Criminal Defense Services
Criminal defense starts before your arraignment. Being charged with any crime, including Vermont DUI, can be an intimidating experience. It is difficult to know how to navigate the process on your own. At Burke Law, we guide you through every stage of the criminal process.
From arraignment to disposition, our criminal defense attorneys identify the strengths of your case and zealously advocate on your behalf. If you are charged with a crime it is important to speak to an experienced criminal defense attorney as soon as possible. Even minor convictions can negatively impact your future.
Learn about the different criminal defense services Burke Law offers below.
Probation may be imposed at your sentencing. Sentencing is the last phase of the Vermont criminal process and occurs after you have been convicted by a jury or pled guilty to criminal charges. If you are on probation then you are not serving a jail sentence. A jail sentence has Read more…
Attorneys often speak of the suppression of evidence in Vermont criminal defense cases. What does it mean to suppress evidence in a Vermont criminal case? If evidence is suppressed it cannot be used as evidence during a criminal trial. In other words, the suppressed evidence is excluded from being introduced Read more…
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted Burke Law’s ability to quickly adapt to an ever-changing Vermont criminal defense environment without compromising our commitment to our clients to be accessible, informed and passionate advocates. Burke Law has been pioneering the use of technology in criminal defense since its founding. With the strategic Read more…
Criminal defense firms have historically been local, small, and owned by one to three white male law partners. Sometimes they have one named female partner, sometimes they don’t have any at all. If she’s on the sign at all her name is rarely first. Many of these firms provided local Read more…
Attorney Zachery Weight is a seasoned trial attorney at Burke Law who focuses his practice on criminal defense in Northern Vermont. Attorney Weight has won numerous jury trials and successfully represented hundreds of Vermonters charged with criminal offenses in Franklin, Addison, Rutland, Orleans, Essex, Caledonia, Windsor, Washington, Chittenden and Lamoille Read more…
When a criminal defendant is convicted and sentenced in Vermont he or she may be given a suspended jail sentence in exchange for being put on a term of probation. Alternatively, a criminal defendant may be sentenced to a “to serve” sentence. A “to serve” sentence can be served in Read more…
On March 10, 2020, Attorney Jessica Burke won a jury trial for a client in Washington county. The client was acquitted of Aggravated Domestic Assault, Domestic Assault and Aggravated Disorderly Conduct. The trial took one day. The jury deliberated for 55 minutes. If you are charged with a crime in Read more…
Criminal conditions of release are a combination of rules imposed on a defendant by the Court. In other words, the judge outlines activities that you must do or must not do. This can occur before your arraignment, at your arraignment, or conditions of release can be modified later in the Read more…
Anyone charged with a crime in Vermont is entitled to a jury trial. Jury trials involve picking a jury from a pool of potential jurors with your attorney and the prosecutor. The judge presiding over the trial oversees the juror selection process. This process is commonly referred to a “picking Read more…
What does Miranda protect in Vermont criminal defense? Miranda warnings are one of the most misunderstood concepts in Vermont criminal defense. Miranda protects an individual who is custody from making incriminating statements. Miranda is commonly read to persons as they are arrested on television and this has led to a Read more…