The choice of a lawyers is an important decision and should not be based solely upon advertisements. With over 20 years of exclusively handling criminal cases, Patrick W. Peters is ready to go to work on your case. After trying over 175 felony jury trials, he has the experience to handle your criminal matter effectively. Each client receives legal excellence, aggressive representation, honesty and integrity, technical innovation, responsiveness and compassion.

Innocent people are going to prison at an alarming rate. The public still thinks the system works well, but the latest data from the FBI shows a staggering number of innocent people are wrongly convicted. With the advent of DNA testing, we can now identify the guilty party and exonerate the innocent in certain cases. The FBI has been performing DNA tests on those individuals convicted and serving prison sentences for sexual offenses: comparing their DNA with crime scene samples not tested prior to trial.

The results? 25% are proven innocent and exonerated, 25% are inconclusive and 50% confirm that the prisoner is the guilty party. TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT are proven innocent, with the percentage of "actually innocent" between 25% and 50%. The same types of evidence used to wrongly convict these innocent people--primarily eyewitness testimony--is used in most criminal cases. You need a skilled attorney to minimize your chances of going to prison for a crime you did not commit.

Almost as horrible as sending an innocent person to prison is the frequency with which people are sentenced to far more time than they deserve. We read in the paper about children receiving life sentences, of people serving 20 years for small amounts of narcotics, of lengthy sentences for non-violent crimes. An experienced attorney makes a difference. Patrick Peters has been an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney and Deputy Attorney General. He can negotiate a reasonable plea in those cases where trial is not an option.