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I'm sure everyone here will tell him to get an attorney asap but the kid has NO cash and refuses to use a public defender.
Then to be blunt he is a fool for refusing a public defender when he qualifies for one. Public defenders are lawyers and will know the law and procedure far better than he does. Even as overworked as some Illinois public defenders are he is still better off with help from an attorney then trying to handle this matter on his own when he has very little knowledge of the law or how the criminal process works.

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Instead of begging his step dad for a few thousand bucks for an attorney is there any law, precedent, motion, etc that he can present to the judge on his first visit (he's already had it pushed back once) to ask for the charges to be dropped JUST based on the fact that he had communications with the accuser after the alleged crime took place and the accuser clearly does not show "emotional distress" and oh yeah she texts him "F@ck the Police". ???
Just based on that? No. The fact that they might have gotten friendly again months later does not mean that he did not commit the alleged crime. After all, victims of domestic violence often return to their abusers after they have been attacked. But that fact does not undo the crime the attacker committed. People get convicted of domestic violence despite the fact that their victims made up with them for that very reason: making up does not undo what the attacker did. Same principle here. If that’s what he is relying on for his defense, he’s in trouble. He really needs a lawyer.