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BE CAREFUL WHO YOU HIRE AS YOUR LAWYER - HE MAY NOT BE A LAWYER AT ALL

By Walin & Klarich

When you or a loved one are facing a criminal charge you are in a vulnerable position. There are many people who will take advantage of that vulnerability. There are even those who will pretend to be a lawyer and make promises that they could never keep in order to get your trust and more importantly for them, your money. A recent case reported in the Los Angeles Daily Journal is a good example of that. One elderly woman in Los Angeles paid a man who told her that he was an experienced criminal lawyer $22,000. She was promised that in return for this payment of $22,000 he would see to it that her husband who was doing a sentence of 25 years to life for a murder would be released from prison. The "masquerading lawyer" went so far as to tell her that her husband would be released from prison on an exact date and she could pick him up at the train station on that date...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on March 27, 2008 (boomark / email).