Complex White Collar Crimes

Milwaukee White Collar Defense Attorneys

The defense of prosecutions for white-collar crime usually requires that the defense lawyer, at least at the outset, accept the accuracy and admissibility of the prosecution’s documents and develop an alternative and non-criminal theory of their significance. While it is not uncommon for the defense lawyer to consult with a forensic accountant in the exploration of such alternative theories, such accountants frequently have only limited experience with criminal prosecutions. For this reason a defendant charged with white collar crimes should seriously consider retaining a defense lawyer who is also a Certified Public Accountant. James Shellow has been a C.P.A. since 1961.

If alternative theories to the theory of prosecution are unsuccessful in securing a reasonable pretrial resolution and a trial on the merits appears to be likely, the trial will be a battle for the exclusion of the prosecution’s documentary evidence. Pretrial Motions to exclude such evidence must be filed, briefed, and argued. Rules of evidence are the language of the law. James Shellow has taught and continues to teach trial practice to attorneys throughout the country. For years he taught a seminar in Advanced Criminal Procedure at the University of Wisconsin and Trial Practice at the University of Virginia. He currently teaches trial practice at the National College for Criminal Defense in Macon, Georgia and for the past decade has been President of its Board of Regents. He has lectured to Special Agents of the Internal Revenue Service on cross-examinations of agents in criminal tax prosecutions and his articles on the cross-examination of prosecution experts are widely regarded as authoritative.

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