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    Unhappy Charged With Something I Didn't Do

    My question involves criminal law for the state of: Michigan
    For : False Incarceration/Police Brutality

    I Hope theirs a lawyer or something on here willing to help me......I am looking at 2-5years in prison for something i didnt do....lets go back-let me take my anxiety meds before we go on this story still shakes me up-Last valentines day i was out for a FEW bud lights 6 in 6 hours to be exact including 2 shots so by all means i wasnt drunk....a friend calls another friend hat i havent seen in years and wants to hang out hes only a few blocks down and i have a designated driver to pick him up it was roughly 4am...so we go down a side street where there is no street lights,not a busy road,and surely no residential (no witnesses i presume) well i never got my wedding ring sized so it fell off and i went lookin for it next thing you know flahing lights....well im not worried at this point..im not doin anything wrong...the officers approach the car and tells everyone hands up opens the backseat drivers door(where i was sitting but on the passenger side) and tells me "GET OUT!" only words i say to the officer is "yes sir" and start nudging my way over to the door...I am then violently stripped from the car beggining with a knee to the mouth and thrown on the gorund to where they can kick or bludgeon me i was covering my head so i wasnt trying to see what they were doing...immediately they call for backup who arrives about 5 seconds later... these 2 "officers" run up(i am cuffed now) and stick a tazer in my throat and in my spine while the other two savages stomp on my right side of my face,ribs,leg,and arm...(the left side of my body was facing the vehicle) and i tucked my face toward the car as it was the only protection i had with my hands being cuffed...well the beating continues for a good 2 minitues as my two witnesses still in the car recall...after the beating im face first in a pool of blood with a fractured nose so i lift my head for a gasp of air only to be kicked in the back of the head and receive a rug/concrete burn across the side of my face..the officers drag me to the other side of the street by my cuffs and lay me down and just steps on me.I told him i had gallbladder problems so he decided to step and put as much pressure as possible on my gallbladder and ask "how does it feel now" The whole car ride their i keep askin "whyd yall beat me up?whyd yall beat me up?I was just lookin for my wedding ring!" they told me to "shut the **** up" so i did...appon hitting the station they rip my ear ring from my head strip me of my wallet and cigs and FINALLY find out a positive ID on me....i have a bench warrant for violation of probation =/ im then thrown in a cell and stripped of my socks and shirt also and am givin no blanket or food or toilet paper.....all the other inmates received these....days go by i keep aski what im in their for and hey wont tell me except "youll find out when you get to court" i can hardly move my right leg my ribs are battered as is my arm...their are now scars from the tazers on my throat and spine and a huge scar on my right cheek my right side of my face is swollen..they had also made contact with my temple right where my ear and jaw line up so i can not chew for days...when i finally reach court i find I AM BEING CHARGED WITH FELONY ASSAULT ON 2 POLICE OFFICERS! my jaw dropped knowing i had done nothing wrong....well this case has been adjourned by my lawyer twice but my doomsday date is in 20 days....i have two witnesses which i was told i COULD NOT bring into the court...they gave me a plea bargain admit to one assault and well give you a 6 month misdemeanor or plea not gulty and serve a 2-5 year felony charge for both of them....im thinking that their just using that not guilty plea because they have no case but the not guilty plea is like rollin dice...but, at the same time admitting to something i didnt do seems so wrong in itself i already have a bad record as is i dont need this on their too...this whole case has cause physical damage (scars especially on my face) mental damage (i know have to see a psychiatrist for BAD anxiety problems) loss of wages , defamation of character , and worst off time away from my family....if i go to jail my family dosent have any income i support them all....in my city their have been 3 tazerd to death incidents in the past 6 months and quite a few beating and shooting to death without probable cause by are law enforcement i dont know who to go to....if you cant trust your local pd who do you go to? my lawyer seems crooked he offers no advice,everytime he talks to the prosecutor it just gets worse,and he dodges my phone calls!please please please......i am begging for any help at all ive fallen on the worst time of my life and have nowhere to go....

    _sorry its so long but it ALL needs to be heard to avoid any questions/resolutions that i have already thought up or brought up

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    Default Re: Charged With Something I Didn't Do

    If I understand your story... The police pulled the vehicle over and instructed you to put your hands up and open the car door. Instead you stayed stooped down looking for your ring, creating a bona fide concern that you might be about to come out with a weapon. The police reacted accordingly. They claim you assaulted them and resisted arrest; you claim you did not and they assaulted you.

    You need to be working with a criminal defense lawyer, and investigating whether any of the patrol vehicles had video and, if so, whether any of this was caught on tape. It's also possible that some of it was recorded in audio form. But you've waited a long time to get started with trying to preserve recordings, so get on it.

