Individuals who face criminal investigations already have a wide range of worries and concerns about the penalties or fees. If you’ve been charged with any sort of criminal offense, then it’s highly expected that people will question your credibility and reputation, regardless of the outcome. Criminal trials can impact your relationships, credibility, career, salary, and future job prospects—things that go well beyond the scope of your personal life. Your reputation is extremely important for many different reasons—it gives people an idea of what they should expect. If a person’s bad reputation gets around in a community, it can influence how people think about them and treat them.

At Meneses Legal, your community standing and reputation are of utmost importance to us, and we will make every effort to uphold and protect your reputation.

Reputation matters

A good reputation is incredibly important to maintain. It can help you in many ways, such as:

• Getting better opportunities
• Lowering the costs of marketing if you own a company or business
• Having a positive perception by friends, investors, and others

Sadly, it’s very easy for your reputation to get ruined when you get charged with a criminal case, whether or not it goes anywhere, and you don’t get convicted. Getting involved in it at all is enough to influence how others perceive you.

What can you do?

If you want to keep your reputation safe and protected, it’s important to talk to an attorney from the very start about minimizing your exposure in the media. It’s possible to avoid releasing your name to news channels and avoid getting any photographs taken in some cases. Incorrect news articles need to be looked at thoroughly and corrected as well.

You can also work with people who are able to manage your reputation throughout the process. If you’ve hired a secretary, you can ask them to keep quiet about your hearings and court dates and simply tell any callers that you’re in an important meeting. Keeping your business as private as possible will help you minimize any damage that gets caused to your reputation.

There might even be an opportunity to keep your case out of the public’s eye and courtroom entirely. Everything that happens in court is recorded for the public, so going to trial will damage your reputation much more. It’s important to limit your exposure to the public from the start to maintain your good reputation.

How can criminal lawyers help?

At Meneses Legal, we make sure to conduct a thorough examination of the evidence and prosecution case. No stone is left unturned when it comes to our determination and efforts in discovering the inconsistencies, weaknesses, and flaws in the prosecution’s case against you.

Criminal cases usually turn on any small pieces of favorable evidence. The evidence might come out in the open early on in the case after we properly analyze the prosecution brief. Sometimes, certain evidence that the police rely on turns out to be inadmissible in court, meaning that the prosecution won’t be able to use it in a trial. In that case, the prosecution will be unable to proceed.

Discovering the problems in the prosecution’s case early on is important since it gives us the opportunity to send written submissions that highlight their case’s weaknesses and flaws while urging them to discontinue the charges on the grounds of public interest. If the submissions get accepted, clients can leave behind this stressful accusation and move on with their life without getting their reputations ruined.

We’re extremely experienced in the field of criminal law and make sure to use all our knowledge to represent any accused persons with professionalism. We make sure to put in tireless effort to preserve your right, reputation, and standing within the community. Our team has a genuine compassion for the accused’s needs and situations. According to our beliefs, every person who is accused deserves the entitlement to be presumed innocent until they are proven to be guilty. No one deserves to have their reputation ruined by allegations.

Hire criminal justice attorneys in Tijuana today!

It’s important to get in touch with a criminal defense lawyer as soon as you get convicted of any crimes. Criminal Attorney Fabian Meneses and our team at Meneses Legal can use our years of experience and in-depth knowledge of the law to help keep your reputation safe as your criminal trial goes underway.

Our team works with sex crimes, gun crimes, drug possession, homicide crimes, cross-border crimes, and contraband and tax crimes. Head over for a free consultation with our bilingual criminal defense attorneys in Tijuana!

Reach out to us on our website to learn more.