{"id":2481,"date":"2012-12-26T20:06:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T20:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/representing-yourself-criminal-court\/"},"modified":"2020-10-30T20:48:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:48:50","slug":"representing-yourself-criminal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/representing-yourself-criminal-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Representing Yourself in Criminal Court"},"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>Many people choose to represent themselves in criminal courts due to a lack of money.\u00a0 Often times these &#8220;Pro Per&#8221; litigants will convince themselves that they are just as good and just as competent as any criminal lawyer.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u00a0have seen Pro Per\u00a0criminal defendants time and time again\u00a0all the while cringing at their blatant lack of knowledge of courtroom conduct, procedure and misunderstanding of the law.<\/p>\n<p>DUI is the most common case in which most criminal defendants\u00a0represent themselves.\u00a0 Most \u00a0DUI defendants who represent themselves (&#8220;Pro Per&#8221;) fail to understand the nuances of their probation terms and the possible defenses to the charges.\u00a0 Since most Pro Per defendants aren&#8217;t given a copy of the police report at their arraignment, they do not know the strongest arguments for reducing the sanctions and\/or the best arguments and strategies to get the DUI charges dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>The best advice is to hire an experienced DUI attorney to represent you in court.<\/p>\n<p>Errol Cook, Esq. (562) 209-1114<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Representing Yourself in Criminal Court\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southerncaliforniacriminalattorney.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">errolcooklaw.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people choose to represent themselves in criminal courts due to a lack of money.\u00a0 Often times these &#8220;Pro Per&#8221; litigants will convince themselves that they are just as good and just as competent as any criminal lawyer.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u00a0have seen Pro Per\u00a0criminal defendants time and time again\u00a0all the while cringing at their blatant lack of&#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":[19,5,20],"tags":[22,23,250,7,35,81,86,401,402,32],"class_list":["post-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-criminal-law-blog","category-california-dui-law-blog","category-california-traffic-ticket-blog","tag-criminal-defense","tag-dmv","tag-driving-without-a-license","tag-dui","tag-failure-to-appear","tag-felony","tag-misdemeanor","tag-pro-per-in-dui-courts","tag-representing-yourself","tag-vehicle-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","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=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5495,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions\/5495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}