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Liberty Is Precious.
It’s right up there near the top. As in: “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” It’s also the most precarious. In the criminal justice system you are about one bad minute away from loss of liberty. Loss of liberty to drive, loss of liberty to see your children, or loss of liberty in the most literal sense of incarceration. It doesn’t take much to get you there either. One “wrong place at the wrong time” or one person who is willing to say the wrong thing about you whether it is true or not.
How Does My Portland Criminal Defense Lawyer Help Protect My Liberty?
At Barry W. Engle PC we are all about your liberty. We are about protecting your rights under the law and the constitution. We are about being there when we are needed. Does that mean phone calls at 3AM? All the time. Does that mean being there physically with you when the police are trying to search your home? Done it, been there. Does it mean standing up for you in very public situations when it seems like the world is against the both of us? Most days.
What Can Barry W. Engle PC Do For Me?
If you get charged with a crime, you want to hire Barry W. Engle PC. Lots of people have: cops, doctors, ministers… Our biggest source of business is word of mouth. We represented people like they were our best friends. Then they sent their best friends, and so on…
When you hire our criminal law attorneys, here’s what is going to happen:
1. GET YOU OUT OF JAIL
2. GET TO KNOW YOU
3. GATHER INFO
4. INVESTIGATE
5. RESEARCH AND WRITE
6. PREPARE
7. NEGOTIATE
8. PRESENT
Your Liberty Is As Important to Us As It Is to You
What Is The Philosophy of Barry W. Engle PC?
Well for one, we are not here to judge. That’s somebody else’s job. Most criminal charges are based on an incident that is just a few minutes out of a person’s life. I’ve been doing this for over 20 years. I still haven’t met anybody that I couldn’t find something about them to like.
We are not in favor of crime.
It’s a common misconception, but a silly one. We are in favor of liberty and freedom and we are very passionate about it. So passionate about it that we think it is more important than the charges, the police, the prosecutor, and certainly more important than our opinion about your charges. It’s so important because if the full list of legal and constitutional rights is not afforded every accused person, then they are not guaranteed to any of us. So we don’t look at a case and say, “how can we support or discourage crime.” We look at it and say “how can we defend this person’s rights, including the right to the presumption of innocence unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Let’s talk about “presumption of innocence.”
It’s a great idea, but makes us think, “If you are presuming this guy is so innocent, how come he’s in jail right now?” It also isn’t lost on us that the same people that see a person’s booking photo on the television are going to be the jurors in a couple of months. How innocent are those jurors going to presume that he is? Don’t think for a minute that this is going to be easy. The concept of presumed innocence is huge, but it gets smaller when you stir in prejudice, racism, preconceived ideas, and a press that too often says “alleged crime” with an audible wink.
Our philosophy is simple. We want to be there to protect the rights of people when they need us most.
HOW DO I GET BARRY W. ENGLE PC ON MY SIDE?
Call our Criminal Attorney at 503-224-2171.
Your liberty is at risk. Call a Portland criminal defense lawyer at Barry W. Engle PC to protect it.