My question involves criminal law for the state of: West Virginia
The person I am speaking of was never summoned to appear for interview or trial in three years to this date. Someone was accused of a crime and this person was then tied in and almost charged with conspiracy to commit burglary to someone accused in a homicide investigation. The suspect was with a party of other suspects who were at the one accused of murder's house three days before the death of a mutual friend. Then this person volunteered her own version of what she experienced the day she had visited the house. She had no prior relationship to the suspect. She didn't even know who he was or his relationship to the victim. How can she be a witness in a trial three years after an incident she never witnessed in the first place, and all the details she found out after the fact?
The charges of "intention to burglarize" the suspect were dropped and she has record of the trial procedure. They didn't spell her name right. Her lawyer handed her a paper and told her to sign it. It was a waiver to her right to testify on her own behalf in exchange for discovery. She never received discovery even after she waived her right to speak at a grand jury trial. She was made to believe they did this so as to not show partiality to the witnesses. But she is not sure how that's possible, and feels instead she is being targeted.
She has been harassed for information by the police she believed was a clue to the case, and was a false testimony made by a drunk friend who wasn't even there. She was never made aware whether or not this was thrown out of the case! She has never been summoned to appear until this present date to anything! She has heard everything else word of mouth! Even though her lawyer instructed her not to associate with the victims' relatives or friends. So this whole thing has been nothing but stress and confusion. She was locked up in jail for three days in 2015 for using her headlights at night, and told that she had a warrant out for her arrest for being accused of a felony of attempted burglary just to show that they weren't being biased? It makes no sense, plus being hold on a $25,000 bond which no one could have paid except a wealthy relative or family member.
That's straight up theft of dignity and time. How can she be expected to deal with this it has caused severe emotional distress, they refused her medication for Bipolar in the jail the three days she was incarcerated on a warrant for a crime she is now been told has been dropped. Can she invoke her Miranda rights, or write a statement as to the mistreatment, print it out and hand it to the judge so she can explain that she wanted to speak at the trial and is completely innocent and cannot provide any witness to crime related to defense?

