{"id":1988,"date":"2012-09-03T05:19:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T05:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/pretrial-motions\/"},"modified":"2020-10-30T20:48:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:48:49","slug":"pretrial-motions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/pretrial-motions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Trial Motions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flockoflegals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/errol_cook_esq2.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-352\" title=\"errol_cook,_esq2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flockoflegals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/errol_cook_esq2.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Common Pre-Trial Motions by Defense Attorneys<br \/>\nAfter arraignment, pre-trial and motions comes the time for trial. Most defendants are very confused about what happens before trial. One of the most important things a defense attorney can do is file \u201cPre-Trial\u201d motions. These are motions that are filed before the jury is sworn to ensure a smooth running trial. For example, the defense attorney may ask the court to admonish the prosecutor and the police from referring to the \u201cvictim\u201d as the \u201cvictim\u201d as it assumes a crime has occurred. In most cases only a defendant\u2019s guilty plea or a jury\u2019s finding of guilt can legally confer the label of \u201cvictim.\u201d Another pre-trial motion that defense counsel may ask the court to consider is to admonish the prosecutor from discrediting the defense counsel.<br \/>\nContact the Law Offices of Errol Cook today at 877-737-2004. http:\/\/www.southerncaliforniacriminalattorney.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common Pre-Trial Motions by Defense Attorneys After arraignment, pre-trial and motions comes the time for trial. Most defendants are very confused about what happens before trial. One of the most important things a defense attorney can do is file \u201cPre-Trial\u201d motions. These are motions that are filed before the jury is sworn to ensure a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[307,308],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-criminal-law-blog","tag-airport-courthouse-lawyer","tag-criminal-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5546,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/5546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}