New York Criminal Attorney Blog
Learning New York Criminal Law is often similar to learning a different language. Every legal term often has a very specific legal definition and sometimes that language can even differ from County to County. Here at the New York Criminal Defense Law Firm of Tilem & Campbell part of our mission is to help our clients understand exactly what they are facing and how the legal system works. That often means giving definitions of legal terms that lawyers, judges and other legal professionals take for granted. Our mission also requires us to know this different terminology and how it’s used in the many different Courthouses around the State.
Here at the Tilem & Campbell we are truly a New York State law firm. With two former prosecutors, Peter Tilem who spent ten years at the New York County District Attorney’s Office and Jean Melino who was an assistant district attorney in the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office and in the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, we handle cases literally throughout the state. Attorneys at this firm have appeared from Manhattan to Suffolk, Westchester to Albany, Brooklyn to Buffalo and most places in between. That experience means that our lawyers understand the legal terms as they are used throughout the State and are in a position to explain those terms to our clients.
This article is the first of a several part series in which I will define basic legal terms that our clients and others charged with a crime need to understand. Today, I will start with two very basic terms and define them is easy to understand terms. Where terms that I define in this series, have different meanings in different Courthouses I will explain that as well.