WHY DO YOU PRACTICE CRIMINAL DEFENSE? (video)

WHY DO YOU PRACTICE CRIMINAL DEFENSE? (video)


Adam Farkas, a partner in the law practice of Farkas & Crowley of West Palm Beach, Florida, discusses the reasons they focus on criminal defense for their law practice and their clients. He discusses the “business model” of the criminal justice system and the Catch-22 that defendants find themselves facing after they’re arrested makes them fight harder for criminal defense.

Both attorneys, Adam Farkas and Jacqueline Crowley, have considerable experience and strong legal backgrounds. Together they serve their clients in both criminal defense and family law cases. As Jacqueline says, you are getting two lawyers for the price of one.

Transcript:

“I practice criminal defense because I love my clients and I like to keep the government in check. Criminal defense is a horrible, horrible business model. If I was in it for the money, we would sue people. Think about the catch-22. Ninety percent of people commit crimes because they don’t have anything. The kids that are on the block, it’s because they don’t have a chance, so 90% of people that are possessing the drugs and getting arrested, they’re poor. Here this person gets arrested and criminal defense would expect them to have thousands of dollars liquid to pay our services. Had they had those thousands of dollars liquid, they wouldn’t have committed the crime in the first place, so it’s a very horrible catch-22 for a business model.

We do criminal defense because we see how terrible our system is. We see how much our rights are violated every day. I’m not one of these true believers, but what people don’t understand is US – the United States isn’t part of the [01:05] Convention. We’re not part of the international courts, and there’s a reason for that. It’s because our Bureau of Prisons and just our everyday criminal justice system is considered inhumane and barbaric. Other countries do not use solitary confinement the way we do. They do not lock people up and not let them have family contact except through a screen.

It’s gotten so bad of what goes on in the prisons that it’s considered almost barbaric of some of things that go on in our jails and prisons. Come to find out, most of those things are just normal policies and procedures. Oh, you curse at a deputy, 60 days in the hole with no human contact, nothing to – no magazines, no books, nothing to keep your mind straight. You got to believe the – and understand the damage that gets done on an individual basis for somebody sitting in custody who is in the hole for 60 days with nothing to do. You see the deterioration. You see how much it changes a person overall.

It’s amazing the statistics if you know that, if somebody is incarcerated, even in the local jail, for 10 days or more, their recidivism rate goes up about 70%. Their life is usually completely thrown off track. The people are arrested. They can’t pay their rent if they’re in custody for 10 days. They lose their car. They lose their home. What they experience by being incarcerated for 10 days they find completely changes a person. They found that that is – that’s a significant deadline they notice in getting people out on bond or anything like that. They have determined that just 10 days in jail will completely alter that person’s life.”

Criminal Defense in West Palm Beach

Farkas & Crowley are dedicated criminal defense attorneys who understand the needs of someone under investigation or arrest. They will fight to protect your rights, defend you against the charges, and stand up for you in court.

From our office in West Palm Beach, we help people both throughout Palm Beach County and the state of Florida. Clients are welcome to meet us in our offices, as well as outside, such as at home, your workplace, or in a public place like a coffee shop. We also meet clients through virtual meetings which can be conducted from anywhere.



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