Social Media Scans for Death Penalty Private Investigations

Sadly, the United States has not yet abolished the death penalty on a national level. While twenty-three states in the USA have outlawed the use of the death penalty, twenty-seven states still permit it as an accepted practice for state crimes. At the federal level, it remains legal for federal crimes on a national level. Indeed, the United States is one of the only advanced countries that still allows the death penalty, as do Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan. Other countries like England, Ireland, Wales, Canada, and Australia abolished the grisly, immoral practice years ago, but the people of the USA have currently failed to evolve to the point where we no longer kill each other, legally sanctioning it and viewing it as moral.

When courts sentence criminal defendants to die, it at least has a legal process that mandates safeguards for the convicted criminals. These include a series of appeals that allow defendants and their death penalty lawyers in Oklahoma the opportunity to contest aspects of the trial, such as evidence, the type of representation they received, the laws themselves, and more. The death penalty appeals lawyers often even hire death penalty private investigators to assist them with the death penalty appeals process, as these attorneys want to give their condemned clients every chance to live as long as possible.

A social media private investigator has many ways they can work as a major part of a criminal defense team via social media private investigations. They can help reduce the rates of execution, and some of the things that our digital private investigators can do to help defendants the government has condemned to die and the attorneys who represent them include, but are not limited to, the following:

Social Media Scans:

Social media scans are one great method for helping with death investigations, especially in capital murder cases. Our AI private investigations are superb, when combined with our human specialists, at pulling up vast amounts of social media information about a given individual. Our social media private investigator can pull up all kinds of social media and other Internet-based evidence, which can include but is not limited to the following:

Crime Scene Data

  Victim & Witness Information

Social Media Posts About the Crime

News Stories About the Crime

Other Possible Suspects Who Actually Committed the Crime

Mitigating Evidence

Locating Current & New Witnesses

Finding Online Admissions of Guilt

These are just a few of the many ways in which our artificial intelligence private detective can leverage what is out there on the Internet to help with death penalty appeals and criminal trials. When combined with our other investigative techniques, a social media scan can complement criminal private investigations and can help exonerate a condemned prisoner or even help secure a commutation, pardon, or resentencing for a lesser sentence.

Skip Tracing for Locating Witnesses:

Our skip tracers are also helpful when the criminal defense lawyer near me needs to locate a missing witness, alleged victim, or even her/his/their own absconding criminal defendant. Skip trace services are fast and inexpensive, and useful as a legal service that we offer.

Presentencing Investigation Reports (PSIs):

Sometimes courts do not offer presentencing investigation reports, also known as PSIs, prior to sentencing a client because of their lack of criminal background and because the crime the judge is about to sentence them for is a nonviolent one. Since capital crimes in the USA are always violent in some way, our PSI private investigations can still be useful for a criminal defense lawyer in Oklahoma to give to the judge. While the government will still present one, having an independent source also do so can help give a judge more independent background information and facts prior to imposing a sentence, especially if it includes the possibility of the death penalty.

Nationwide Criminal Background Checks:

Nationwide criminal and civil background checks are also useful in helping to show a judge, jury, and prosecutors a lack of criminal history. People with little or no prior criminal offenses often get lighter sentences than repeat offenders do. Thus, our nationwide criminal background checks on the defendants can potentially show that the accused person has little to no background check. Our social media private investigator can also use them to cast criminal suspicion upon other suspects in the same case who might have committed the crime at hand.

Interviewing Witnesses, Other Possible Suspects, & Families of the Victims:

Our criminal private detective can also go out and interview witnesses, other suspects, and even the family members and friends of the crime victims. We can ask for additional details, interrogate suspects, and try to find any mitigating or exonerating evidence that can help free our client or at least give a judge, governor, and/or parole board reason to commute the sentence from death to prison time only.

Methods of Death Penalty Executions:

Much like in earlier generations, our society in the USA still has some grotesque, inhumane methods they use to execute people. While previous methods of executions included beheadings, drawing and quartering, and a wide variety of pre-execution torture methods, the United States of America

Hanging:

The “good ole fashioned” execution method that has persisted for centuries, hanging people is just what it says. The executioner ties a noose around the person’s neck, and then they kick out the stool or flooring beneath them. The victims either end up with broken necks, and/or they suffocate to death. 

Firing Squad:

Far from humane or painless, a firing squad requires several people – usually “volunteers” – to point a firearm at the condemned person and then firing. The prison staff places a mark over the person’s heart and a black bag or mask over the individual’s face. The volunteers will all aim at the X on the condemned person’s heart, which has the potential to not kill the person immediately and cause a significant amount of pain.

