational Series — Part 1
The Heartbeat of Freedom
Educational information: This series is presented for general educational purposes and is not a substitute for advice from a qualified attorney.
This first installment introduces the S.C.A.R.S. Heartbeat of Freedom Educational Series and discusses the importance of understanding an attorney’s relevant experience, particularly when constitutional issues may be involved. The complete existing Part 1 article follows below.
“Not all lawyers are the same”
Beware of the free advice from some YouTube lawyers. It may cost you more than your time and money.
A lawyer, especially a Constitutional Law Attorney, can only espouse the limits of their experience. So if a Constitutional Law Attorney has been practicing law for 2 years, that’s the limit of the experience you get. Lawyers desiring to pursue a career in Constitutional Law should join a firm where that is their specialty OR start out in criminal law defense and focus on the Constitutional issues on their own. The entrapment there is that a lot of criminal law attorneys tend to want to fight a charge by comparing the acts of their client to the statute that they are charged with. However, a Constitutional focused Attorney will explore the Constitutional issues first, while developing a defense on those Constitutional issues, then explore a defense based on the intricacies of the statute should no Constitutional issues arise.
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