One of the most confusing aspects of being involved in a criminal defense in Ohio case is the fact that a normal person has trouble understanding all of the legal speak. Lawyers often use terms that help to describe their work, but that are almost incomprehensible for normal people to understand. The problem in all of this is that if a normal person wants to take an active role in assisting for their criminal defense, it is often hard for them to keep up and can be cumbersome for the lawyer to keep having to explain everything. So, here are some handy things to remember:
- Briefs—a written argument that is given to the courts to establish the basic relevant facts of either a case or motion that is going to be heard and the laws that might apply to said facts.
- Torts—an act that was either intentionally harmful of one's civil rights not coming forth from a contract or statute.
- Motions—requests made to judges to ask them to give a ruling to decide on a certain legal matter.
Established laws
The entire judicial system is based upon the fact that there is standing case history to either support or revoke a law, and this is especially pertinent to criminal defense in Ohio. If there was a ruling that certain evidence may not be allowed in because of the manner in which it was collected and evidence in your case was collected in the same manner, then that could mean that it gets thrown out as well unless the judge wants to disturb precedence. That is really just a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo that means unless the judge wants to say that a previous judge was wrong to declare that evidence tainted, then it is probably going to remain in effect.
What to do?
Don't feel too worried if you get little lost in the language while working on your criminal defense in Ohio and you have to look things up in order to better understand what the lawyers and judge are actually saying when they are discussing your case and other information. If you hang in there and try to break it down to its simplest component, chances are you'll be talking with lawyers and better understanding all of the legal-speak in no time.
