feioncastor
Junior Member
What is the name of your state?Arizona.
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As the images depict, my father could not have removed the sign from its resting place, based on where the finger prints are. He literally could not have.
When he found the sign by a dumpster, he picked it up, placed it in his truck, and headed home. If he had arrived home, he would've learned that the sign belonged to a local business, and would've promptly returned it. It was later in the evening, so he couldn't see what was written on the sign, if anything at all, until he got home.
But on his way home, he was stopped for a minor traffic violation, and the officer saw the sign in the back of his truck, contacted the business owner, who confirmed the sign was currently missing, and took the sign, and charged my father with theft.
In court, my father has been denied the right to an attorney on the grounds that his crime is not punishable by jail-time. I was under the impression that in all criminal cases, you have the right to an attorney, but the judges in this area are bullies. The prosecutor, on the day of the hearing, changed the charges against my father, and my father was not told that in the state of Arizona, you have the right to contest such an action from a prosecutor, so he said nothing as they charged him with a totally different crime.
But it's clear that he didn't take the sing from its storage, but later found it, after someone else had removed it.
In fact, had he not found it there, it probably would've been thrown away the next morning by the dump truck, and the owner would not have recovered it.
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As the images depict, my father could not have removed the sign from its resting place, based on where the finger prints are. He literally could not have.
When he found the sign by a dumpster, he picked it up, placed it in his truck, and headed home. If he had arrived home, he would've learned that the sign belonged to a local business, and would've promptly returned it. It was later in the evening, so he couldn't see what was written on the sign, if anything at all, until he got home.
But on his way home, he was stopped for a minor traffic violation, and the officer saw the sign in the back of his truck, contacted the business owner, who confirmed the sign was currently missing, and took the sign, and charged my father with theft.
In court, my father has been denied the right to an attorney on the grounds that his crime is not punishable by jail-time. I was under the impression that in all criminal cases, you have the right to an attorney, but the judges in this area are bullies. The prosecutor, on the day of the hearing, changed the charges against my father, and my father was not told that in the state of Arizona, you have the right to contest such an action from a prosecutor, so he said nothing as they charged him with a totally different crime.
But it's clear that he didn't take the sing from its storage, but later found it, after someone else had removed it.
In fact, had he not found it there, it probably would've been thrown away the next morning by the dump truck, and the owner would not have recovered it.