Government officials opt to not have the bullet hit the brain, which would kill the person immediately, to preserve the “dignity” of the deceased person’s face. While it makes sense that the family will want to have their loved one’s face intact when they have a funeral, is it worth “saving face” if having the executioners shoot at the heart that may not instantly kill the person and could even cause significant pain and suffering? This is a question our capital punishment private detective and the other staff at our private detective agency often have heated scholarly debates about.

Every executioner will have blanks except for the executioner, and it helps all the volunteers because none of them will ever be one hundred percent sure who pulled the trigger that had a bullet inside the firearm. This method makes it easier for executioners to help volunteer for the assignment, though since capital punishment is still murder, all people volunteering for the assignment are still guilty of it by collusion and conspiracy.

Lethal Injection:

Lethal injection is a criminal death penalty that its advocate say is more “humane” than the electric chair or gas chamber. While there may be some merit to this, detractors like our death penalty private investigators who are against the use of any form of capital punishment note that lethal injection often causes people significant amounts of pain. Oklahoma is one of the infamous states where officials have botched the death procedure multiple times, caused extended suffering, and once again turned Oklahoma an international embarrassment as a backward, superstitious, uneducated society.

Adding injury to insult, Oklahoma also has the highest per capital death penalty rate and the largest wrongful-conviction rate for innocent people they have put to death and cannot ever bring back to life. Many of the prosecutors could care less about the innocent people they have condemned to die, even if they become aware they convicted an innocent person like in Ada, Oklahoma.

Electrocution:

If you are a fan of electrocutions which run electricity through a person to kill the individual, then you are one sick monster. Indeed, this archaic form of cruel death penalty punishments, note our capital offense private investigator, is something only the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Tennessee still allow.

Gas Chamber:

The gas chamber is another sick and twisted method of execution that sadists really enjoy using on their victims. Alabama, Arizona, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wyoming allow for the use of the gas chamber to execute condemned criminals.

Nitrogen Hypoxia/Nitrogen Gas:

This method of execution involves having the condemned criminal breathe in nitrogen that will eventually kill them. The nitrogen suffocates the prisoner, and while supporters of this brutal method of execution claim it is quick and painless, the science and other empirical evidence say otherwise.

States in the USA Which Allow the Death Penalty for State Crimes:

As mentioned earlier, there are currently twenty-seven states that currently allow executions as a form of punishment for state crimes. These states, as of the time of the publication of this writing, include the following:

1.Alabama

2.Arizona

3.Arkansas

4.California

5.Florida

6.Georgia

7.Idaho

8.Indiana

9.Kansas

10.Kentucky

11.Louisiana

12.Mississippi

13.Missouri

14.Montana

15.Nebraska

16.Nevada

17.North Carolina

18.Ohio

19.Oklahoma

20.Oregon

21.Pennsylvania

22.South Carolina

23.South Dakota

24.Tennessee

25.Texas

26.Utah

27.Wyoming

These states above which allow the use of the death penalty tend to have more religious, less educated populations. Indeed, the less educated a population is, the more conservative and religious the people are and vice versa. This is why we need better education that teaches empathy, kindness, and how each person can think for herself/herself/themselves. This is the key that will help end the death penalty in countries like the United States on a national level.

States in the USA Which Ban the Death Penalty for State Crimes:

Our death penalty private detective at our private investigation agency also notes that there are fortunately twenty-seven states which currently prohibit the use of executions. These include the following states:

1.Alaska

2.Colorado

3.Connecticut

4.Delaware

5.Hawaii

6.Illinois

7.Iowa

8.Main

9.Maryland

10.Massachusetts

11.Michigan

12.Minnesota

13.New Hampshire

14.New Jersey

15.New Mexico

16.New York

17.North Dakota

18.Rhode Island

19.Vermont

20.Virginia

21.Washington

22.West Virginia

23.Wisconsin

There are also four states which, while they have not implemented permanent bans on executions as a method of punishment for criminals have governors who have instituted temporary holds/blocks on conducting any executions. These four states are as follows:

1. California
2. Ohio
3. Oregon
4. Pennsylvania

These twenty-seven states above have kinder, more empathetic people who human populations are more evolved on average than those states where they still allow the use of the death penalty as a brutal form of punishment. We need more states like these where we do not have such retaliatory, punitive-focused people living there who are so hell-bent on punishment and retribution toward their fellow human beings.

