Theft under $5000. 2nd time. But 1st time since 18th
Hey all,
So basically the story goes like this:
In April of 2006, I was arrested for theft under $5000 for car prowling in a neighborhood and some alleyways. I was 17 at the time. We got caught with $1500 worth of golf clubs in the back of my dads car. Needless to say, my dad was pissed. Luckily though, he hired a good lawyer, and I pretty much just had to do 20 hours of community service and write a letter of appolgy to my parents. Also my criminal record was destroyed, this happened about nov 2006. So at this point, boom, I'm clean.
STUPID ME, its feb 2007, I am now 18 and I do the same thing again. Car prowling, arrested for theft under $5000 again. The way we got arrested was that the cops actually caught us red-handed in a car looking through it. In the end they charged me with steeling car tires with rims which we put in a park nearby so we could get them in the morning.. some cheque book and that's about all that was stolen. I also got a $115 ticket for car prowling... yea I'm not happy about it, I feel like a total scum of the earth. I know this. I can't really explain why I did it... I guess the only reason I can come up with is that me and my friend were drinking heavily that night and.. well I guess I kind of have been a lot lately because my parents have been fighting a lot and its kind of hard to stay home sometimes.
Anyway, this time things are different... my dad mentioned to me after the first time that if I do something stupid again, "im f'n out". Out of the house he means... so I pretty much can't really tell him or my mom about it because I really have no where to go if I get kicked out.. and they will do it my parents are kind of crazy but anyway... I tottally don't know what to do... I cannot afford a lawyer, I only make like $1200 a month.. and I already know that my previous lawyer was like $2000+ so I'm screwed for that... I think my only option at this point is to get free legal advice.
I recently talked to Calgary Legal Guidance (on 02/20/07), which is a not-for-profit org. and the volunteer lawyer there told me that they will give me a call in about a week.. so right now I am waiting for that phone call.
I explained everything to him when I went to see and he pretty much told me I have very little of a defence, since they did catch us in the act and he said that what most likely is going to happen is that I will either be fined or do community service (which kind of sounds weird to me since I already did it and I don't see why a judge would make me do it again... ). He also said that jail time "probably wont happen". This is where it kind of sunk in for me.. I really REALLY don't want to go to jail, I don't care if its for 30 days I really cannot have that happen to me. Not only will that cause a lot of heartache for me and my family, but it will probably shatter me for the rest of my life.
I really don't care about any fine or community service ill pay off $10,000 if I have to.. ill work 1000 hours community service if I have to, I just don't want to go to jail and I don't want my parents to find out...
There's really a lot more to the situation but I know this is getting kind of long so I'm going to leave it at that. I hope someon can help me out there!
Thanks to all//
Ps. I live in alberta, canada
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