Macon Criminal Defense Lawyer

If you have been charged with a crime or are under investigation, your freedom is at stake. The Government is not in the business of proving people are innocent – the Government investigates people that it believes are guilty. Just because some investigator believes something does not make it true. Sometimes the Government ignores or fails to develop evidence that demonstrates that someone is innocent, or at least less culpable than the Government wants to believe.

If you have been charged in state court in Macon or in federal court in Macon, you need a Macon criminal defense lawyer who can defend you and develop the evidence that demonstrates you are innocent. You need a Macon criminal defense lawyer that understands how the Government makes its case.

As a former federal prosecutor, Richard Rice is a 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 defense lawyer that gives you the best possible chance of getting through this experience without going to jail. Although based in Atlanta, Richard Rice regularly appears in federal court in Macon. If you are in need of a Macon criminal defense lawyer, then you need the expertise and experience of Richard Rice.

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