“Criminal law is the branch of law which defines behaviours classified as offences and the sanctions handed down against these actions, namely punishment”.

Our law firm assists in criminal defence proceedings when you are accused in a criminal case, regardless of the nature of the offence, and provides the best guidance for your legal defence and information about what is at stake.

Our law firm also provides consultancy and advice in managing criminal risks, current or future, for natural persons and legal entities, so as to bolster legal security.

Assistance in criminal defence is available at all stages of criminal proceedings, and particularly in the following circumstances :

Pre-trial

• Custody: confidential interviews when being placed in custody and at the time of each custody extension decision, hearings and questioning
• Lainch of a legal investigation measure before the examining judge: questioning regarding the choice of status between that of an assisted witness or accused and referral of the case to the sentencing judge, questioning, requests for legal deeds, applications for release, change to legal supervision measures.
• Sentencing judge: adversarial hearings for placement under judicial supervision or house arrest with an electronic bracelet.
• Investigative chamber: challenging decisions taken by the investigative judge or sentencing judge, filing applications for acquittal, enforcement of a European arrest warrant or extradition proceedings.

During hearings

• Criminal court pleading in criminal matters
• Prosecutor of the French Republic for proceedings following an initial guilty plea
• District criminal court for offences punishable by a custodial sentence of 15 to 20 years
• Supreme Court for offences punishable by a custodial sentence of over 20 years
• Special Division of the Supreme Court (sitting in Paris) for crimes related to terrorism

Post-trial

• Sentencing judge or Sentencing court for people who are accused and not in custody or held in custody wishing to request a reduced sentence (release on bail, release under electronic supervision, day parole, halfway house, conversion into financial penalties or community service)
• Presiding judge at the court of appeal or the indemnification commission for arbitrary detention for people placed in custody and then released following an acquittal or non-suit.
• Post-sentencing applications: relating to the minimum sentencing, concurrency of several sentences, suspended sentences for medical reasons, clearing criminal records