MORE CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE FALSELY ACCUSED

“Winning isn't everything, it is the ONLY thing!” (Vince Lombardi – Green Bay Packers Head Coach repeat Superbowl champion)

False allegations of child abuse, domestic violence, marital rape and others have become de rigueur for modern American divorces. In many of the cases the abuses are real. But in some of them they are not. This page is devoted to the wrongful accusations.

If you have been wrongly accused, or know someone who has been accused of a form of child abuse or child sexual abuse or even domestic violence or rape, this is the appropriate source for you. It is our aim to offer you the essential information from which to decide if you need our services. Most people who are wrongly accused have very naive views of how the legal system operates. Most folks, knowing they are innocent, believe, mistakenly, that the people within the system can just tell that they didn't do what they are accused of. Few people recognize the real problems they face. That failure is in underestimating the danger that they face and it is the biggest pitfall for the wrongly accused. It is the failure to recognize that not every "official" is honest and looking for the truth that can prove a legally fatal error. Most people will believe a lawyer regardless of how obviously wrong their advice may be. Non-lawyers can give bad advice. But bad advice isn't confined to just non-lawyers. A sad reality is that many lawyers don't know what they don't know about these cases, are the most dangerous purveyors of bad advice. Bad advice doesn’t come cheap. And it often comes from those who cloak themselves in the aura of alleged knowledge.

Let's start at the beginning. According to the National District Attorney's Association there is a conviction rate of over 95% in the cases of this type, and a dismissal rate lower than for most other crimes. Also, in this area there is a much higher rate of plea-bargains. There are lots of reasons this situation occurs. Some of it is the fault of the accused, and much of which is the fault of the legal advice they receive, and the hidden agendas of people in the system. Many accused people fall victim to the "Now is not the time syndrome" which so permeates the practice of law on this kind of case as to be an epidemic. There is an abundance of do nothing lawyers who ask huge fees before the case is tried and lost or worse yet, large fees charged and no work done on the case and at the last minute the client is brow beaten to take a plea bargain. That type of lawyer never makes any real efforts to have the case dismissed early. There is also the fact that 90% of the lawyers who advertise as criminal defense lawyers will never take a case to a successful trial conclusion in their entire careers. Their success is in badgering their clients to accept plea bargains even when totally innocent.

There is one winning strategy. That is to immediately go on the attack, to begin amassing evidence to show that you didn't do what you are accused of. This is something you never want to "wait" for. The advice to wait is always bad advice. You are likely in the case of an allegation of child sexual abuse, for example, to face what we coined as the "Three Ring Circus." The divorce court, juvenile court (dependency), and criminal court. Today a fourth ring has been added in most parts of the country, the domestic violence courts. In most jurisdictions in America the bail is typically set very high. From $250,000 to over a million dollars or it is denied altogether. There is no practical way to have you tested and prepare evidence of your innocence if you are locked up. Of course the big money for lawyers and defense teams is in going to trial. By making no effort to have the charges dismissed, a trial and the big income for the lawyers and teams is virtually insured. Go along with doing nothing if you wish to support a law office for the next year or two.

You need to act as soon as you have knowledge that an allegation is on its way, don't wait until the freight train has killed you. Remember all those movies with the people stranded on the railroad tracks? They could get out of the car and walk to safety, but they stay with the car and get clobbered. Of course the predictable human reaction is to try to resolve the situation as cheaply and easily as possible. If somebody tells you to do NOTHING and spend NOTHING, that is like giving a drunk another bottle of wine! It is just what you want to hear. The only problem is it doesn't work. There are plenty of people willing to tell you just what you want to hear to get your money. Few purveyors of legal services are willing to lose a case by telling you the story straight and risk scaring you off by telling you what it will really cost to mount a defense that stands a chance of winning.

Here are some sage words by football great Vince Lombardi: "Winning isn't everything, it is the ONLY thing!"

Let me make clear at this point that the services of the A-team are not free or even inexpensive. We don't do pro-bono cases. We have no leads on funding for your case. There are many others who claim to offer their services for free or cheaper than we do. In reality they don't! Comparing the costs to our clients versus some of our competitors when all the final bills are all added up the A-Team is typically 33% lower. And we usually win. If you are broke, we aren't the resource you are looking for. In our program we start with the most expensive work up front. Why? Because that is what that leads to the majority of our cases being dismissed within 30 days of our being retained. (Actually over 95% of our cases will be dismissed before trial.)

You will need to examine the other pages here and learn as much as you can. One of the most important parts to winning your case is you becoming a full participant in the A-Team. We put together a team unique to the needs of your case. We have a long list of reliable experts to draw upon who are at the top of their individual professions, men and women of impeccable character and credentials. The most important thing you need to know is what constitutes the kind of evidence that will help you achieve victory in your case. And also you need to know how to define what a victory is for you. What the A-Team considers victory is not necessarily what others consider a win. In a divorce case where the father is accused of incest, by our standard it is a win only when dad has custody at the end of the case if that is appropriate to the facts of the case, and that the allegations are so completely destroyed they aren't made again shortly after the trial as they are with most other strategies.

To judge whether you need the A-Team or not, ask yourself what your lawyer has done for you to make the allegations go away. Ask yourself what your lawyer's plans are what specific strategy he or she will employ and what the clear goals are, if you don't know the answer to those questions, you need to realize that you are in deep trouble. If there is no clear strategy, no clear objectives that coincide with the results you'd like to see, you need to hire us. If you have no clear idea of what the case against you is after a week or two of the lawyer being on the job for you, you're in trouble! If the lawyer says; "Let's wait and see what they come up with" it will be too late to do anything to make the case go away. To the lazy practitioner there are a million excuses to put things off until tomorrow, and pretty soon you will fall right into the same trap. Not realizing that the monster is just outside willing to kill you.

Not everybody likes the tools we use. It isn't a matter of what I like, or what you like, or what our competitors like or don't. It is a matter of what WORKS! It is a matter of what tools obtain the greatest impact in accordance with the goals that we set together. We can debate the scientific validity of this test or that test or procedure into the 30th millennia. That all makes no difference, what counts is what works. Any other debate is a silly waste of time and of effectiveness for you. It is also a waste of your money.

The procedures we use are not stagnant. We have changed lots of the things we do in the past almost 32 years of doing this specific work, we've changed some things we have done just a month ago. The latest technology will always be brought to bear and new techniques to keep pace with changes in the technology used by prosecutors who never remain stagnant either, will always appear with the A-Team first. Much of those who like to think of themselves as our competition are relying on copying our methods that we used years ago. We use the state of the art procedures where we need to, but we don't use some expensive technologies that don't really add to the winning of a case just impress somebody. Multi-media presentations are an excellent tool in these cases, and we use laptop computer presentations as your case or budget permits. (Power Point etc) Your life isn't the time for guesswork. We maintain a huge computer data base on related research in these areas. Our programs are very technology based, and driven by strategies that are proven to work when followed. If you need our help you'll get the very best we and science has to offer. If you just want cheap, we're not it.

Some folks are adamant that we should be "true believers" and be committed to some "cause." Fanatics are seldom effective in the short run much less the long run. The A-Team is comprised of professionals, not radicals with some personal agenda to exercise at the expense of your case. Those who approach the work with that kind of agenda driving them are more interested in living their life through your case as opposed to any professional interest. What you need is not a rabble rouser but an effective certified professional. There is a huge difference between being able to kick ass in a courtroom and just being able to kick the furniture and make loud noises. Anybody can call themselves anything they like. Deserving the title is another issue. Be sure to visit our TOP 10 pages. They will help you avoid very costly mistakes.