Criminal Defense

By the time a person is charged or indicted, the Government often has been investigating the charges for a significant period of time. However, the Government usually is focused on developing information that makes a person look guilty. You need a criminal lawyer who can defend you and develop the evidence that demonstrates you are innocent. The Government is not focused on information that tends to show a person is innocent or only involved in some less serious conduct. Moreover, when deciding who will be charged, the Government frequently relies on information from cooperators, or “snitches,” who may implicate innocent persons or stretch the truth in order to gain favorable treatment from the Government.

When you are charged with a crime, your freedom is at stake. You need a criminal lawyer that understands how the Government makes its case. As a former federal prosecutor, Richard Rice is an Atlanta criminal defense lawyer who understands how the Government builds and proves a case and, therefore, how best to take that case apart and successfully defend you. The future of your family, your job and your freedom demand that you hire a criminal lawyer that gives you the best possible chance of getting through this experience without going to jail.

Richard Rice has extensive experience both prosecuting and defending criminal felony cases. As a former Assistant United States Attorney and a criminal defense lawyer both with the Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG Corps) and then one of the largest law firms in the United States, Richard Rice has the ability and experience to identify the weaknesses in the Government’s case and present the strengths of your defense.

Richard Rice and The Rice Law Firm are available to represent you in a broad range of serious felony prosecutions, including:

• Assaults
• Bank robbery
• Civil and criminal forfeiture proceedings
• Computer and internet crimes
• Conspiracy offenses
• Corruption, including bribery, kickbacks and theft of honest services
• Criminal and civil RICO proceedings
• Drug conspiracy crimes
• Drug possession and distribution
• Environmental criminal and regulatory enforcement actions
• Espionage and terrorism cases
• Federal tax violations
• Financial, banking, and securities laws violations
• Firearm and gun offenses
• Foreign Corrupt Practice Act violations
• Fraud, including international and domestic fraud schemes of every type
• Government contract investigations
• Grand jury subpoenas or investigations
• Health care fraud
• Internet crimes
• Money laundering
• Mortgage fraud
• Prescription medicine offenses
• Public and private corruption, bribery, and kickback schemes
• Securities Fraud
• Smuggling and importation crimes
• Technology and trade secrets theft
• Theft offenses
• Wiretap (Title III) cases

See also Macon Criminal Defense Lawyer, Atlanta Criminal Lawyer