Federal Use of the Death Penalty on its Own People:

Just because these twenty-seven states have banned the cruel form of capital punishment, it does not mean that the federal government has. Indeed, people incarcerated inside of federal penal institutions even in these twenty-seven states above can still face execution at the federal level for capital crimes. Indeed, as of the date of publication of this manuscript, our capital punishment private investigators note that there are currently about forty people awaiting death sentences for federal crimes.

Sentences of Life Without Parole Vs. Death Penalty Examined:

Liberals and conservatives have debated the effectiveness or lack thereof of the death penalty for many years. Empirical evidence has consistently shown that there are no benefits to the death penalty in terms of lower crime rates. Indeed, the use of the death penalty in the United States not only financially costs society more money through its many appellate safeguards, but these constant appeals can also cause additional stress and damage to the victims of violent crimes and their families by forcing them to testify, see news footage about the matters, etc., for decades. This revictimization only hurts the families and friends of the victims and causes them further harm and re-traumatization. The death penalty rarely brings families the closure they want and often misguidedly think it will.

What Our Private Detective Agency Needs to Run a Social Media Scan for a Death Penalty Private Investigation:

To run a social media scan, there are distinct types of data our capital punishment private investigator at our private detective agency in Oklahoma will need to effectively complete it as part of capital punishment private investigations. This information includes, but is not limited to, the following:

1. The Person’s Full Legal Name
2. Date of Birth
3. Social Security Number
4. Date of the Crime
5. Name and Information About the Alleged Victim
6. Circumstances of the Alleged Crime
7. Names of Other Possible Perpetrators or Suspects, if the Defendant Disputes Guilt for the Crime
8. All Possible Available Evidence for the Crime/Victim
9. Police Reports
10. Witness Statements
11. Links to Known News Footage & Social Media Links About the Crime
12. 12.Links to Appellate & Trial Court Briefs & Rulings
13. Nationwide Civil & Criminal Background Check
14. Other Available & Pertinent Information Relating to the Case, Execution, Victims and Their Families, Etc.

The more information about that you can provide to our social media scan private detective, the better the results you will get for the social media scan. Our digital private investigations can work exceptionally well in many case, but they are especially useful when we have the information we need to do the job right the first time around.

What to Expect with Your Social Media Scan Results:

The results of your social media scan will vary based upon the circumstances of your case and the available information. If the criminal defense attorney’s client still claims factual innocence and believes she/he/they were set up by someone else, then the social media scan will focus more on other suspects, lying witnesses, etc. Our PI agency would try to focus upon locating evidence that casts doubt on the person’s guilt, in hopes of helping the criminal defense lawyer secure a pardon, commutation, resentencing, or reversal of the criminal conviction itself.

If the condemned criminal instead accepts responsibility for committing the criminal offense for which a state or federal government has sentenced the individual to death, then our digital private investigations and social media scans would instead focus on mitigating circumstances that might merit a pardon, commutation, or resentencing. Our main goal will be to use the social media scan to help our client in any feasible way that will have the highest chance of getting someone in authority to spare his life.

As you can see, our digital private investigations can delve deeply into a person’s life and can potentially turn people’s social media presence into exonerating evidence in a death penalty case. Trust our legal experts to help leverage social media sites like YouTube, X, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and other websites all over the Internet in a more favorable direction for your criminal case.

Mitigating & Aggravating Factors Affecting Sentencing in Death Penalty Cases:

Whenever a judge and/or jury is/are considering whether to sentence a person to death for a crime she/he/they has/have committed, they must weigh the aggravating factors against the mitigating factors. If the aggravating factors outweigh the mitigating factors, then the judges and juries typically impose the death penalty in capital murder cases. These aggravating and mitigating factors in death penalty sentencing are as follow:

Mitigating Circumstances:

Diminished Capacity of the Defendant:

If the defendant had severe autism or some other intellectual or emotional impairment that would have diminished the person’s capacity to commit a crime, then the courts must consider this as a mitigating factor when assessing whether to impose the death penalty. When criminal defense lawyers successfully argue to negate mens rea, or the criminal intent, as a factor, the result can be a reduced criminal penalty for the crime the person committed.

Defendant Committed the Crime Under Duress:

If someone else forced or coerced the individual to the point where jurisprudence would classify it as having committed the crime under duress, then the courts can use this as a mitigating factor in opting for a lighter sentence for the criminal defendant.

Victim Consented to the Activity That Caused Her/His/Their Death:

Sometimes victim consent to something that resulted in the person’s death. An example of this is when a death victim and the defendant were engaging in a mutually consensual sexual activity that included activities like choking, beatings, etc., with sadomasochism. Unfortunately, if it went too far and someone died as a result, then the court may come back and charge the surviving person with a crime because they claim that person should have known that her/his/their actions could or likely would have – and indeed did – result in the death of their lover and thus should not have engaged in such behavior.

Lesser Participation in the Commission of the Crime:

In crimes where there are multiple defendants, it is possible for an individual to not have had as much participation in the crime itself as other criminal defendants. In these circumstances, one person charged with first degree or felony murder during a bank robbery where someone died may have been the shooter, while the other person was the lookout. Courts are sometimes less hesitant to sentence a person who was a non-shooter or non-killer in a crime to death or even to the same sentence as the person who actively murdered the death victim.

The Defendant Experienced a Particularly Severe Emotional Disturbance at the Time She/He/They Committed the Crime:

In circumstances where the individual the state or federal government has charged with murder experienced a significant emotional disturbance at the time of the crime, the courts may consider it as a mitigating during the sentencing portion of the criminal proceedings. An example of this could be when a defendant experienced a psychotic episode or was experiencing suicidality at the time she/he/they committed the crime.

Lack of Previous Criminal Record:

Another mitigating factor that weighs in the defendant’s favor is when the person does not have any other significant criminal history. Society is less likely to want to punish someone that did one unbelievably dreadful thing as harshly as an individual with a continued, terrible string of terrible acts.

Other Equally Guilty Defendants in the Same Crime Did Not Receive the Death Penalty:

If other criminal defendants in a criminal trial shared equal weight of guilt, a court is less likely to want to sentence one of the criminal defendants with a harsher sentence if all the other factors are equal. Why should one murderer receive the death penalty, while a judge and/or jury opts for life in prison without parole for one or more of the others who did the exact same thing? Such differential sentences come across as very arbitrary and capricious, with appeals courts tending to vacate or modify such unjust sentences.

Other Special Mitigating Factors, Not Otherwise Specified:

Courts also allow that there may be other circumstances and situations which might warrant a mitigating circumstance for a criminal defendant. This is a broad, general, open category that allows for significant judicial discretion and gives the defendants an area for the benefit of the doubt during the death penalty phase of criminal trials and other proceedings.

Aggravating Circumstances – Espionage or Treason:

The factors our capital murder private investigator will explore below are relevant to crimes involving espionage or treason against the United States of America:

Prior Criminal Offenses Involving Espionage or Treason:

Having previous convictions for offenses involving espionage or treason obviously work against a criminal defendant who stands accused of a current criminal charge for espionage or treason. Prosecutors will seek to enter these other “bad acts” against the individual they have charged with these crimes as an aggravating factor against her/him/them, to help increase the punishment portion of the criminal proceedings against the individual.

Criminal Actions Posed a Grave Risk to National Security:

If a criminal defendant’s actions posed an incredibly significant risk to national security, then this is yet another aggravating factor that the courts will weigh against defendants in the penalty phases of criminal proceedings.

Grave Risk of Death:

Putting another person at a significantly elevated risk of dying while committing an act of espionage or treason can also increase the level of punishment courts dole out to criminal defendants.

Aggravating Circumstances – Murder:

Much like with espionage and treason, our social media private detective notes that factors exist which can increase the level of punishment that a judge or jury may dole out to a person prosecutors have accused of committing murder. These aggravating factors can help increase a defendant’s criminal punishment during the penalty phase of criminal proceedings.

Death Resulted When the Defendant Committed Another Crime:

If the criminal is at sentencing, and the judge hears from the prosecutors that someone died when the defendant committed another crime, such as trying to escape and then shooting the police or security officer who tried to stop them, then it serves as another aggravating factor against the individual.

The Defendant Has a Previous Conviction for a Violent Crime or One Involving a Gun:

Murderers who already have previous convictions for violent crimes or any crime involving a firearm are going to face stricter penalties and additional charges. “Did not learn your lesson the first time around, eh?”

Other Previous Life/Death Penalty Given in Another Court for a Separate State or Federal Crime:

Our social media private detective notes that this aggravating factor is relevant when a court of competent jurisdiction has already sentenced a criminal with a penalty or life in prison or death for another crime at the state or federal level.

Prior Conviction of Other Extremely Serious Criminal Offenses:

Courts do not look favorably upon criminals who already have prior criminal convictions for serious crimes. These repeat offenders become a drain on society, and people in the community and the judicial system alike tend to lose patience with their crimes.

The Defendant Caused Risk of Death to Other People:

When a person murders someone but also exposes other people to face death, such as when a bank robber commits armed robbery at a bank and then holds hostages at gunpoint and shoots near them to scare them, it is a definite aggravating factor that courts must and will consider when sentencing the defendant.

The Defendant Acted in an Especially Heinous, Depraved, or Cruel Manner When Committing the Crime:

An example of this, per our death penalty private investigator, is when a person not only murders someone but then cuts off their head and eats the eyeballs. While an extreme example, the act would be something courts would consider to be especially heinous and depraved.

The Defendant Received a Payment for Committing the Crime/Hitman:

Murder-for-hire cases, where the person did the killing for profit – like ex-military contractors from the USA who went to Iraq and Afghanistan and murdered others – are especially bad. The murder did not even occur impulsively during an argument but for mere profit.

Significant Premeditation & Planning Went into the Commission of the Criminal Act:

When criminals lie in wait or put extensive planning into committing the crime, it is especially bad. Our murder private investigator notes that this planning is much different than someone who kills another during an unplanned road rage killing. Both homicides are bad, but the former is worse.

The Criminal Defendant Has Previously Received Two Prior Convictions for Felony Drug Offenses:

When criminal defendants rack up multiple felonies, it wears down society’s patience with them. Everyone makes mistakes, but when people fail to learn from them and heal, do better, grow, evolve, and reform, then it becomes an even more significant issue.

The Crime Victims Had a Special Circumstance That Made Her/Him/Them Particularly Vulnerable:

Crimes against kids, old people, and those with disabilities are something that judges, juries, and fellow inmates alike tend to not look kindly upon those who commit crimes against those individuals. In jails and prisons, those who have hurt kids, the elderly, women, and those with special needs often find themselves the target of particularly violent repercussions while incarcerated.

The Criminal Defendant Has Previous Serious Federal Drug Offenses:

Having serious drug crimes of high significance like drug trafficking will not bode well during the sentencing phase of a criminal proceeding.

The Defendant Obtained Money, Property, Etc., Via Pecuniary Gain:

Obtaining money or property because you had some influence on a cryptocurrency for which you profited without disclosing it to your viewers ahead of time, via insider trading, etc., can come with additional penalties as an aggravating factor.

The Defendant Has Previously Engaged in Ongoing Drug Crimes That Involved Selling Drugs to Minors:

Selling drugs to kids is not a smart idea, and when judges catch wind of it during your sentencing for yet another crime it will not sit well.

The Criminal Defendant Committed the Crime Against a High-Ranking Public Official:

Committing crimes against the United States President, Vice President, federal judges, federal officers, foreign officials in the USA performing their duties, heads of state, etc., are crimes society often refers to as “assassinations” and come with additional criminal penalties.

The Criminal Defendant Has Prior Criminal Convictions for the Crimes of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) or Child Molestation:

Our child abuse private investigator at our private detective agency notes that it is not wise to abuse, molest, exploit, or otherwise hurt children. If you do not believe what our private investigation is telling you, then try going to jail and/or prison for a crime that involves women, the elderly, or little kids and see what happens to you. Judges are just as punitive in these cases, only their retribution comes from the bench.

The Defendant Tried to Kill More Than One Person During the Commission of the Crime:

Trying to kill more than one person during the commission of a crime is especially bad, and our homicide private investigator notes that judges and juries consider this as an aggravating factor that weighs against a criminal defendant in a capital crime that could lead to the person’s execution.

Aggravating Circumstances – Drug-Crime Related Death Penalty:

During serious drug-related offenses that include the possibility of the death penalty as a punishment, the laws allow for certain actions the defendants engage in to count as aggravating factors which can make judges and juries decide warrants the most serious punishment for drug-related crimes. These aggravating circumstances include the following considerations:

Courts Have Already Authorized Either a Life-or-Death Sentence Against the Defendant in a Previous Criminal Conviction:

Once again, if the defendant already has a conviction for which the law authorizes a sentence of life or the death penalty, then this serves as an aggravating factor against the defendant that can increase the penalty potential.

The Courts Have Already Issued a Conviction Against the Defendant for Another Crime or Crimes:

When a person has multiple convictions, the courts can use these “bad prior acts” against the person in the current/pending criminal sentencing. Indeed, many prosecutors try to enter these prior horrific acts into evidence during the criminal trial portion of the legal process as if to say, “See? This defendant is a habitually bad person and needs prison time!”

Courts Have Already Convicted the Said Defendant on Other Serious Felony Charges:

If the judge and/or jury has already convicted the defendant in other serious criminal cases, then this will not bode well for the individual.

The Crime Involved the Use of a Firearm:

Prosecutors and society both recognize that committing crimes are bad, but when criminals use guns during the commission of the crime the outcome is often worse. Thus, the penalties for crimes where the defendant used a firearm are more significant than if they had not done so.

The Criminal Defendant Sold Drugs to People Under the Age of Twenty-One:

Selling drugs to minors is atrocious. These vulnerable kids need adults who are safe, loving, and who set good examples. Our digital private investigators see too many drug dealers who try to use the naivete and natural curiosity kids often possess to manipulate them and get them hooked onto drugs at a youthful age. Tobacco and alcohol companies do this all the time to maximize their profits, because that way the kids can use them for more years if they start them off at a younger age when they are more vulnerable and statistically have more years of life yet to live.

The Defendant Sold Drugs Near Schools:

Obviously, selling drugs is bad, but our capital offense private investigator at our private investigation agency can attest that selling to or around kids at a school is much worse than peddling drugs to adults or to those in non-school settings. Other things being equal, kids are more vulnerable than their adult counterparts, and prosecutors may factor this in when determining the best sentence for a criminal defendant in a serious drug case.

The Criminal Defendant Utilized Minors to Commit the Drug Crime:

Once again, selling drugs to minors is terrible, but utilizing kids to help you sell drugs or run your operation is equally bad, if not worse. We often see sad instances like this in or drug private investigations. Courts do not look favorably upon criminal defendants who do this.

The Criminal Used an Adulterant in the Drugs Which Ended with a Victim Fatality:

When a drug dealer uses a synthetic or substitute cost-saving material in the drugs which causes an overdose fatality, judges and juries can use this to increase the penalty the defendant must face.

Crimes the Government Can Impose the Death Penalty For:

State and federal governments alike can send people to death for diverse types of murders and other crimes, especially if their aggravating circumstances we talked about above outweigh the mitigating factors. Some of the crimes that qualify for the death penalty in states which allow for it and at the federal level are listed in the links you just looked at. Most capital offenses involve murder, though you can see this is not always the case.

Additionally, some states like Oklahoma are implementing the death penalty for rape of a child and other child sexual abuse crimes. No one even needs to die in these circumstances, but these punitive penalties themselves go too far even though the crime itself is deplorable.

The Role of Pardons, Commutations, & Resentencing Hearings, & Reversal of Criminal Convictions:

Our death penalty private detectives at our PI agency work hard with criminal defense attorneys who are appealing their clients’ criminal convictions and especially their death sentences. During this process, they may hire a social media scan private detective to help them secure some form of relief for their clients. These can include the following:

Pardons at the State or Federal Level:

Our pardon private detective can work with the criminal defense attorney to try to help secure a federal or state pardon. Only governors of states can issue pardons for state-level crimes in their respective states, while the President of the United States is the only one who can issue pardons. A pardon is a government-level forgiveness and restores all rights and privileges to the person with the misdemeanor or felony conviction. It does not remove the conviction itself, but it takes away all associated punishments and restores the person’s rights and privileges like voting rights, gun rights, etc.

State and Federal Commutations:

Commutations reduce the sentence a criminal has. It does not forgive the crime at the government level and does not restore legal rights or remove the conviction itself, but a commutation can reduce the amount of prison time someone serve or can enable someone with a death sentence to serve prison time instead – often for life, but it spares them the death penalty. Our commutation private investigators help criminal appeals attorneys with commutations private investigations and applications on a regular basis.

Federal or State-Level Resentencing Hearings:

Criminal defendants can also have their criminal defense lawyers near me petition the courts to re-sentence them to a lesser sentence. This is especially helpful if new evidence becomes known, if the sentence itself was especially harsh, or if the United States Supreme Court has made a favorable ruling that can benefit them with an earlier release date or a reduction of sentence from the death penalty to prison time only.

Appeals to Get Convictions Overturned

Jurisprudence in the USA also includes a series of appeals that puts multiple sets of eyes upon criminal cases to ensure each criminal defendant gets due process and a fair chance. While our pardon and parole private detective knows that court systems in the USA tend to favor financially wealthy whites with the best criminal defense lawyers that money can buy, if a conviction is unsound a judge or set of judges can toss it out or send it back to the lower courts for a retrial.