Experience matters when your future is on the line. At Oakley & Oakley, LLC, we have been standing up for the accused in Lexington and Fayette County for years, handling the most complex criminal cases at both the state and federal levels. We have successfully defended clients before the Kentucky Supreme Court, US District Court, as well as the US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.

This means we are intimately familiar with the laws and procedures that will affect your criminal case. Attorney Jay Oakley is well-known and respected in courts in and around Fayette County. This means he knows the prosecutors who will seek to put you behind bars and has a rapport with the judges who will hold your fate in their hands.

Extensive daily experience and legal insight can be a huge asset in fighting criminal charges.

In preparing its case, the government will seek the help of local experts. For more than a decade, we have seen first-hand the impact expert testimony can have on a case. If prosecutors have experts working to build a criminal case against you, we will spare no expense in bringing in specialists and professionals on your behalf.

That might mean relying on an accident reconstructionist or forensic specialist during an investigation or a medical professional or appraiser evaluating evidence. Where the other side has experts working a certain angle, we will have one to match to level the playing field.

Prosecutors may try to scare you into accepting a plea bargain with claims of evidence supporting the charges against you. They may very well have evidence. However, the focus should be on whether that evidence is usable in a court of law. If the evidence has been obtained in a violation of your rights – no matter how small – it cannot be used against you.

Thus, we will conduct an exhaustive examination of the state’s evidence. We will pick apart the process of how that evidence was first identified and how it came to be in the state’s possession. We can track the chain of custody to find potential flaws. If we find that evidence was seized illegally or that your 4th Amendment rights were infringed upon, we will ask a judge to throw it out. Without evidence, the government may have no choice but to dismiss the charges against you.

State or federal law enforcement cannot stop you or place you under arrest for no reason. They can only do so with reasonable suspicion or probable cause. If they lack these, the arrest is not legitimate.

We will dig deep and analyze the circumstances leading up to and surrounding your arrest. We will listen closely to your side of the story, interview witnesses, review police reports, and scrutinize all available evidence. We will also do a deep dive into the arresting officer’s history for the possibility of making unlawful arrests. If a mistake was made, we will waste no time in bringing it to the court’s attention. Charges filed based on unlawful arrests cannot stand.