Yo Mama
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The trial is now over and I can talk about what happened. Overall it took a year from beginning to end and a whole bunch of stress and heartache in between.
I live in a gun-friendly state. Long story short my friend was working experienced somebody road raging on him was not able to get away. Attempted to call the police was not able to get through and took out of firearm as a last resort while driving. He tried to go into a police station. There was nobody there small town. Once police did make contact with my friend they told him he did nothing wrong even gave him his gun back. Told him to have a nice day.
6 months later district attorney sent my friend a love letter saying he's looking at assault with a deadly weapon. 7 years incarceration. Lawyered up cost $10,000 for retainer and about $300 an hour for an attorney. Going to court with travel expenses on top of that as well as investigator costs. Total ended somewhere 15 to 20 thousand to prove his innocence.
We found out part of the problem was a cop who was putting pressure on the prosecutor due to a back story that happened a few years ago with this cop's relative. It involves my friend as a victim.
Took the jury about 30 minutes to come back with not guilty. My friend is going through civil rights attorneys to figure out the next steps.
I live in a gun-friendly state. Long story short my friend was working experienced somebody road raging on him was not able to get away. Attempted to call the police was not able to get through and took out of firearm as a last resort while driving. He tried to go into a police station. There was nobody there small town. Once police did make contact with my friend they told him he did nothing wrong even gave him his gun back. Told him to have a nice day.
6 months later district attorney sent my friend a love letter saying he's looking at assault with a deadly weapon. 7 years incarceration. Lawyered up cost $10,000 for retainer and about $300 an hour for an attorney. Going to court with travel expenses on top of that as well as investigator costs. Total ended somewhere 15 to 20 thousand to prove his innocence.
We found out part of the problem was a cop who was putting pressure on the prosecutor due to a back story that happened a few years ago with this cop's relative. It involves my friend as a victim.
Took the jury about 30 minutes to come back with not guilty. My friend is going through civil rights attorneys to figure out the next steps.