Criminal defence lawyers in Germany - Rademacher & Horst - specialise in defending clients in the entire spectrum of criminal law. 

Please call us or email us at duesseldorf@ra-anwalt.de to find out how we can help you.

You can't invent experience. We are cerified specialist lawyers for criminal law and have defended our clients over two decades.

Criminal defense lawyer on German sexual criminal law

You always have to find the best legal assistance. We agree on that, and you really have to make an effort to do so. Nothing comes by itself or by chance. In sexual criminal law, it depends on your choice and on the competence and sound judgment of your defense lawyer.

Defense in sexual criminal law can begin even before a criminal procedure is initiated against you. Interference by the investigating authorities, such as house searches or arrests, can be prevented by early active intervention if a criminal complaint is imminent. And more than half of all investigations are dropped at the stage of investigation and there is a lot that can be done to ensure that your case is also closed as quickly as possible.

The arrest warrant is a legally strictly regulated instrument of criminal prosecution available to the public prosecutor, which may only be used as long as the legal requirements are met.

The criminal defense lawyer persistently uses negotiation strategies, arguments, and applications to oppose pretrial detention. This can best be done in advance of the issuance and, in any case, before the execution of an arrest warrant, and second best when the arrest warrant has already been executed.

In parallel with negotiation strategies, the legal instruments available to us offer considerable opportunities to achieve the revocation or at least the suspension of an arrest warrant. If this is successful, it also significantly improves the defense's prospects in the entire criminal procedure.

Despite the filing of an indictment, a trial is not inevitable. The German Code of Criminal Procedure (§ 203 StPO) always requires “sufficient” suspicion of a crime. Otherwise the court may not open the main proceedings after the indictment has been filed and cannot set a date for a court hearing.

In this legally regulated “intermediate proceedings” between the receipt of the indictment and the decision on whether to open the main proceedings, individual evidence may be taken to dispel existing suspicion of a crime, either in whole or in part.

It is not at the discretion of the court whether it takes the evidence requested by the defense lawyer. The German criminal court must deal with this before deciding whether to open the main proceedings.

You can expect us to work with care, perseverance and attention to detail. This is the only way to achieve results.

As criminal defense lawyers in Germany we have been defending clients in cases with international implications for many years. This includes

• the possible enforcement of foreign criminal judgments in Germany

• international arrest warrants and the resulting extradition proceedings

You can read more about this on our website www.auslieferungsverfahren.de

In recent years, we have obtained numerous decisions from the highest German court (Federal Constitutional Court) in favor of our clients in this field and, thanks to our many years of experience in criminal proceedings with international aspects, we now have excellent contacts with criminal defense attorneys in many other countries.