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Criminal attorneys in Cologne
Your nationwide law firm for criminal law
Specialist Law Firm BS LEGAL
Competent criminal defence by your specialist attorney for criminal law
As criminal defence lawyers, we offer you forward-looking and competent defence based on years of experience at fair costs. In Cologne and throughout Germany, we will accompany you through your court proceedings as a specialist lawyer for criminal law.
Professional advice and defence in criminal law
As a lawyer for criminal law in Cologne, we ensure your best possible defence. Prosecution and court proceedings not only cause great psychological stress for those affected and their relatives, but in extreme cases can also jeopardise their livelihood. Professional and foresighted advice from an experienced specialist lawyer for criminal law is indispensable here. As criminal defence lawyers, we are at your side not only in our law firm in Cologne, but also nationwide in questions concerning indictment, search, penalty order and pre-trial detention.

Veit Strittmatter
Attorney
- Phone:+49 (0) 221 94 336 530
- Email:strittmatter@bs-legal.de
Köln
BS LEGAL Rechtsanwälte
Dürener Straße 270
50935 Köln
Mo.-Fr. 09:00–13:00 & 14:00–17:30
Fr. 09:00 – 14:00
Tel.: +49 (0) 221 94 336 530
Fax: +49 (0) 221 94 336 531
Trautskirchen
BS LEGAL Rechtsanwälte
Merzbacher Straße 23
90619 Trautskirchen
Mo.-Do. 09:00–12:00 & 13:00–16:00
Fr. 08:00 – 14:00
Tel.: +49 (0) 910 79 24 59 20
Fax: +49 (0) 910 79 24 59 21
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In dubio pro reo? You’d better trust your criminal lawyer in Cologne!
Successful criminal defence requires experienced trial lawyers who make the client’s position heard. Do not hope that criminal proceedings will settle themselves and that the public prosecutor’s office will investigate 100% objectively. Instead, rely on the competent defence of an experienced criminal lawyer. We secure your rights in court proceedings. Whether in the preliminary, intermediate or main proceedings — at every stage of the process you can be advised and defended by your specialist lawyer for criminal law in Cologne. Hiring a criminal defence lawyer at an early stage helps to avoid mistakes and to ensure the best possible outcome of the trial. With the professional expertise that goes without saying for us, we see it as our task to explain all procedures and strategies to you as transparently and comprehensibly as possible throughout the criminal proceedings. You can discuss and assess possible decisions and courses of action in detail with us in consultation with your criminal lawyer in Cologne.
Talk is silver, silence is gold
“He is to be advised that according to the law he is free to comment on the accusation or not to testify on the matter”
(§ 136 para. 1 p.2 Code of Criminal Procedure)
Depending on the stage of the proceedings, it is important to act quickly. If you have received an indictment, your lawyer for criminal law will apply for an extension of the time limit set in accordance with section 201 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, during which you can raise objections to the opening of the proceedings. If you have received a police summons, we inform the investigating authority that no statement will be made before the files are inspected. In any case, we apply to the public prosecutor’s office or the court for inspection of the files.
The inspection of files enables your lawyer for criminal law to gain a comprehensive view of the evidence and to clarify whether and which mistakes were made by the investigating authorities and whether individual pieces of evidence can be used at all. Often, insufficient instructions to the accused, unlawful search warrants or other procedural errors are found in the course of the preliminary investigation. An indictment can also be invalid if the information on the charge is so insufficient that the offence cannot be sufficiently specified in terms of time and place.
Personal consultation and support by experienced criminal defence attorney
In a personal consultation with us, you will discuss the contents of the file with your criminal lawyer and clarify the further defence strategy. This is strictly based on the realistic defence objective (acquittal, discontinuation, lowest possible sentence). We will explain to you the exact course of any court proceedings and why which motions (motions for evidence, motions for suspension, motions for discontinuance, motions for bias) will be made or not made by us. As specialised lawyers for criminal law, we fight nationwide at fair costs and with all the legal means at our disposal for the optimal outcome of your court case. The positive feedback and evaluations from our clients motivate us anew every day!