Outcomes of Your Court Case

Once you’ve been arrested and been bailed out, you now are focusing on your criminal case. Hopefully, you have enlisted the help of a top-notch criminal defense attorney that ASAP Bail Bonds in Gwinnett County recommends you doing when you’re arrested for a crime. Your court case should be progressing steadily, and your lawyer says it’s looking good for you.

That being said, you are still worrying about the possible outcomes of your trial. In this blog post, we’ll go over the likely outcomes of your criminal case and how ASAP Bail Bonds can help. Contact us today to get started!

POSSIBLE TRIAL OUTCOMES

• All charges are dropped against you. Obviously, this is the best case scenario that everyone who has been charged with a crime can hope for. A good criminal defense attorney definitely earned their money in this instance. This can happen because the investigation against you was flawed, the arrest was flubbed, new evidence emerges that exonerates you, or the prosecutor in your case does not have enough evidence to proceed in the charges filed against you. However, your arrest still remains in the court records, which means it will still show up on background checks. In Georgia, however, there is a law known as Record Restitution that can prevent anyone except the judicial system from discovering this fact, which is essentially sealing your arrest record from the public. This is extremely helpful for jobs, credit checks, and if you are a person of note in the community. This is good news for your bail bondsman, ASAP Bail Bonds in Gwinnett County, who now will get all of their money back that they put up for you to gain your freedom during your trial.

• Plea bargaining. Another reason to hire a great criminal defense attorney is if you have to plea bargain. Plea bargaining is effectively negotiating a guilty plea in exchange for a lighter sentence and/or a lesser charge that leads to a lighter sentence. This most likely your scenario since the vast overwhelming majority of cases are plea bargained. This is because court cases that go to trial not only take a long time, but they are extremely costly. Furthermore, the outcome is indeterminable, and sometimes the prosecutor wants to ensure you are punished in some way for your crime(s). As soon as your jury trial is over, your local bail bondsman, ASAP Bail Bonds, is free to retrieve their money as well.
• Jury trial. In the United States of America, you have the right to a trial by your peers (known as a jury) by the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution. However, the outcome is unpredictable as it is up to the jury who all have differing opinions on everything to decide. Furthermore, jury trials take a long time, and you often pay your defense lawyer not only for their time, but also for motions filed and other miscellaneous tasks. Hence trials are expensive for you. It is almost always better to plea bargain unless there is no better alternative than to try to prove your innocence in a court of law.

THE BAIL PROCESS IN GWINNETT COUNTY

Once you are arrested, your to-do list just doubled, or sometimes even tripled, in size. From getting out of jail through ASAP Bail Bonds’ stellar bail bonds service to attending court hearings, you’ve got a lot to do besides doing whatever you were doing before. ASAP Bail Bonds help those in Gwinnett County get the first step out of the way — getting out of jail. You form an agreement with us by paying us a certain percentage of your bail as a fee, or premium, and then we pay the full bail amount for you. We are here to offer helpful advice. Contact us today!