The Role of Criminal Defense Attorney
 

The United States Constitution and the constitutions of each state protect the individual rights cherished by each American. Without criminal defense attorneys to represent defendants accused of crimes, those rights would be completely eroded.

Constitutional rights remind us, with the force of law, that individual human beings have inherent dignity and worth and that the authority of the state to take a person's life, liberty, and property is limited. When the government, be it municipal, state, or federal, brings its enormous power to bear against an individual person, and when the accusation is such that the public forgets the presumption of innocence, the accused person's last hope is the criminal defense attorney.

The U.S. Constitution provides that a criminal defendant is entitled to an attorney if the state is trying to deprive the defendant of his or her liberty. This means that the court must appoint a criminal lawyer to represent any defendant who can't afford to hire a private criminal attorney.