In many serious criminal cases where the evidence against our clients is overwhelming, the best course of action is to plead guilty early and proceed the matter to Sentencing. In those cases, our clients will not only receive a maximum discount on the sentence (generally 25%) but also sympathy and leniency from the Court, and very often, our clients avoid a jail sentence as the result.
For example, whilst these defences are readily available for most of the range of assaults (i.e. Common Assault, Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm, Assaulting a Police Officer and Reckless Wounding), these become increasingly difficult to raise successfully especially in the most serious of assaults – Inflicting Grievous Bodily Harm With Intent. Of course our clients could still choose to defend such a charge and have the matter proceed to trial at the District Court but we must advise our clients of the benefits of an early plea.
Our criminal lawyers could then negotiate on our clients’ behalf an early plea to a possibly lesser charge coupled with a favourable set of the Agreed Facts that would work to your advantage at the Sentencing.
For sentencing, we would be able to advise you on the appropriate content to include in reference letters, to help you get in touch with the relevant medical and mental health authorities to obtain medical evidence and to ensure you enrol and participate in the relevant educational courses and counselling to demonstrate to the Court your remorse about your offending behaviour, your commitment to rehabilitate and to not reoffend.
Negotiation, strategy and experience from our criminal lawyers are the difference we strive to deliver in achieving results such as achieving a Section 10 Charge Dismissal for drug possession offences, a Good Behaviour Bond for drug supply offences, an Intensive Correction Order for large commercial cannabis cultivation offences.