THE LAW, YOUR TESTIMONY, AND EVIDENCE

 YOUR TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE

How important is the law and how important is your testimony? My name is Vince Davis and I'm an attorney who represents people in the CPS and juvenile dependency courts throughout California. I get these calls from clients, or potential clients, all the time and they have done research on their own and they believe they know what the law is. And they want to know if the law is this, why is the judge doing that? Then the answer is is that your interpretation of the law may not be accurate. Just this morning I was speaking to someone who was having their first juvenile dependency hearing this morning at 10:30. And she called me and she recited the law to me. For the most part, she was about 80% correct on the law, about 20% incorrect, which is very important, but she didn't have any evidence through testimony and documents to help prove her case. The most important thing, in any case, is the evidence. It's the story. It's the documents that you present to the judge. Your interpretation of the law, that's going to be very difficult because you're probably not an attorney and the law is probably not what you think it is at least a hundred percent. So generally there is a general rule, but like everything in the law, there maybe 50 to 100 exceptions. And if you're not an experienced lawyer in this area of the law, you won't know those exceptions. Here's one big assumption I get all the time. Mr. Davis, I have a letter from my counselor. We're going to introduce that into evidence. Here's the problem. It's not admissible unless the County Council and the other parties agree. Why? Because it's hearsay and there's no foundation. The response is, "Well, the social worker gets to do it." That's right. The social worker can rely on and introduce hearsay evidence and it's admissible even if you object to it. So it is important that you have evidence to disprove the social worker's theory at whatever type of hearing you are. If you're at your first hearing where it's the detention hearing or the second and third hearing, which are what they call the jurisdictional and dispositional hearings, you need evidence. You need people to get up on the witness stand and testify for you. You need documents with the preparer of the document there to say, "Hey, I wrote this letter and it's real." And you then introduce that into evidence. You need people, you need to put your children on the witness stand if that's appropriate in your case. You need your counselors, your therapist, your drug counselor, your anger management counselor, your individual therapist. You need your tests, your substance abuse counselor, you need your drug tests for them to come in and show that these are real and that you do not have a drug problem. Now if you're watching this video, you probably have questions about your case. I answer questions like this all the time. Please give me a call at 888-888-6582 and I'll answer your questions. Thank you for watching this video. Please subscribe to my channel and like this video and share it with all of your friends and colleagues who might need this information. We'll see you next time in the next video. Offices near you in the following Counties: Los Angeles Orange San Bernardino Riverside Law Offices Of Vincent W. Davis & Associates 150 N Santa Anita Ave, Ste 200 Arcadia, CA 91006 (888) 888-6582 (ph.) #VinceDavis, #FightCPS, #CALawyer, *********************************************** Related Tags: *********** Lawyer, court, attorney, legal, litigation, solicitor, la w, prosecutor, statutory, common law, barrister, counsel, sister in law, Harvard law school, law school, family law, lawsuit, civil law, free legal advice, law firm, law dictionary, international law, legal advice, law firms, case law, what is law, hukuki haber, university of law, law library, constitutional law, college of law, family law attorney, attorney at law, contract law, administrative law, statutes, bar association, legal terms, legal meaning, law college, find law, legal news, university school, federal law, legal aid lawyers, law courses, legal rights, law student, faculty of law, lawnewz, studying law, family law court, legal help, legal info, law cases, top law firms, legal issues, american lawyer, law university, family law lawyers, law degrees, california law, texas law, what is the law, what is a law, meaning of law, the university of law, school of law, attorneys at law, legal attorney, law practice, find law, uk law, a law, online legal advice, legal advice online, legal websites, legal law, criminal law attorney, state law, law com, lawyer website, family law forms, florida law, uni of law, attorney law, school law, attorney lawyer, criminal law lawyer, legal education, what are laws, law offices of, the college of law, lawyer information, criminal law firms, lawyer attorney, law uni, business law attorney, lawyer school, legal school