What is your criminal defense lawyer’s plan for your preliminary hearing in Pennsylvania?
The preliminary hearing is extremely important to your case and you should never assume that it doesn’t matter or it is in some way insignificant.
There are situations where waiving a preliminary hearing makes strategic sense but this is only after a careful evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of going forward with it. If your criminal defense lawyer is advising you to move forward with the hearing his or strategies should focus on the following 3 points: