Legal Queen for a Day

They don`t sit down with you, sign a daily letter from a queen, agree to talk to you, agree not to pursue you, and then turn around and stab you back and take criminal action against you. I have seen this very rarely in the twenty-five years that I have practiced criminal defense. In a legal context, the term “queen for a day” refers to a written agreement between federal prosecutors and a person suspected of having committed a crime. As part of the agreement, you agree to inform the government of your knowledge of criminal activity, and the prosecutor agrees not to use your statements against you in any subsequent trial. You couldn`t just go out, get witnesses based on what you said, and then charge or arrest yourself for a new crime based on the information you gave during the Poffer session after signing the Queen for a daily letter. What exactly is an offer and what are the dangers of entering into an offer contract (also known as Profferbrief) with the federal government? Offer or “Queen for a Day” letters are written agreements between federal prosecutors and those under criminal investigation that allow these individuals to report to the government on their knowledge of the crimes, with the purported assurance that their words will not be used against them in subsequent trials. (Individuals may be witnesses, subjects, or targets of a federal investigation, although they are the subjects and targets that make the most offers.) When faced with federal charges, chances are you`ll hear the terms “letter of offer,” “offer agreement,” or “queen for a day.” These terms mean the same thing: a written agreement between you and a federal prosecutor in which you provide the government with information about the alleged crime, and the attorney agrees not to use that information against you in court of law under certain circumstances. This whole concept of a Queen`s one-day letter or “letter of offer” has to do with prosecutors agreeing to give a written document in a federal case that basically says that if a criminal accused meets him in a federal case, he will be protected, to the extent that they say so. In other words, what they say cannot be used against them in law enforcement.

So basically, you`re a queen for a day, no matter what you say. I don`t care. They can`t use it against you. Keep in mind that there are some risks to making a queen deal for one day. Namely, prosecutors may: If you enter into any of these agreements, you will offer information orally in an offer or queen for a one-day “session” attended by you, your attorney, the Assistant U.S. Attorney (“AUSA”), and one or more federal officials. (Recently, regulators have attended Proffer meetings where the government conducts parallel civil and criminal investigations.) You should think of a Proffer session as an overview where you show federal authorities what you can put on the table if they make a deal with you. There is one exception. If you say certain things during your meeting with the government and you sign a daily letter to the Queen, and then later, for example, there is a trial and you say certain things at the court hearing that are different from what you said during the Queen for a daily briefing. That would be an exception to the fact that the government could not use your testimony against you.

At this point, they would be able to accuse you with statements you might have made that are different and important during the Queen for a daily letter of offer session. But a part of you who sits in government is this queen for a daily letter, and basically, it`s a comprehensive document that talks about your responsibilities, what the responsibilities of the government are, but the main protection that this queen gives you for a daily letter is protection when you say something that weighs on you. What made you look for Queen for a daily letter? Please let us know where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible). So for more explanation of what a Queen for a Day letter is and how it might relate to your case, it`s best to sit down with someone like me, go through your full case 00 all the details, all the facts where you`re protected by solicitor-client privilege, and hire every lawyer you meet, I can`t talk to anyone about the discussion, and then the decision can be made if you really want to sit down with the government and if a Queen`s letter for a day makes sense to you in your federal criminal case and what is your best strategy. Well, another exception is, let`s say, they can get the information themselves. You don`t really need your testimony to do that, so they could still prosecute you for a crime they may not have charged you with yet. It`s a tricky area because often the only way to do it is to talk to them, so it would have to be covered by the Queen for a daily letter, but that would be something your lawyer would have to argue and most of the time prosecutors don`t.