My question involves criminal law for the state of: ca
Last May of 07 a couple of friends and I left a bar at closing time. We had gotten into a argument with a couple other people then a fight began to happen. The cops were near by and broke up the fight within minutes, my friend got arrested for being drunk in public and let the rest of us go. My two friends and myself jumped into my truck and left the scene and started are way home. As we were leaving the guys we had a argument with were walking in the street, things were said back and forth so we all jumped out of the truck and started fighting again. As I was fighting one on one with the guy next thing I know is my friend I was with ran up behind me and hit the guy I was fighting with a tool out of the back of my truck. At the time when he hit him I honesltly had know idea he had a weapon in the first place, He told me "lets go!!!!" So I ran back to the truck and we all took off.
As we left the scene he had told me that he just hit two guys with a metal object in my truck, and these two people were knocked out cold. 6 months later after this incident happend I find out i have a warrant with Assault With a Deadly Weapon, Bodily Injury, Mayhem, And conspiring to use a Deadly Weapon Felony Charges. I posted bail of 100,000 and hired a private attorney. In the police report it says I wasnt the one who hit anyone with a weapon, it says i was just the driver of the vehicle and I was fighting. I guess Im the only guys they got because nothing happend to my friends that were there. I just had the Preliminary hearing a couple weeks ago to try and get this dismissed by the judge. The judge ended up keeping the charges because theres enough probable cause that I conspired to do these crimes. So its getting sent to a different court for trial. My lawyer wants me to turn the guy in that did these crimes and make a deal with the D.A. He says Ill be looking at a mistemenor or maybe 2 hopefully.
The problem I have is that he wants another 5 grand, and honeslty Im broke from posting bail and paying him 4 grand before. My question is do I hafto tearn my friend in?? Is this a case worth taking to trial? And if I cant afford to pay my lawyer would the Public Defenders Office beable to fight my case as well as my lawyer could? Thanks

