{"id":4087,"date":"2013-10-28T18:52:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T18:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/how-to-represent-yourself-in-torrance-criminal-court\/"},"modified":"2020-10-30T20:46:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:46:37","slug":"how-to-represent-yourself-in-torrance-criminal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/how-to-represent-yourself-in-torrance-criminal-court\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Represent Yourself in Torrance 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\" alt=\"Torrance Criminal Court lawyer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flockoflegals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/errol_cook_esq2.bmp\" \/><\/a>Many Torrance criminal defendants who do not want a court-appointed lawyer choose to represent themselves in criminal court. Whether the charge is a 1st-Time DUI or Murder, criminal defendants have decided to go-it-alone by researching the law and their respective defense themselves. Some of the &#8220;Pro-Per&#8221; defendants do an o.k. job representing themselves while other do not.<\/p>\n<p>Saving money initially, could cost you more in the long run. Torrance prosecutors are much less inclined to negotiate with a pro per litigant versus an experienced attorney. For example, perhaps you have a \u2018rising\u2019 defense or a \u2018calibration defense\u2019 or a \u2018Pitchess\u201d motion, how will you know without seeing the police report? How will you know if you don\u2019t have a clue on what these defenses are? Your entire may be dismissed or your fines can be reduced significantly reduced by thousands of dollars with an experienced Torrance criminal attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Errol Cook, Esq. (Torrance Criminal Defense Lawyer)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Torrance criminal defendants who do not want a court-appointed lawyer choose to represent themselves in criminal court. Whether the charge is a 1st-Time DUI or Murder, criminal defendants have decided to go-it-alone by researching the law and their respective defense themselves. Some of the &#8220;Pro-Per&#8221; defendants do an o.k. job representing themselves while other&#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":[],"class_list":["post-4087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-criminal-law-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087","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=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5334,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions\/5334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}