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legitlogic
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I need some help here guys.....
#7533476 - 10/18/07 10:27 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ok heres the deal i got caught in a fucking school zone with some somas and about a quarter of weed. I also had a prior misdemeanor for MJ possession. So they slapped me with a felony for being in a drug zone and 2 misdemeanors. Well my lawyer was some how able to get the felony off of me and im left with the 2 misdemeanors. But my options he gave me are horrible and i cant stop thinking about what to do.
Options: 1. Pay $200 and keep the convictions and lose my license for a year. 2. Do 1 year of probation and keep the convictions. 3. Do drug court for a year and at the end get my recored expunged cleared off.
But the only problem with the drug court is i get piss tested every fucking week for a year. Along with having to go to NA meetings and bullshit. I just dont know what to do its making me literally go crazy because if i do the drug court ill have no life for a damn year and ill go crazy not being able to do anything. Somebody please respond with some help here id really appreciate it.
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Re: I need some help here guys..... [Re: legitlogic]
#7533501 - 10/18/07 10:34 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Option 4: go to trial. Pleas never end up as good as getting found not guilty. Get a good lawyer and go over everything. It wouldnt hurt if you happened to find out the arresting officer was going to be in hawaii for the week of your trial or something exceptionaly fourtunate along those lines.
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legitlogic
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Re: I need some help here guys..... [Re: rodfarva]
#7533541 - 10/18/07 10:45 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ive got a good lawyer im paying him $15,000 fucking dollers. He says if i go to trial ill still be found guilty. Man this is soooo fucked up.
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Re: I need some help here guys..... [Re: legitlogic]
#7533672 - 10/18/07 11:38 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'd go for the option allowing the sealing, but thats me. Think about how the convication would affect employment or licensing in the future.
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Re: I need some help here guys..... [Re: johnm214]
#7533731 - 10/19/07 12:22 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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option 3, sounds like you're getting off easy. if you can't go without drugs for a year you've got a problem. plus you can get around drug tests. there are substances they don't test for, and some legal substances you could use ;0
but seriously option 3.
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Re: I need some help here guys..... [Re: usg543]
#7533748 - 10/19/07 12:29 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Does your lawyer specialize in these types of cases? do you have any references from former clients of this lawyer? Have you shoped any other legal representation?
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Re: I need some help here guys..... [Re: usg543]
#7534459 - 10/19/07 08:18 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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usg543 said: option 3, sounds like you're getting off easy. if you can't go without drugs for a year you've got a problem. plus you can get around drug tests. there are substances they don't test for, and some legal substances you could use ;0
but seriously option 3.
Absolutely.
How important can drugs be?
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Re: I need some help here guys..... [Re: legitlogic]
#7534553 - 10/19/07 09:02 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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yeah, I gotta say 3.
you can beat a weekly drug test. Plus NA is a great place to meet drug connections 
seriously though, its all about how your present effects your future. In 5 years, you can either look back and laugh, or look back and be bitter because now you can't get a decent job with your record. 5 years from now it won't matter to you that you had to spend a whole year playing sober, but it would matter if you couldn't get the job you wanted because of this mess.
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Re: I need some help here guys..... [Re: wps]
#7534687 - 10/19/07 09:52 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Option 4: go to trial. Pleas never end up as good as getting found not guilty. Get a good lawyer and go over everything. It wouldnt hurt if you happened to find out the arresting officer was going to be in hawaii for the week of your trial or something exceptionaly fourtunate along those lines.
LAwyers can help alot, but one thing they cannot do is make evidence dissapear. The officer being gone for a week? They would just postpone the trial til a later date.
Number three is by far the best option. Just drink beer until it's over. Then learn your lesson next time and don't do drugs on school grounds. Don't you ever read the signs around the school that say "drug free zone"? I admit I've done it before, but it shouldn't be done.
Losing the ability to do drugs for a year is not a big deal compared to having a criminal record for the rest of your life. Your employment career will be seriously messed up forever with just 1 felony on your record. And once it's on, it's very difficult to get off. Waiting Seven years a good lawyer, that's probably what it would take.
Your lawyer must be really good, because it seems they would have no reason to let you off so easy.
