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JUANITAHUNT
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My son was convicted of unlawful transaction with a minor.(He was smoking pot with his girlfriend and they taped it. That was the evidence.) They told him they would forget it if he bought some drugs so they could arrest someone else. He refused. Anyway, he was stopped on a traffic violation, pulling out of an alley too slow. He was drinking, but wasn't drunk. They searched the car and found his dad's gun. The gun was stolen. His dad had bought the gun from a deputy sherrif the year before. They arrested him. They had charged him with receiving stolen property and felon in possession of a gun. They dropped the first charge. They wanted him to plead guilty and take a year. He refused. He goes to court Feb. 29. His court appointed lawyer wanted him to take the deal. He said they would try to charge him with being a persistant felon. He only has the one felony conviction. His probation also got revoked. He's been in jail 4 months. They gave him 3 and one half years. He's just come up for shock probation but feels he won't get it because he has this other hanging over his head. He doesn't feel his lawyer is helping him any. He hasn't asked him his side of the story. He hasn't talked to anybody else. How can he defend him in court when he doesn't know anything about the case? What are his chances? Should he have taken the deal?