What is the name of your state? NY
Recently I got into an arguement with someone. Before it could get violent I left. A week later I was arrested by the police with a warrent and charged with Agg Assault. The police explained that the person I argued with claimed a few days after the incident that I ran into him and his friends on the street and produced a knife and threatened them. He pressed charges and his friends claimed to be witnesses. I told the police that on the night in question that I was over a friends house and could prove it as my friends could vouch. The police said that was fine but that I still had to be arrested and that I could explain everything in court but that I'd better have more then just friends vouching as it's a shakey defense due to the fact that I could have people lie for me. I spoke to a lawyer and they confirmed this and asked if I could produce anything solid to prove my where abouts such as documentation, video, even reciepts. I don't, what does this mean? Will I be convicted of something I didn't do just because I can't produce physical evidence? Why is his friends vouching for him enough to arrest me but mine aren't enough to prove my innocense? Really need some good advice.
-Ron
Recently I got into an arguement with someone. Before it could get violent I left. A week later I was arrested by the police with a warrent and charged with Agg Assault. The police explained that the person I argued with claimed a few days after the incident that I ran into him and his friends on the street and produced a knife and threatened them. He pressed charges and his friends claimed to be witnesses. I told the police that on the night in question that I was over a friends house and could prove it as my friends could vouch. The police said that was fine but that I still had to be arrested and that I could explain everything in court but that I'd better have more then just friends vouching as it's a shakey defense due to the fact that I could have people lie for me. I spoke to a lawyer and they confirmed this and asked if I could produce anything solid to prove my where abouts such as documentation, video, even reciepts. I don't, what does this mean? Will I be convicted of something I didn't do just because I can't produce physical evidence? Why is his friends vouching for him enough to arrest me but mine aren't enough to prove my innocense? Really need some good advice.
-Ron