What is the most important attribute in a Criminal Defense Attorney?
Aggressive Advocacy.
An attorney who isn’t afraid to stand up for you and your rights, no matter how long it takes.
Attorney Bauer is your Aggressive Advocate.
Joe started his career in the prosecutor’s office and participated in four jury trials and countless bench trials in the counties of Porter, Tippecanoe, and Berrien, MI, securing convictions on misdemeanors and low-level felonies.
Understanding the prosecutorial process only broadens Attorney Bauers’ knowledge of the Due Process and helps him in negotiating your case for the best possible route.
After gaining experience from the Prosecutor's office, Joe began his career in Criminal Defense. To highlight a few of his trials;
- Tippecanoe County: Defendant was facing 8.5 years: NOT GUILTY
- Wabash County: Defendant was facing 6.5 years: NOT GUILTY (found guilty of lesser misdemeanor charge and only served 60 days)
- Lake County: Defendant was facing 6 years: NOT GUILTY
- Kosciusko County: Defendant was facing 8 years: NOT GUILTY
- Kosciusko County: Defendant was facing 3.5 years: NOT GUILTY
- Fulton County: Defendant was facing LIFE: ACQUITTED ON MURDER
- Fulton County: Defendant facing 37.5 years: Plead down to 3 years Probation.
- Fulton County: Defendant Facing 12 years: Plead down to 2 years Probation.
- Marshall County: Defendant facing 8.5 years: Plead down to 2 years Probation.
- Floyd County: Defendant was facing 33.5 years: Plead down to 128 days.
Attorney Bauer has collectively saved over 150 years of people’s lives by not being afraid to take cases to trial because he believed in his clients.
Time is important to Bauer. He believes that being readily available for his clients is necessary to provide them with the best service. Joe has an office cell phone he uses for receiving texts from clients that either he or his paralegal, Sara, have at all times.
