When your future is at risk – your liberty, your career, your driver’s license, your right to possess firearms, maybe even your life – whom do YOU want at your side?
Serving Southeastern South Dakota and Northwest Iowa
Choosing an attorney is one of the most important decisions you can make. Your attorney serves multiple roles, being an advocate on your behalf outside the courtroom against the opposing party (often another attorney), as well as inside the courtroom before a judge and potentially a jury of your peers.
Criminal Defense
Violent Felony Crimes
We have handled the most serious types of violent felony crimes including murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, robbery, riot, aggravated assault, kidnapping, assaults by inmates, assaults against law enforcement officers or health care workers, and child abuse.
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Drug Crimes
Drug crimes are some of the most common crimes not just due to the prevalence of methamphetamine in the area, but because medicinal marijuana in South Dakota is slowly rolling out and because South Dakota still makes it a felony to possess Delta-9 tetrahydracannibinol.
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Sex Crimes
Sex crimes are some of the most challenging cases because of the intimate nature of the crime and because there are often no direct witnesses besides the defendant and the alleged victim. These cases are even more serious when criminal acts are alleged against children.
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Property Crimes and Theft
We handle property crimes such as burglary, grand theft, felony vandalism, identity theft, forgery and possession of a stolen vehicle.
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Misdemeanor Crimes Against Persons
Misdemeanor crimes against persons include criminal violations of protection, no contact, restraining orders and resisting arrest.
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Weapons Crimes
Serious weapons crimes include commission of a felony while armed, discharge of a firearm from a motor vehicle, and discharge of a firearm at an occupied structure.
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Serious Traffic Offenses
We handle felony traffic offenses such as vehicular homicide and vehicular battery, as well as misdemeanor offenses including driving under the influence, reckless driving, eluding, and hit and run.
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