Trespassing Charge Meant Spending the Night in Jail
My question involves criminal law for the state of: aiken, south carolina
First of all i am 17. Back in december 2008, approximatly 10 months ago me and a buddy of mine received trespassing warnings at our local sonic restaurant, if you dont know what sonic is, its a drive in food place and the people bring food out to your car. Anyway it was during christmas break and on a weak night. Sonic here is open until 11pm on week nights (sunday-thursday) and 12pm (friday-saturday). Anyway, me and this buddy and couple friends were chillin at sonic and had nothing better to do, just something to get out of the house, it was getting close to 11 and sonic was closing, me and this buddy were sitting there just talking and catching up, next thing i knew the lights were out and all employees were gone, looked at the clock and it was only 11:15. Anyway we were on the way to leave and friends decides he needs to take a pee and goes to where the bathrooms are, the bathrooms are part of the building itself but separted by another dore to get into main facilty where kitchen area is. He goes to open the door and not think anything of it the alarm goes off. He runs back to his car and says lets go before cops come, i say to him "lets just wait and tell them what happened so they wont try and find us because of video cameras" he say f*** that and drives to nearby parking lot to wait on me, i sit at sonic and wait for cops to come with alarm going off, after about 5 minutes the alarm stops going off and there are no cops or sirens to be heard so i wait another minute or so after the alarm had already cut off and still no sign of cops, so i leave, meet with the friend and next thing i know 6 cops are flying by our parking lot to sonic, i tell him lets just go back and tell them what happened so we wont get in any trouble, he disagrees and i proceed to do it anyway. I pulled up and sonic and say theres nothing to worry about it was just a friend of mine trying to use the bathroom and we had been there since they were open and all that good stuff. Well the cop that talked to me was a complete A** hole and decided to make me get out the car, i continue to tell him what happened, he asked where my friend was and i told them he was over in the parking lot so 2 cops left and escorted him back to sonic in his car. In the end cop was still a A** hole and we both got trespassing warnings saying we couldnt go back without mangers permission. So a couple months later we go back and get permission from manger and he says he never told the cop we couldnt come back and didnt agree to any trespassing warnings, so i said ok well will you write a paper to police department stating we are fine to be here and he said he would, so we left not thinking anything of it. Now this past friday night i went to sonic and i was sitting there with the girlfriend just listening to music and chillin, and my luck the same cop roles through and sees me, gets out of his car and says didnt i band you from here and i said yes he had and that we got managers permission to be back, so he goes to window and ask about us and having permission and to my luck the old manager got fired and it was a new lady that took his position, and this old manager we got permission from either forgot about the paper he was to submit or just didnt turn it in. so cop comes back to my car and says "put your hands behind your back blah blah blah" and i was just like "are you serious right now?" anyway long story short he finds my fake Id i made out of my real drivers license and charges me with that, trespassing after notice and minor in pos of tobacco and i go to jail for the night. He had me in cuffs before he found my fake which was in glove box of car. Bail was 890 dollars and a bunch of crap. I dont know what to do about this but im sure he is wrong in some way, if anyone could help me please do so, i got arrested for being the good guy, it was like a loose loose loose situation. is there anything i can do? i have scholarships riding on this and haven't ever done anything so called "wrong" like this besides speeding tickets.
Re: Trespassing Charge Meant Spending the Night in Jail
Have your criminal defense lawyer contact the old manager, who can explain that your ban was lifted and perhaps get your trespassing charge dismissed.
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yea i have, ive never had a criminal lawyer before, i dont know if its worth paying lawyer fees, although i did have a free consulataion yesterday and he told me the best bet might be pti, but he wasnt talking much, he said if i pled guilty to the fake ID then my license will be suspended for 3-6 months regardless and if i go through pti it should be fine and not get suspended, i REALLY need my license so it would be benificial to go through pti?
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dennit469
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Don't post to your own post.
If we had more to say, we would say it.
Even if you are found innocent of the trespassing charge, the other charges will stick.