"Hard evidence, rather than abstract legal argument, is what decides most criminal cases. You must be fully in command of the facts in order to be fully in command of the case. Do not let the prosecutor surprise you by any of its evidence."  - F. Lee Bailey

Austen & Watson uncovers the "reasonable doubt"  a jury must weigh to acquit. It UNCOVERS, but DOES NOT CREATE, that reasonable doubt.

• Do you feel you have been railroaded into a nightmare that might end in prison?

• Do you feel wrongly accused in a criminal justice system and a media frenzy that wrongly seems to  presume you are guilty until proven innocent?

 • Have the media picked up only on the police side of the story and you are losing family, friends and maybe your career or business? Is jail time looming?

 • In America, everyone deserves a fair trial and that includes not just strong and fair legal representation, but independent investigation that takes a hard look at the case built against you and the evidence, including witnesses law enforcement questioned and just maybe the ones it did not. Timelines can show inconsistencies, gaps, even false narratives. New interviews or other evidence can reveal lies and impeach star witnesses. 

 • The worst miscarriage of justice that our forefathers foresaw and tried to prevent in the U.S. Constitution was the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime he or she did not commit.

• Eyewitness Misidentification - The Innocence Project, which has overturned more than 350 murder cases in its 25 years, notes misidentification of the suspect played a key factor in 70% of those cases.
• Coerced or False Confessions or Admissions
• Incorrect Expert Witness Testimony or Faulty/Misused Forensics
• Informants or Snitches who want something.
• Just, plain old, bad lawyering

"Sometimes prosecutors can twist (informants/witnesses/co-defendants) not only into singing, but into composing, into making something up against somebody. They're so desperate to make a deal. If you can get yourself out of trouble by turning somebody else in, a lawyer is going to help you try to do that." - Alan Dershowitz

• The job of your attorney is to take the facts at hand and strategize to make the best legal case possible.

 • The job of the private investigator is not to solve the case but to analyze the prosecutor's case against you for inconsistencies, gaps, untruths and even new witnesses and new evidence. We give your defense attorney command of the facts so that he or she can make the best legal case.