{"id":2484,"date":"2012-12-24T09:12:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T09:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/los-angeles-criminal-courts-simplified\/"},"modified":"2020-10-30T20:48:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:48:30","slug":"los-angeles-criminal-courts-simplified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/los-angeles-criminal-courts-simplified\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Criminal Courts &#8230;..Simplified"},"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>Criminal courts can be intimidating and unfamiliar to many people.\u00a0 In fact, the closest many people have gotten to a criminal courtroom is through television.<\/p>\n<p>In criminal courts each side is generally represented by a lawyer.\u00a0 The prosecutor is usually a\u00a0City Attorney or District Attorney.\u00a0 The criminal defendant is usually represented by a lawyer from the Public Defender&#8217;s Office or a Private Attorney.\u00a0 In some cases criminal defendants may chose to represent themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Los Angeles Court System\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flockoflegals.com\/california-courts\/los-angeles-county-courts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles County criminal justice system<\/a> stretches from <a title=\"Malibu Courthouse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flockoflegals.com\/california-courts\/los-angeles-county-courts\/malibu-courthouse-malibu-traffic-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Malibu<\/a> to <a title=\"Lancaster Court\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flockoflegals.com\/california-courts\/los-angeles-county-courts\/lancaster-courthouse-lancaster-traffic-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lancaster<\/a>.\u00a0 Each courthouse within the county has its own way (culture) of dealing with criminal cases.\u00a0 In fact, a criminal conviction in one courthouse may result in simple probation whereas another courthouse jail time and probation is the norm.<\/p>\n<p>Errol Cook, Esq. (562) 209-1114<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"L.A. Criminal Courts...Simplified\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southerncaliforniacriminalattorney.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">errolcooklaw.com\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criminal courts can be intimidating and unfamiliar to many people.\u00a0 In fact, the closest many people have gotten to a criminal courtroom is through television. In criminal courts each side is generally represented by a lawyer.\u00a0 The prosecutor is usually a\u00a0City Attorney or District Attorney.\u00a0 The criminal defendant is usually represented by a lawyer from&#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":[19,5,126],"tags":[33,106,22,6,68,250,7,35,10],"class_list":["post-2484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-criminal-law-blog","category-california-dui-law-blog","category-california-restraining-order-blog","tag-40509-5-holds","tag-child-abuse-central-index","tag-criminal-defense","tag-criminal-law","tag-deportation","tag-driving-without-a-license","tag-dui","tag-failure-to-appear","tag-traffic-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484","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=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5500,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions\/5500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}