My question involves criminal law for the state of: Georgia
I was at a college football game and upon entering the stadium a cop stops me and states, "I remember you!" He continued to talk about an incident that happened about 7 years ago when I was a freshmen in College. I ignored the statement and we took our seats.
I was with a group of friends. We were in the student section of the stadium where it is common practice to stand up on the bleachers for the entire game. While standing on the bleaches my friends thought it would be funny to keep pulling on my shirt and making me step off the bleacher backwards.
The same cop comes up to me and says, "Easy way or hard way." After explaining himself I said I thought it was gay he was kicking me out but I will leave.
About 5 feet from the gate I turned around and extended my arm to shake his hand. I stated, "I apologize, I know you were just doing your job." He pushes me and said leave. I repeated myself one more time but before I could finish he arrested me for Public Intoxication.
Upon reading the Incident Report it stated that I was yelling obscenities. My question for you guys is, How can they prove I was yelling anything (since there were 15,000 other students around me yelling as well) unless that cop targeted me from the beginning because he recognized me. If so is it legal for a cop to zero in on one person?
I was about 5 rows down from where the cop was standing so he must have been paying close attention. He waited till the exact moment my Fiance left to go to the bathroom to come down and confront me.
I don't want to pay for a lawyer simply because I am getting married and don't want to spend the money.
I found a lot of pictures of this cop on Facebook drinking and quotes from him bragging publicly that he arrested someone and it was a great night. He also drops the f bomb a lot on his public site.
Can I use that information plus my two eye witness statements from the people standing right next to me to prove that there is reasonable doubt that I did what this cop said I did?
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks-

