What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? Missouri
I am posting on here for a friend whose daughter was recently arrested and charged with a class C felony. I will try to give as many details as possible.
Saturday the daughter and her boyfriend went to the store and purchased some cold tablets, alcohol, coffee filters, peroxide, and some heat at Wal-Mart. On this same day they purchased some Iodine at MFA. I guess that they require ID to purchase some of these things and when they ran her ID and she had a warrant for her arrest in another county on a bad check. So they questioned them both, her being the driver, boyfriend being the passenger. They took her to the police department, and let him go, but since he didn't have a driver's liscense he had to be picked up by her mom. At the jail, they questioned her about the chemicals in the car. At first I guess she denied any knowledge of what they were for, but as the night went on I guess this police officer talked her into confessing that she knew what it was purchased for and that she purchased it. She is telling her mom that she was told by the officer what to write on the statement. So she was charged with a class C felony RSMo:195.420. She has been in jail since saturday night on a 20,000 bond for the felony charge and a 750 cash bond of the check out of the other county. With Monday being a holiday she couldn't get to see her public defender, which she didn't apply for until Sunday afternoon, until today. He told her, according to her, that she would not get any jail time for this, that he was going to file for a new judge, and that the most she could get is 7 years probation.
So here are my questions:
1. Is it true that is the most she could get?
2. Was the way they got her confession illegal?
3. Can they still bring charges against the boyfriend, just for being in the car?
4. Was just having those chemicals in the vehicle enough to charge her or did she give them that when she signed the confession.
I just wanted to add here, that I DO NOT believe this girl, I think she has her mother fooled into thinking she is a victim of this and that it was being purchased for someone else. The questions I am asking are those that we have been arguing about for the last 3 days. Her mother is in serious denial and the daughter, boyfriend, and daughters dad are all in on this and we all know it but can't make the mother see that. The dad and the boyfriend are just sitting back letting her take the wrap for all of it instead of claiming their part in it.
I am posting on here for a friend whose daughter was recently arrested and charged with a class C felony. I will try to give as many details as possible.
Saturday the daughter and her boyfriend went to the store and purchased some cold tablets, alcohol, coffee filters, peroxide, and some heat at Wal-Mart. On this same day they purchased some Iodine at MFA. I guess that they require ID to purchase some of these things and when they ran her ID and she had a warrant for her arrest in another county on a bad check. So they questioned them both, her being the driver, boyfriend being the passenger. They took her to the police department, and let him go, but since he didn't have a driver's liscense he had to be picked up by her mom. At the jail, they questioned her about the chemicals in the car. At first I guess she denied any knowledge of what they were for, but as the night went on I guess this police officer talked her into confessing that she knew what it was purchased for and that she purchased it. She is telling her mom that she was told by the officer what to write on the statement. So she was charged with a class C felony RSMo:195.420. She has been in jail since saturday night on a 20,000 bond for the felony charge and a 750 cash bond of the check out of the other county. With Monday being a holiday she couldn't get to see her public defender, which she didn't apply for until Sunday afternoon, until today. He told her, according to her, that she would not get any jail time for this, that he was going to file for a new judge, and that the most she could get is 7 years probation.
So here are my questions:
1. Is it true that is the most she could get?
2. Was the way they got her confession illegal?
3. Can they still bring charges against the boyfriend, just for being in the car?
4. Was just having those chemicals in the vehicle enough to charge her or did she give them that when she signed the confession.
I just wanted to add here, that I DO NOT believe this girl, I think she has her mother fooled into thinking she is a victim of this and that it was being purchased for someone else. The questions I am asking are those that we have been arguing about for the last 3 days. Her mother is in serious denial and the daughter, boyfriend, and daughters dad are all in on this and we all know it but can't make the mother see that. The dad and the boyfriend are just sitting back letting her take the wrap for all of it instead of claiming their part in it.