vcpirate99
Junior Member
What is the name of your state?TN
i would like someonewho has any knowledge of court proceedings to help me out if at all possible. i was in court for an arraignment. i was arrested for shooting in self defense a bb gun at my roommate who was threatening to do harm to myself and my fiance. well, during the arraignment, the judge never offered me nor did he ask me if i needed or wanted a public defender. he actually, told me i had to defend myself. now, in the case before me in the same courtroom, the judge asked the defendant if he was working because he had asked for a public defender. when the defendant said that he wasnt working the judge told him since he wasnt supporting the city in taxes from wages he couldnt assign him a public defender. so when all was said and done, i got stuck defending myself in a criminal case. when the trial came about a week later, the questions that i had lined up to ask that i thought to be relevant to the case, the judge would not let me ask ANY questions at all. i got stuck with probation with a possibility if the judge felt like it, a year in jail. i was never informed that i only had 10 days to appeal the ruling. and after many attempts to contact the courthouse and the DA, i got nowhere because no one would talk to me without a lawyer. the whole point that i was trying to make is that i didnt have the money to hire a lawyer in the first place. now i am stuck with supervised probation which cuts into my job one day a week making it hard to make ends meet. granted what i did was hurtfull to my roommate, but it was done in self defense, but i was not able to bring that out and the judge in my mind was and is corrupt. is there anyone out there that can tell me my options that i have now? i was told by one lawyer "ambulance chaser", that if i tried to do anything against the ruling now, that the judge could take me out of probation and send me to jail for a longer period of time. if anyone could help, that would be great, thanks.
i would like someonewho has any knowledge of court proceedings to help me out if at all possible. i was in court for an arraignment. i was arrested for shooting in self defense a bb gun at my roommate who was threatening to do harm to myself and my fiance. well, during the arraignment, the judge never offered me nor did he ask me if i needed or wanted a public defender. he actually, told me i had to defend myself. now, in the case before me in the same courtroom, the judge asked the defendant if he was working because he had asked for a public defender. when the defendant said that he wasnt working the judge told him since he wasnt supporting the city in taxes from wages he couldnt assign him a public defender. so when all was said and done, i got stuck defending myself in a criminal case. when the trial came about a week later, the questions that i had lined up to ask that i thought to be relevant to the case, the judge would not let me ask ANY questions at all. i got stuck with probation with a possibility if the judge felt like it, a year in jail. i was never informed that i only had 10 days to appeal the ruling. and after many attempts to contact the courthouse and the DA, i got nowhere because no one would talk to me without a lawyer. the whole point that i was trying to make is that i didnt have the money to hire a lawyer in the first place. now i am stuck with supervised probation which cuts into my job one day a week making it hard to make ends meet. granted what i did was hurtfull to my roommate, but it was done in self defense, but i was not able to bring that out and the judge in my mind was and is corrupt. is there anyone out there that can tell me my options that i have now? i was told by one lawyer "ambulance chaser", that if i tried to do anything against the ruling now, that the judge could take me out of probation and send me to jail for a longer period of time. if anyone could help, that would be great, thanks.