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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 87816" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Wellll....Ok...here goes.</p><p></p><p>The answer is...he was indicted by either a grand jury indictment or a preliminary hearing where they (the judge) decided there was enough evidence to sustain the indictment. </p><p></p><p>Now...comes the time to decide if you want to hire a lawyer or go with the PD and see if the PD can get a plea bargain. Its entirely possible the PD can get them to plead it down to be honest. Let me ask you, where do the PD's come from in your area? Are they lawyers from the community that rotate through the PD's office taking cases? Or do you have a set PD office that has a staff of PD's that are fresh out of law school? Here we have the regular lawyers from the area so you could well get the same lawyer you might pay big bucks to being assigned to you as a PD!</p><p></p><p>Now that doesnt mean he might put in quite as much work on your case as he would if you were paying him but he really should. </p><p></p><p>In your sons case he is being charged with third degree burglary. I would go look that up on your states website and find out what the maximum amount of time he could get for that is. What you do is find out what level felony that is and then go find out what amount of time that level felony carries with no prior adult record since he doesnt have one. </p><p></p><p>For instance if a Level H felony carried a 5 year sentence...they might plead it down to 1. Or plead it down to a misdemeanor of attempted burglary or something.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 87816, member: 1514"] Wellll....Ok...here goes. The answer is...he was indicted by either a grand jury indictment or a preliminary hearing where they (the judge) decided there was enough evidence to sustain the indictment. Now...comes the time to decide if you want to hire a lawyer or go with the PD and see if the PD can get a plea bargain. Its entirely possible the PD can get them to plead it down to be honest. Let me ask you, where do the PD's come from in your area? Are they lawyers from the community that rotate through the PD's office taking cases? Or do you have a set PD office that has a staff of PD's that are fresh out of law school? Here we have the regular lawyers from the area so you could well get the same lawyer you might pay big bucks to being assigned to you as a PD! Now that doesnt mean he might put in quite as much work on your case as he would if you were paying him but he really should. In your sons case he is being charged with third degree burglary. I would go look that up on your states website and find out what the maximum amount of time he could get for that is. What you do is find out what level felony that is and then go find out what amount of time that level felony carries with no prior adult record since he doesnt have one. For instance if a Level H felony carried a 5 year sentence...they might plead it down to 1. Or plead it down to a misdemeanor of attempted burglary or something. [/QUOTE]
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