My niece is going to court for DWI and doe snot have a attorney is she going to jail ?
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 at
6:58 pm
rainingonme asked:
She has 4 other charges. SPEEDING, OPEN CONT AFTR CONS ALC SUBOFN, RECKLESS DRIVING- WILLFL/WANTON DISREGARD, CARRYING A CONCEALED WEAPON- OTHER. She was at my house earlier and I told her the small bat was illegal to carry in her car. But this is her 2nd time in 17 months of being charged with a dwi. I know she is wrong and I do not find fault in any officer or court by finding her guilty, but she has two children and needs to get help for her addictions. this is not the person she started out as she was a loving ,helping ,giving young adult whom was uneducated because of ADD and her mother was not wanting it known she had a problem aso she did not get andy help. I know she has to face her crimes she has commited, but is there any way I can get her counceling to go with the punishment. It does no good to put some one in jail and not rehabilitate them. No one is going to court with her. I told her last night I’m terrified, but I would go with her. I do not know what to expect
My sister is not all there she is in hidding and has a husband whom is my nieces father that is dying from a a series of diseases he contracted from his work place. I have talked and tried to get her to see this and she shuts down. She has helped but not in the correct way and now my brother n law is getting worse. the children will be with my sister whi does not wnat them and is only commitin to the children because of what people think ( her words not mine). I’m on a fixed income and I’m willing to take the children and love them, and show them a decent way of life. I do not believe people should run from their problems. I do not care what others think because you can not control others thinking process. The only one you can contol is yourself. I’m concern about the children and my niece and I know they through people in jail all the time and it hurts them and instead of helping them. I want to help her and I want to help her children they are innocent they did not ask for this.
She has 4 other charges. SPEEDING, OPEN CONT AFTR CONS ALC SUBOFN, RECKLESS DRIVING- WILLFL/WANTON DISREGARD, CARRYING A CONCEALED WEAPON- OTHER. She was at my house earlier and I told her the small bat was illegal to carry in her car. But this is her 2nd time in 17 months of being charged with a dwi. I know she is wrong and I do not find fault in any officer or court by finding her guilty, but she has two children and needs to get help for her addictions. this is not the person she started out as she was a loving ,helping ,giving young adult whom was uneducated because of ADD and her mother was not wanting it known she had a problem aso she did not get andy help. I know she has to face her crimes she has commited, but is there any way I can get her counceling to go with the punishment. It does no good to put some one in jail and not rehabilitate them. No one is going to court with her. I told her last night I’m terrified, but I would go with her. I do not know what to expect
My sister is not all there she is in hidding and has a husband whom is my nieces father that is dying from a a series of diseases he contracted from his work place. I have talked and tried to get her to see this and she shuts down. She has helped but not in the correct way and now my brother n law is getting worse. the children will be with my sister whi does not wnat them and is only commitin to the children because of what people think ( her words not mine). I’m on a fixed income and I’m willing to take the children and love them, and show them a decent way of life. I do not believe people should run from their problems. I do not care what others think because you can not control others thinking process. The only one you can contol is yourself. I’m concern about the children and my niece and I know they through people in jail all the time and it hurts them and instead of helping them. I want to help her and I want to help her children they are innocent they did not ask for this.
well, she probably is going to jail. and don’t make excuses for her like ADD and her mom not knowing or caring, she’s an adult with children of her own, she needs to grow up, maybe this will help her. i’m not trying to sound mean, but she needs to get a grip or her kids will be in the same boat. pray for her, support her, but dont excuse her behaviour
maybe you should take the kids, then. you’re right , its not their fault.. i hope your neice gets the help she needs but youre right again, she probably wont find that help in jail….ive been down that lonely road and you cant help someone who doesnt want it. i **** to say that but if your neice really wanted help its out there, i wish you luck, hun
well i would say that there is a likely possibility she could go to jail, but it also depends on what court hearing she is going for theres a docket sounding an arraingment, lots of aspects to all that…. I hope though she at least has obtained a public defender, which the court system should have provided her with at the beginning of her legal troubles. And yes you could try to get her counseling and maybe some other type of rehablilitative therapy to help her with her addictions, but the sad thing about all of that is depending on where you live some jails have medical wards that would be sufficient enough to have her put in to undergo rehabilitative therapys and various trypes of counseling. there are im sure many other variables to this story to but I do wish you the best of luck, and I wish your neice the best of luck as well because I do know she is going to need it
Why haven’t her parents stepped up to the plate on this one? Go, ask to adress the court. leave out the personal stuff and just concentrate on the addiction treatment as PART of her sentence.
Public defender.
Find out if there is a Therapeutic Drug Court in your court system. These courts allow people to get rehab, work, and get clean and sober. If they complete the program (it isn’t easy) their charges are expunged.
My son is a director for the National Association of Therapeutic Drug Courts and is active in trying to get these courts established in all major cities. Call the court clerk’s office and find out if she would have access to this. It saves lives, keeps people out of jail and their children out of foster homes and is so much less expensive than simply housing these people who need help – not jail – turn their lives around. They have to WANT to be clean and sober for this to work.
I hope she can be saved for her, her family and for her children.
She could do the hollywood starlett thing and say she has an alcohol problem. She could say she needs to go to rehab, and get help for her addiction issues. She would have to plead out deferred, and beg the courts mercy. She should have gotten a court appointed attorney. She may be able to request the court appoint her one and have the date delayed a bit to see what her options are. She would seriously have to work on her problems though and would probably end up with probation and mandatory counseling. She needs to see a doctor about her ADD issues as well. If she is really diagnosed with ADD she needs verification of it to give the court… that may help her case. Alcohol effects people with ADD differently than people without it… aggression can be a problem. I **** to tell you this, but she may just well end up in jail for a bit. She NEEDS to be calm and not cry, and not get loud when things don’t go her way…