Hinkle, Jachimowicz, Pointer & Emanuel

California Criminal Defense Attorneys

Reduction of Felonies to Misdemeanors

Our Lawyers Have 100 Years of Combined Experience in the Bay Area

If you have been charged with a felony in California, the law offices of Hinkle, Jachimowicz, Pointer & Emanuel, located in San Jose, California, invites you to contact us. Discuss the best strategies for your criminal defense. In many cases, a favorable outcome after felony charges have been made involves reduction of those felony charges to misdemeanor charges. This is even after a plea of guilty to a felony or after probation (section 17 California Penal Code).

If you already have a felony or felonies on your record we can, in many cases, go to court to reduce your felony to a misdemeanor.

Our San Jose felony criminal defense attorneys have one objective for all of our clients: to obtain the best resolution of a criminal case possible. Two of our lawyers were previously in law enforcement. We understand how the justice system works at all levels: state and federal, felony and misdemeanor. We understand the power of a plea bargain in many instances, allowing defendants benefits such as the following:

• Getting out of jail -- in many cases, community service, weekend work or rehabilitation programs may take the place of incarceration when a felony charge is reduced to a misdemeanor charge.
• Quick resolution of a criminal case -- allowing the accused to go on with a normal lifestyle in peace while the misdemeanor case is underway.
• Preventing or removing serious offenses from one's criminal record -- avoiding the build-up of a record that can prove disastrous to one's future under the "three strikes" law.
• Avoiding publicity and stigma that often accompanies a felony charge or conviction.

Our goal at the law offices of Hinkle, Jachimowicz, Pointer & Emanuel is vigorously to defend people who have been charged or accused of felonies in California. Our trial have 100 years of combined experience representing Californians accused of drug offenses, federal tax fraud, DUI, robbery, homicide, and other serious crimes.

Contact our California felony defense attorneys to schedule a consultation regarding reduction of felony charges to misdemeanor charges.