I was recently with a friend and was arrested for petty theft shoplifting. The amount of the items totalled about $360 some dollars. I have no crimal record, and I am very scared about this. It is not in my character to do something like this, but I take responsibility for being there and make a really bad judgement call. I want to do anything I can to keep this off my record. I'm on Ohio......does anyone have a suggestion? I am not sure what to plead, and what I could do to sway the judge to not put it on my record, I am more than willing to do a program or something like that, the city that the incident happened in does not do community service, I already called and asked about that. Please help!!!!!!

