Experienced Champaign County Criminal Defense Attorney
All criminal charges represent a risk of imprisonment, fines, destroyed reputations and irreversible changes in your life. The stakes of a criminal charge are as high as any legal issue, but a charge is only potential. You have many rights in your favor, and with our help, you can protect yourself.
At Wolf Criminal Law, attorney Bill Wolf leads our firm’s efforts in defending all people in Champaign County against criminal charges of all levels. Thanks to his 30+ years of experience, nationally respected reputation and many awards, we are a criminal defense firm that has gotten results for clients. If you’re facing serious criminal charges, we are the team to turn to for representation.
Criminal Charges We Fight
We take on criminal charges of all levels and severity for our clients, without exception. No matter the circumstances or the point in the process, we can defend you. We’ve found success defending clients in cases such as:
- Homicide: We’ve defended clients in all intentional and unintentional murder charges, from “premeditated” first-degree murder charges to involuntary manslaughter and vehicular homicide.
- Domestic violence: We’ve provided advice and defense to clients facing a host of domestic violence charges from domestic assault to stalking and abuse.
- Assault: In Illinois, assault does not have to involve physical contact, but there are many ways prosecutors enhance and intensify assault charges.
- Gun crimes: We’ve fought for our clients rights when possession or use of a firearms is involved in another criminal charge.
- Sex crime defense: We represent clients facing all manners of sex crimes, including rape and sexual assault, prostitution-related charges, and sex crimes involving minors.
Attorney Wolf’s long career as a criminal defense attorney means he knows the right way to frame your case before the court and before juries. More than that, he’s also available during the initial phases of an investigation and during the appeals process, and often, he’s able to take over a case at trial from an attorney.
Most of all, our firm’s promise is to listen to what our clients say about their case. While we take immense pride in our lawyers’ legal knowledge and skill at criminal law representation, that skill comes with a duty: a duty to pursue cases according to the goals our clients set.
Your Presumption Of Innocence
In the American Justice system, there is a presumption of innocence for all people accused of any crime. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, and that means it does not matter what the evidence, newspapers or even prosecutors say about the case or about you. You are still innocent.
Because of that presumption of innocence, the burden of proof is on the prosecution to prove their case. The prosecutor must prove to a jury of your peers that you are guilty beyond a reasonable. This may seem like normal civics to you, but the weight of the words “beyond a reasonable doubt” is vital to criminal trials.
A doubt to any piece of evidence, a doubt to any potential “theory of the crime” is all you need to start. Even a key witness seeming anything less than perfectly reliable are all ways to raise doubt about the entire case against you.
Finding and exploiting these cracks in the evidence and testimony against you is not easy to do. It takes preparation, skill, investigation and research, and that’s just part of the equation in your criminal defense.
How Attorneys Preserve Client Rights
Preparation is part of the work that attorney Wolf will take on for your case. He can help you in several phases of a criminal charge, including:
- Investigation: At the investigation stage of a criminal charge, attorney Wolf advises our clients to remain silent in conversations with police. We also are there at every warrant served and manage the flow of information to police. We manage the case early, making sure that your rights are protected early.
- Pre-trial and trial: In court, we take the lead in presenting your case. Mr. Wolf uses all of the skill he’s developed over the last three decades to raise doubts and file motions to remove evidence from consideration. He’s aggressive in attacking each part of the prosecution’s case.
- Appeals and sentencing: If the initial verdict goes against you, that does not mean your case is over. Mr. Wolf prepares every case as if it is going not just to trial, but to appeal as well.
As a respected and aggressive criminal defense lawyer in Champaign County, our founder is unafraid of the tactics and pressure brought onto his clients, even in cases as high stakes as sex crimes and federal charges. He brings a confidence and knowledge and toughness to you that you can not only put your trust in, but take comfort in.
Confidentiality In High Stakes Cases
Every criminal charge has a chance to become public and be a problem for you in the court of public opinion. The threat to your professional and personal life is hard to overcome. Mr. Wolf’s public profile, having been a resource for national news organizations, commenting on complex trials, he understands that unpleasant, overwhelming attention.
Your privacy cannot always be guaranteed, but we can fight for your confidentiality. Our lawyers can pursue gag orders and keep the details of your defense as private as humanly possible.
An Aggressive Criminal Defense Attorney In Champaign County
An aggressive defense attorney takes the pressure that the state wants to apply to you and turns it around on the state. The prosecution has to make its case, and an aggressive attorney meets each evidence, witness, and filing with forceful, unyielding attention.
No matter what the police charge you with, you have the right criminal defense attorney on your side when you contact Wolf Criminal Law. Call us at 312-444-0907 or send an email to contact our office and schedule a free initial consultation.