Dallas Criminal Defense Attorney dealing with Arrest Reports

Dallas Criminal Defense Attorney dealing with Criminal Charges   

After an arrest, the arrest report is sent to a prosecutor, whose job it is to initiate and prosecute criminal cases. Arrest reports summarize the events leading up to arrests and provide numerous other details, such as dates, time, location, and weather conditions of the crime, and witnesses' names and addresses, if that information is available.The prosecutor will either:

• decide that the case should be charged (as a felony or a misdemeanor), and file a complaint with the trial court
• decide that the case should be charged as a felony and bring evidence before citizens serving as grand jurors, who will decide what charges, if any, to file, or
• decide that the matter should not be pursued.

Prosecutors can file charges on all crimes for which the police arrested a suspect. Or, they can file charges that are more or less severe than the charges leveled by the police.