Mitigation and Sentencing Advocacy

• Palmer Investigative Services, Mitigation Specialists use a team of mitigation specialists on every case, not just one specialist.
• Palmer Investigative Services, Mitigation Specialists have team members with graduate degrees.  Robert A. Palmer, PhD has a doctorate in criminal justice with a specialty in mitigation investigations.
• Palmer Investigative Services, Mitigation Specialists meet the American Bar Association’s Standards for Mitigation Function of Defense Teams in Death Penalty Cases, dated June 20, 2008.
• Palmer Investigative Services, Mitigation Specialists have a very high percent success rate of convincing juries and judges to give lesser sentences due to mitigating circumstances.
• Palmer Investigative Services, Mitigation Specialists works within your budget.  On non-capital cases we can do things hourly or on a flat rate basis.  We can offer suggestions on how to hold down costs, such as having the defendant come to us for our intake process.  On capital cases we also have some options.  We can bill a lower hourly rate plus expenses or we can bill a higher hourly rate and include expenses.  Either way, we will still be far lower than the national average for expert mitigation specialist work.
• Palmer Investigative Services, Mitigation Specialists have 30 years experience in locating and interviewing witnesses for family history.   We evaluate cognitive, emotional, neurological, and biological developmental delays caused by abuse, deprivation, neglect, environment and trauma.
• Palmer Investigative Services, Mitigation Specialists are all members of the prestigious National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA) and the National Alliance of Sentencing Advocates and Mitigation Specialists (NASAMS).
• Palmer Investigative Services, Mitigation Specialists coordinate with a list of specialists to address specific areas of expertise such as: Gang Experts, Death Row Experts, Neuropsychological Experts and False Confession Experts.