Criminal Defense

Geiger Law defends people charged with criminal offenses in Flagler County and the surrounding Seventh Judicial Circuit — DUI, driving while license suspended, drug possession, theft-related charges, and other misdemeanors and felonies.

Attorney Andrea Burns spent twelve years as an Assistant District Attorney in the Queens County District Attorney's Office in New York, including in its Homicide Trials Bureau, prosecuting cases from arrest through trial. That experience is not a line on a resume; it is a working knowledge of how the state builds a case, where those cases are weak, and what a prosecutor will and will not do.

What we do first

Before anything else, we look at the stop, the search and the statements. A great many criminal cases are decided not at trial but on whether the officer had lawful grounds to stop you, whether the search that followed was within the scope of that stop, and whether your statements were taken after a proper advisement of rights. Where those things went wrong, the evidence can be suppressed, and a suppressed case frequently becomes no case.

The consequences nobody warns you about

A misdemeanor conviction in Florida carries up to a year in county jail — but the sentence is often not the real cost. Convictions surface in background checks for jobs, professional licenses, apartment applications, firearm rights and immigration status, sometimes for decades. Understanding the collateral consequences before you accept a plea is the whole point of having a lawyer.

Straight answers

We will tell you honestly where your case stands. If the state's evidence is strong and a negotiated resolution is the right outcome, we will say so and we will negotiate hard. If it is weak, we will say that too, and we will be ready to try it.