Negotiated Agreement Preserves North Carolina Family
Raleigh criminal lawyer Patrick Roberts recently defended a single mother against a felony child abuse charge.

March 06, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Raleigh criminal lawyer Patrick Roberts recently defended a single mother against a felony child abuse charge. In aggressively fighting to protect the rights of the accused, Mr. Roberts was able to preserve her family by negotiating with the prosecutor to arrange supervised visitation with the child.

In addition to the negotiated visitation, Mr. Roberts worked out an agreement where the mother was not convicted of child abuse and instead received a Prayer for Judgment Continued. A "Prayer for Judgment Continued" is unique to North Carolina criminal law and it means that, instead of a conviction, a judge is not required to enter final judgment on the matter.

Thanks to Mr. Roberts' hard work, the mother is now reunited with her sons and able to arrange a family and community support system to reduce the stress of raising her son alone. She has no conviction on her record, preserving her reputation and her ability to seek employment and future education.

It is crucial that a successful criminal lawyer be able to successfully work with the other players in the North Carolina criminal justice system, such as law enforcement, Child Protection Services and the District Attorney's Office. "It's important for criminal defense counsel to have good working knowledge of processes that are involved in prosecuting these [child abuse] cases and how to effectively defend them," Mr. Roberts said.

As a former North Carolina prosecutor, Mr. Roberts has a wealth of knowledge on how prosecutors handle child abuse cases. He prosecuted child abuse and child molestation cases while working for several District Attorney's Offices and, from that experience, understands how a bad a situation can ruin families. Now, as a Raleigh criminal lawyer, Mr. Roberts uses his experience prosecuting child abuse cases to fight for the rights of those clients accused of child abuse throughout North Carolina.

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A. Patrick Roberts
Roberts Law Group, PLLC
Criminal Defense Lawyers
203 W. Millbrook Road, Suite 200
Raleigh, NC
United States 27609
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