“If you’re being investigated by a grand jury, it’s possible that you wouldn’t even know. Typically, people get tipped off that a grand jury is conducting an investigation because maybe their friends, neighbors, or co-workers have been subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury, or they themselves have received a subpoena to come in and testify, or a subpoena for certain documents. If you have received a subpoena...

“When I was a federal prosecutor I worked for the Department of Justice as an Assistant US Attorney for the western district of Texas. I was based out of the Del Rio office, which meant I was on the border. I handled lots of drug cases, a couple hundred pounds of marijuana and cocaine, those types of things. We did lots of public corruption, white collar crime, terrorism cases and all sorts of federal cases like that.” If you...

“A grand jury is different than a regular jury you might have seen in a TV court room. A grand jury is a secret proceeding that’s put on by either a state prosecutor or a federal prosecutor, in which they present evidence, typically a felony case, to select members of the public. Those members then hear this evidence, they may consist of testimony from witnesses or documents that are presented, and then the grand jurors will...

“A state level crime is prosecuted by the people of the state of Colorado. You have Assistant Deputy, or Deputy District Attorneys that are handling those cases. A lot of times they are DUI’s, simple drug possession cases, assault cases. Moving up into felonies you have burglaries, homicides, robberies, sexual assaults. Versus a Federal case which is typically not a victim type crime, so you usually don’t have murders,...

“Picking an attorney in Colorado is a tricky thing. There are many lawyers out there and there’s great attorneys to choose from. It’s difficult to find the right lawyer for you because a lot of times people just pick one out of the phone book and hire them. But it’s important that you sit down with a number of lawyers and figure out who’s the attorney that you’re most comfortable with. Who’s the...