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    actually the first thing i asked of my lawyer was for the tapes from the cars....witch coincidentally neither of the cars had....also youve got the story wrong as soon as the police car turned its lights on i sat up hands visible...im unable to afford another lawyer i could barely cough up the 1grand for the one i have....I did everything i was instructed to do and was beaten into oblivion...I am beginning to wonder how they can charge me with this when its just me and my two people against the 4 police officers word (no physical evidence?)...or at least the original two that pulled us over....for all the other squad car could have known They may have actually thought i had resisted...but even if what they did to me was wrong saying i was already "detained"(face down on the ground cuffed) while they beat me...and they quick arrival makes it seem like a setup

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    Honestly, this entire story seems a little fabricated. Police usually dont beat up people for fun, but there are some rare cases. If you didnt follow their instructions and acted crazy in any way, they did what they felt was necessary. But the entire, they told me I cant bring the two witnesses to court, that is a load of crap. They cant just say no to a witness. Not in any state. Now, as far as while you were in jail. Sounds like you were in a holding cell? Most jails wont give you blankets and all the fun stuff while in a holding cell. The no food thing, it isnt a bakery where you get some just for showing up. You should know this bc you obviously have been arrested before. If you went through meal times and they didnt feed you, make a complaint bc everything in a jail is recorded and they can review the tapes to see if this was true. Something tells me you had more alcohol than you describe and dont really know what happened. Everyone always wants to justify them as a good guy. Not usually the case. Sorry I am sounding like a jerk, but the entire story seems off big time. And 1K for a criminal defense attorney on theses types of charges. Is this person a real lawyer? It is hard enough to get a lawyer for 1K on a DUI let alone assault on PO.

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    The police force in my city is KNOWN for beating on people for fun.I didnt act crazy...why would I knowing id done nothing wrong?They said I couldnt bring my witnesses into civil court(if i pleaded guilty) but in felony court(if i pleaded not guilty)I could.I dont do drugs if thats what your getting at the only Narcotic I ever take is Xanax and I was prescribed this AFTER the incident.The other inmates got to keep their socks,shirt and received a blanket and all of these necessities.Saying it was a holiday weekend and we wouldnt be going to court until the following Tuesday to where we would be shipped to county.The 1000 dollars i payed for this lawyer is a friend of a friend.....this guy grew up with my buddy Dave.But he dosent seem like much of a lawyer...Yet Dave swore up and down he was the best.This is what makes this case hurt all the more because the only people that ACTUALLY seem to believe me and my 2 witnesses are the people that were actually there and my ma who knows id never lie to her.....I came here for help not to hear more accusations about how i must of did this or that...I was a victim of police brutality and theirs nothing more to it now my only question to the people here is if i plea not guilty how am i supposed to prove i didnt assault these officers.....i was thinking maybe a polygraph? or a dental mold?(they said i bit one of them) I really cant think of much else but i highly doubt the courts gona cough up the money for either of those...

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    Default Re: Charged With Something I Didn't Do

    Ahh- they are telling you that you cannot bring witnesses to court if you plead guilty. Of course you can't- there is no trial- you are pleading guilty. Duh.

    What did or did not happen to you in the jail is inconsequential- it will not be brought up in the trial, as it has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not you broke the law. The fact that you weren't fed to your liking, or that you did not get a blanket, or got to keep your socks does not matter. Do not concern yourself with irrelevancies.

    how am i supposed to prove i didnt assault these officers.....i was thinking maybe a polygraph? or a dental mold?(they said i bit one of them) I really cant think of much else but i highly doubt the courts gona cough up the money for either of those...
    The court doesn't pay for your defense, you do. Polygraph isn't admissible. Dental mold only works if they have an impression of the bite on the cop's arm. Even then, I am not sure that will work for you. Many variables.

    Your attorney will put your witnesses on the stand, and will attack the credibility of the police officers' testimony. The jury will then decide. I can tell you that you better have a REALLY good lawyer, and you better hope that the cops don't show, or that your witnesses are the Pope and the President, because juries tend to believe the cops more than other witnesses.

    There are 4 cops that are going to testify against you, and you have two witnesses who were drinking with you. Not good odds, there.

    My first thought when I read your story is that there is more here than you are letting on. Regardless of what you think, cops just do not ride around and beat people up for kicks. Whether you agree with my opinion or not, remember that the jury you will get most likely feels the same way. Argue here all you want, it is them you must convince, not me. Perhaps you should be speaking with your attorney.

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    DeJaVu, are you sure you werent in Webster County Missouri?? My brother was beat up by a deputy and even during the preliminary trial the detective who rolled up on the incident stated "he had to diffuse the situation because the deputy was knealing on my brothers back while handcuffed, while face down in a ditch AND had been peppered sprayed with 2 cans". Hmmm, so testimony was against their own but wouldnt you know it, the deputies in that county are just good ol' boys with no law enforcement education making $13/hr and most had previous records. What a place.... Things did change, my brother was transferred to a federal prison since he was tired of using a coffee can to go to the bathroom in.... Oh it gets better. It was discovered that the good ol judge in the case was the family friend of his ex-wifes best friend. So trust me, you are not the only one who feels deprived of their rights.... Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?

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