Aug 08

Murder – Manslaughter

Tag: Criminal LawAndrew @ 12:00 am

The prosecution of murder and manslaughter cases often depends on accurate, verifiable eyewitness identification of the perpetrator. My experience as a criminal defense trial attorney has taught me that eyewitness testimony is more often shown to be unreliable than reliable. Traditionally, the police, the public and the courts highly regard the word of eyewitnesses. It takes an experienced criminal defense trial attorney like me through cross-examination of the eyewitness that the identification that was made of my client was inaccurate or wrong.

Prime evidence that the police and the prosecuting attorney depend upon is the physical evidence that was collected at the crime scene and the analysis of such. Being the lead crime scene investigator for the Miami-Dade County Police Department before entering law school has provided me with an in-depth knowledge of how the police conduct crime scene investigations and how prosecutors prepare their cases for trial using this evidence. It takes an experienced criminal defense trial attorney, through cross-examination of the crime scene investigators and the individuals that analyzed the evidence that the evidence was properly collected and analyzed. If it can be shown that it was not, their testimony creates reasonable doubt about the case which the jury must consider.

Andrew Boros, Esq
Florida Attorney at Law

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