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Need a Criminal Defense Attorney's Opinion
What is the name of your state?TX
Here's part of the situation.
Kid has been arrested and charged with 3 different counts of burglary.
Only known witnesses are a kid who participated and one who has an axe to grind. All adult witnesses cannot make a positive ID of the "kids" they saw.
Kid 1 (arrested kid) also has a charge pending for possession of a single perscription tablet of Tylenol 3. (This charge is not one of those being brought to trial in this issue)
DA offered his lawyer this: If the kid will plead guilty on the "Tylenol" they will drop all 3 burglary counts.
Does this sound like the DA has a really weak case on the burglaries to you???
BTW this is the son of a friend of mine.
The kid did help carry away some of the tools in the first burglary, but in the third several other kids have established an alibi for the boy in that he wasn't even present.
Suffice it to say there are other circumstances that the police were not aware of which would impeach the testimony of the kid with the axe to grind, but bringing this to light would cause another girl to possibly be charged with "unauthorized use of a vehicle" (she took a neighbor's truck drove around in it and then brought it back.) Police don't know about this part they do know that some things were taken from this truck.
Any opinions???
IAAL I'm curious what your take on this would be.
What is the name of your state?TX
Here's part of the situation.
Kid has been arrested and charged with 3 different counts of burglary.
Only known witnesses are a kid who participated and one who has an axe to grind. All adult witnesses cannot make a positive ID of the "kids" they saw.
Kid 1 (arrested kid) also has a charge pending for possession of a single perscription tablet of Tylenol 3. (This charge is not one of those being brought to trial in this issue)
DA offered his lawyer this: If the kid will plead guilty on the "Tylenol" they will drop all 3 burglary counts.
Does this sound like the DA has a really weak case on the burglaries to you???
BTW this is the son of a friend of mine.
The kid did help carry away some of the tools in the first burglary, but in the third several other kids have established an alibi for the boy in that he wasn't even present.
Suffice it to say there are other circumstances that the police were not aware of which would impeach the testimony of the kid with the axe to grind, but bringing this to light would cause another girl to possibly be charged with "unauthorized use of a vehicle" (she took a neighbor's truck drove around in it and then brought it back.) Police don't know about this part they do know that some things were taken from this truck.
Any opinions???
IAAL I'm curious what your take on this would be.
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