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Re: I need some help here guys..... [Re: legitlogic]
#7536244 - 10/19/07 04:33 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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legitlogic said: Ive got a good lawyer im paying him $15,000 fucking dollers. He says if i go to trial ill still be found guilty. Man this is soooo fucked up.
what?!?! 15grand?
trust me i know how much it sucks to be in your situation. but seriously, a $100 court appointed lawyer would of done the same exact job. its not like your lawyer is doing ANYTHING at all. this is an open and shut case. whether u got a court appointed lawyer, or some expensive one, it woulda been the same outcome.
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Re: I need some help here guys..... [Re: john706]
#7537349 - 10/19/07 09:24 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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yeah man if you are paying your lawyer 15 grand and he can't get all this to go away... something is not right. fire his ass.
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Re: I need some help here guys..... [Re: usg543]
#7538648 - 10/20/07 09:23 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I completely disagree. A legal pretender would not have gotten him option number three. no way. Hiring a legal defender is almost never a good idea. I think they work in concert with the justice system and they have very little incentive to work as hard to defend you.
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Re: I need some help here guys..... [Re: legitlogic]
#7540033 - 10/20/07 05:06 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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OPTION 5: EAT YOUR DRUGS !!
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Edited by 2FiNiTe (10/20/07 05:06 PM)
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legitlogic
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Re: I need some help here guys..... [Re: 2FiNiTe]
#7541193 - 10/20/07 11:51 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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2FiNiTe said: OPTION 5: EAT YOUR DRUGS !!
Yea dude dont you think i would have done that i was fucking passed out at a damn stop sign like a dumbass in a schoolzone almost home......
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Re: I need some help here guys..... [Re: legitlogic]
#7541370 - 10/21/07 01:28 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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legitlogic said:
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2FiNiTe said: OPTION 5: EAT YOUR DRUGS !!
Yea dude dont you think i would have done that i was fucking passed out at a damn stop sign like a dumbass in a schoolzone almost home......
don't tell me you were driving...
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Re: I need some help here guys..... [Re: usg543]
#7542725 - 10/21/07 01:08 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I would take option 3. Can they test for shrooms or LSD? You could probably get away with drinking too.
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legitlogic
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Re: I need some help here guys..... [Re: allreadyused]
#7544616 - 10/21/07 09:00 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Nah they dont test for shrooms or lucy and yes i still do them both. I still love tripping even without smoking the lovely MJ. Im also prescribed to klonopin so even though they test for benzos im still allowed to take em i guess thats a pluss. Even though my benzo tolerance is way way above what one would call normal . They do test for alcohol with those damn strips that go under your tounge so i can really only drink 2-3 days after they test me so i dont get caught. But im going for the drug court i need the help anyways. A year is going to be like 20,000 years for me though. Time is already going by alot slower .
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Re: I need some help here guys..... [Re: legitlogic]
#7544660 - 10/21/07 09:13 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Fuck the laws are tight in the bible belt, god bless the usa! not
glad things are a bit more laid back here in canada
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Re: I need some help here guys..... [Re: legitlogic]
#7547580 - 10/22/07 04:32 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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are you out of your mind?
you get tagged with felony charges and have a chance to get away free of ANY convictions and you're balking because, wah wah, it means you can't smoke pot for a whole year?
do the drug court. you'll thank yourself when you grow up.
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Re: I need some help here guys..... [Re: legitlogic]
#7547604 - 10/22/07 04:41 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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just so you're aware of how easy you have a chance to get off, consider this....
i got busted in a school zone (a university campus where i was a student) in PA with 3.8 grams of mushrooms. i was also charged with a felony (plus another felony and 3 misdemeanors for a total of 5 charges). my options were:
1. pay $2700 and keep one felony conviction, lose my license for a year, do at least 3 months in prison, and do 20 months in prison or strict parole.
2. go to trial and risk a conviction on all charges and a mandatory two year prison term in the state pen.
3. become an informant.
your options are not horrible. lighten up. you have a chance to make out extremely well. take advantage of the drug court if you have any sense at all.
Edited by wilshire (10/22/07 06:00 PM)
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