My wife and I went to a mall with a recent acquitance of ours. She went into the JCPenny store my wife and I were seated outside the store on a bench. At one point she waved a shirt to us from inside the store. After about 20mins she came out and started saying something about the shirt. In less then a minute JCPenny LP officers came hand cuffed her and took her in the store. She apparently was wearing jewelry worth 500$ which is considered grand theft. She is a recent immigrant from India.
Her attorney wants to prove that her intention was not to steal and that she came out side to talk to us. He wants us to give him a signed statement which reads something like this..
she is a recent immigrant.. she waved us a shirt from inside... we did not understand what she wants ... she came out... LP detained her and took her away...
My questions is
1)Would signing such a statement or merely stating the facts in court get me or my wife in any kind of trouble such as being accused by JCPenny as co-conspirators etc.
My objective is to stay out of the whole thing as far as possible. I am really pissed when I consider the fact that me and wife could have been in the store and could been arrested with her for her stupid/greedy actions.
Thanks

