Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media “How do you assign a value to the ‘pain and suffering’ end of it (damages). Because we know on the special damages, as you just described, you have very clear data. And there’s going to be a total. But now, you’ve got ‘pain and suffering’. And I’m asking this […]
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media “So, now I’d like to take a little change in direction and talk about firearm enhancements. As you know, we publish ‘Crime, Justice & America’ magazine that goes inside the jail, and we wrote an article, actually one of our attorneys in another state wrote an article about firearm
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media “So, somebody decides that they want to hire an attorney. They’re coming into your office for the first time. What should they have with them? How should they prepare for that first interview in your office?” Spencer Freeman – Personal Injury Attorney – Pierce County, WA “What helps me
Spencer Freeman – Fire-Loss Attorney – Pierce County, WA “When your house burns down, there’s a bunch of stuff that needs to happen. When the house needs to be made secure, right. If it’s a total burn-down versus if it’s just partially burnt, that’s going to change what needs to be done to secure the
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media “But how do firearms approach how you approach the case?” Spencer Freeman – Criminal Defense Attorney – Pierce County, WA “Well, there’s certainly it’s going to alter how I view negotiations toward a plea bargain could work. If I’ve got a case that doesn’t have a firearm, then the
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media “So, will you be the attorney, specifically in regards to your office…somebody walks in, are you the attorney handling the case or does that go to somebody else? Because a lot of these larger firms, they have 20 different offices across the country, you know the guy that they’re
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media “If I may, one of the things I know about the criminal court cases, because there’s about 11 million arrests every single year in the United States. Very few of those actually go to trial. Right?” Spencer Freeman – Criminal Defense Attorney – Pierce County, WA “That’s correct.” Ray
Spencer Freeman – Criminal Defense Attorney – Pierce County, WA “That’s a whole other interesting subject though, because a jury appears in that case…my client was a 19-year-old African-American kid…man. Our jury pool, when we first got our jury, the venire was of 60 people. Three of them were African-American. By the time that we
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media “Is there a difference in plea bargaining between federal court and state court?” Spencer Freeman – Criminal Defense Attorney – Pierce County, WA “There is…and for a number of reasons. They kind of balance each other out. Well, the US Attorney’s office, by the time they file a case,
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media “Well, that makes sense…where it comes from. Obviously, people want to know, ‘what’s it going to cost me’? How does a public adjuster get paid?” Spencer Freeman – Fire-Loss Attorney – Pierce County, WA “Most public adjusters are going to function off of a contingency fee. So, they’re going
