Legal Question in Criminal Law in Colorado
How do I present evidence to the DA for a dog barking trial case? I have requested discovey and now the DA is doing the same. THis is in CO.
2 Answers from Attorneys
This forum is not designed to teach you how to act and function as a well trained lawyer. Evidence is highly technical and it takes years of actual trial practice to reasonably understand and present evidence properly.
Different types of evidence have different rules to present evidence properly. Further, you also have to know how to overcome objections to your presenting your evidence. Finally, you have to fully understand the rules of evidence in order to properly object to evidence presented by the prosecutor. Remember, the Judge cannot help you and will allow the prosecutor's evidence to come in, even if the prosecutor is not complying with the rules of evidence, unless the prosecutor is way off the permissible extent of the rules of evidence.
You will be at a severe disadvantage if you go to trial against a well trained prosecutor who is a lawyer and has years of both legal training and actual trial experience.
Hire a criminal defense attorney and come to terms you have to pay form those services.
Best of Luck.
I will handle your question in a much simpler manner. You requested discovery from the DA. The DA has requested discovery from you. You have something that you believe is discoverable, and want to comply with the DA request. How do you do that? If that sums up your answer, I would first tell you that most, if not all of your evidence is not discoverable. You should get counsel before deciding that something MUST be given to the DA. Second, if you must present discovery to the DA, you need only do the same thing they did. That is, they can have the discovery if they ARRIVE at any location you specify; on the day and at the time you specify, and pay whatever nominal copying cost you speciy. You can also specify payment method "I don't take checks and I don't accept cash. Money Order only. It must be payable to "I am innocent, Inc". The DA will likely not bother to get the evidence from you. If I guessed your question, that is an answer.
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