What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Virginia
My brother in law was caught with marijuana about 7 years ago and was charged with possession with intent to distribute, first and last time ever charged. He was sentenced to suspended jail time and house arrest for 1 year. His 3 daughters, ages 9, 7, and 5, made him rethink the way he was living his life and left all the crap behind him. He now works a full time job and helps to provide and is a great father considering his brief past with drugs and run in with the law. Tonight my mother, his mother-in-law, said a man was standing in the front of her apartment and heard him trying to open her front door to her apartment. He and my sister live the closest to her apartment so they drove over there. They have a gun in the house for family protection, considering they live in a middle class neighborhood and they have had a problem in the past with troublesome kids she wanted a gun in the house. He takes the gun with him to my mothers apartment complex and someone in the complex called the police. By the time he arrived the guy was gone and my mother and brother in law were standing in the front for a few more minutes and the police pulled up, they got out of the car and walked straight up to him assuming he was the guy trying to break in and proceeded to handcuff him. My mother tried to tell the police who he was and they continued their pat down and of course found the gun. My 3 nieces are at my home now crying, wanting to know about what is going to happen to their dad. My sister is trying to find out and figure out whatever she can. He is a good dad, brother, son, and friend, what can we expect with a decent lawyer?
My brother in law was caught with marijuana about 7 years ago and was charged with possession with intent to distribute, first and last time ever charged. He was sentenced to suspended jail time and house arrest for 1 year. His 3 daughters, ages 9, 7, and 5, made him rethink the way he was living his life and left all the crap behind him. He now works a full time job and helps to provide and is a great father considering his brief past with drugs and run in with the law. Tonight my mother, his mother-in-law, said a man was standing in the front of her apartment and heard him trying to open her front door to her apartment. He and my sister live the closest to her apartment so they drove over there. They have a gun in the house for family protection, considering they live in a middle class neighborhood and they have had a problem in the past with troublesome kids she wanted a gun in the house. He takes the gun with him to my mothers apartment complex and someone in the complex called the police. By the time he arrived the guy was gone and my mother and brother in law were standing in the front for a few more minutes and the police pulled up, they got out of the car and walked straight up to him assuming he was the guy trying to break in and proceeded to handcuff him. My mother tried to tell the police who he was and they continued their pat down and of course found the gun. My 3 nieces are at my home now crying, wanting to know about what is going to happen to their dad. My sister is trying to find out and figure out whatever she can. He is a good dad, brother, son, and friend, what can we expect with a decent lawyer?