YOU NEED A LAWYER WHO IS CARING, COMMITTED AND COMPETENT
If you can manage it, you want something more than just technical competence, or experience, in a lawyer. You want someone who knows who you are and what you are going through. You want someone who will talk to you in everyday language that you understand and who you can trust to guide you through the legal maze.
You want someone who is caring and committed to your cause. Someone who will stand up for you, take you by the hand and lead you through a very scary, ugly and hostile world at a very difficult time in your life.
You must be committed to your own case. You must be willing to invest the time, the energy and -- yes -- the money necessary to pursue your case to trial in order to defend yourself and enforce your rights.
There is no pie in the sky in these days and times for people who are accused of having committed a crime. You must cooperate with your attorney. Work with your attorney. Do your part.