johnny1969
Junior Member
About two months ago in PA, I was stopped and arrested. I was on probation and was held in county jail for 9 days on a Probation violation. I had my violation hearing and plead guilty to a dirty urine. At that time I had not been presented with new charges. In December I was charged with the new charges, I was sent a letter telling me my preliminary hearing was last week. I had it continued as I do not have a lawyer yet. My question is , how can they already schedule the preliminary hearing when I have not even had an arraignment for the new charges. I know that the new charges were not a part of the violation hearing as the new charges were not filed until December and the violation hearing was in November. So can they just skip the arraignment? Is that even right? How can they just go to the preliminary hearing without even being arraigned on the new charges? Is there something that can be done since this seems like the process seems like they missed the arraignment? Is that enough to get the new charges tossed?
Thanks in advance,
John
"No entity should profit from a person being incarcerated"
Thanks in advance,
John
"No entity should profit from a person being incarcerated"
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