If you have been arrested and are facing criminal charges in Cedar Hill, you are entitled to a defense by a lawyer. A potential criminal conviction requires swift and decisive action.
A Cedar Hill criminal defense lawyer at the Law Offices of Randall B. Isenberg can protect your legal rights and defend you against criminal charges.
We Can Help You Fight to Minimize the Impact of a Criminal Conviction
Being arrested for a crime might be embarrassing and stressful. It might also derail your personal, professional, and social life. When you are arrested, you should take steps to protect and preserve your good name as soon as possible.
Our team works hard to protect your name and your potential loss of freedom. Defending yourself from the societal impact of a criminal conviction can be a time-consuming and complex problem. Our team has familiarity with Texas law that helps us work with you to negotiate pleas and sentence reductions that give you a chance to start over.
Criminal Penalties
When criminal convictions incur financial penalties, it might create a financial challenge that affects your entire family. In addition, if conviction leads to incarceration or imprisonment, it separates you from society and your family. According to the Texas Politics Project, possible criminal and financial penalties in Cedar Hill include:
- First-degree felony: Possible $10,000 fine, plus up to 99 years in prison
- Second-degree felony: Possible $10,000 fine, plus up to 20 years in prison
- Third-degree felony: Possible $10,000 fine, plus up to 10 years in prison
- State jail felony: Possible $10,000 fine, plus up to 2 years of incarceration
- Class A misdemeanor: Possible $4,000 fine, plus up to a year of incarceration
- Class B misdemeanor: Possible $2,000 fine, plus up to 6 months of incarceration
- Class C misdemeanor: Possible $500 fine
Incarceration or imprisonment may be difficult to cope with mentally and emotionally and might have a similar negative impact on your family and friends. The forced separation might also be difficult to explain to young children or on a future resume. Our criminal defense team helps you limit this societal impact of a conviction.
Societal Penalties
The sooner you put our team to work for you, the more time we have to investigate your arrest and ward off the damage of a conviction. Potential employers and landlords may request background checks that uncover a previous conviction. In addition, a criminal conviction may put you in an uncomfortable position where you are forced to:
- Explain gaps in your resume
- Explain blemishes on a background check
- Limit your housing choices
- Limit your higher education options
In addition, some criminal convictions might create social stigmas that make everyday and community life difficult. When you are ready to get the ardent defense you deserve and are entitled to, a Cedar Hill criminal defense lawyer at the Law Offices of Randall B. Isenberg can get to work for you.
Put Our Team to Work on Your Defense Right Away
We work hard for each client we defend. Our goal is to get you back to your friends and family with as little criminal damage as possible. Some results we have achieved for previous clients include:
- DWI sentence reductions and dismissals
- Probation violation withdrawn and discharged
- Burglary of a building charges dismissed
- Theft felony reduced to a misdemeanor
- Deferred probation for assault with bodily injury charges
- Deferred probation for possession of controlled substance charges
Understand Your Rights and Responsibilities
When our team works on your defense, we listen to your story with compassion and understanding—and without judgment. We also listen for details that may help us build a successful defense.
While listening to the circumstances of your arrest, we scrutinize the details to ensure you were read your rights in full, and in a language you understand, according to Texas Code of Criminal Procedure §38.22. Failure to fully inform you of your rights or to abide by them might let us fight for a dismissal of the charges against you.
We also make sure there was probable cause for the police to arrest you in the first place, according to the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure §14.03. We carefully examine police behavior and investigation methods, witness statements, and searches to identify any errors that may work in your favor.
Let Our Attorneys Help You Fight for Your Future
With more than 30 years of experience as a former prosecutor and state district judge, Cedar Hill criminal defense lawyer, Randall B Isenberg, may help you question the validity of your arrest and fight back to protect your legal rights. Contact the criminal defense team at the Law Offices of Randall B. Isenberg by calling (214) 696-9253 to start fighting for your future right now.
