I didn't commit the crime. I was just at the wrong place. I'm not the type to get in trouble. My family and friends don't put nothing against me. Right now I'm trying to get it off my record. I have a lawyer and he will file an appropriate release. My lawyer didn't help me out at all. I didn't know anything about the law. I was in an abusive relationship with guy I was with. I wasn't in a good situation. My lawyer told me to take the plea and my family did to. I felt like that was the right choice because you should listen to your family and lawyer. I also knew I had to get treatment for my disability. I think if I had a better lawyer and knew more about the law things would have been different. Now that I have a probation officer she wants me to tell her when I go out of the county. I haven't been lately and I haven't had no trouble. I have a gps tracker. Why should I tell her? What should I do ?

Hi, panda0803!

You were found guilty and convicted of a crime.

Is that correct?

Thanks!

If it's on your record you either entered a plea or were found guilty.

You have an Attorney - follow his/her instructions. Don't complicate things by going off on some other path.

I think you have a problem because once you are labeled a sex offender it sticks with you - but perhaps your Attorney knows something I don't know.

If a condition of your probation is that you tell your PO where you are, I would do just that unless you want to go to jail for a violation.

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Hi, panda0803!

You were found guilty and convicted of a crime.

Is that correct?

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I wasn't found guilty through a trial. I took the plea bargain. My lawyer didn't do anything for me and I didn't know anything about the law. I requested another lawyer through a letter. I didn't get anything. The court sees I'm guilty but in my family and friends eyes, I'm not. I have a lawyer to try to get it off me.

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If it's on youjr record you either entered a plea or were found guilty.

You have an Attorney - follow his/her instructions. Don't complicate things by going off on some other path.

I think you have a problem because once you are labeled a sex offender it sticks with you - but perhaps your Attorney knows something I don't know.

If a condition of your probation is that you tell your PO where you are, I would do just that unless you want to go to jail for a violation.

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My attorney didn't do anything for me to help my case. I was not found guilty. I don't have a problem. My attorney didn't explain what I could do since I was innocent. I know I have an attorney to get this off me. The reason I asked that question about going out of the county because I was hoping I could reach a lawyer.

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I wasn't found guilty through a trial. I took the plea bargain. My lawyer didn't do anything for me and I didn't know anything about the law. I requested another lawyer through a letter. I didn't get anything. The court sees I'm guilty but in my family and friends eyes, I'm not. I have a lawyer to try to get it off of me.

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Unfortunately the only opinion that matters is that of the Court - your family/friends don't count.

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Unfortunately the only opinion that matters is that of the Court - your family/friends don't count.

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I know that sucks. I'm hoping the lawyer I have is a good lawyer. People these days can be mean and put this on u. I wouildn't do this to a child ever. I wasn't brought up like that. I always stayed to myself and did good in school.

What was the specific charge, panda0803?

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Did your previous attorney not explain the plea deal you were accepting? Did you ask for an explanation before you accepted it?

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What was the specific charge, panda0803?

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I don't want to say. I'm innocent and that is all that matters to me. I was accused of this and has really messed things up for me.

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did your previous attorney not explain the plea deal you were accepting? did you ask for an explanation before you accepted it?

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I asked my lawyer to explain things for me but didn't do a good job. He wouldn't come and talk to me or call me. He was a sorry lawyer.

Panda, obviously you don't have to tell details. But keep in mind this is an anonymous site. We have no idea who you are. People will be able to help you more if they know more about what's going on.

Having pled guilty whether you are innocent or guilty means that this is going to be almost impossible to reverse in court. If you have already been sentenced then it's a done deal and you're going to have to deal with your decision to have pled or not. You pled.

And as far as you having a GPS system you had better inform your PO if you intend on leaving the county or not as you can very easily be violated and sent to jail for the violation. This is nothing to take lightly by the way.

At this point you need to understand that you pled guilty. YOu had to say that you were guilty in open court for your plea to be entered. You obviously did or you would not be on probation now. The alternative would have been to go to trial and be found innocent but you chose to take a plea agreement instead so that you would not have risked going to jail.

Why are you so upset now? You were obviously not sentenced to a prison term but given probation instead. You had your choice and chose to take the no jail and probation route instead.

And as far as your lawyer explaining things to you - he obviously did or you would not have taken the plea agreement.

Just because you are now unhappy with your life doesn't mean that you can magically go back and now have a full blown trial as you are supposedly innocent of the crime. Doesn't happen that way in real life - maybe Hollywood or television - but never in real life.

And as far as you being in the wrong place, etc. I'm sorry, I don't buy that excuse either.

I'm going to jump in here and add my two cents.

While it may not be something that you want to talk about, we do need to know what happened. It's hard to help you when we don't know what we're dealing with. We're not asking for details about what the alleged victim is claiming was done to him/her; we just want to know what you were originally charged with and what the charge was amended to that led you to agree to a plea bargain.

You keep saying that your original attorney didn't do a good job and that you "didn't" know anything about the law; were you appointed a public defender or did you actually hire the original lawyer?

You also stated that you were "in the wrong place" which indicates that a crime was going on and you happened to be present, which makes me wonder if you have been found guilty as party to said crime.

I have worked with sex offenders that if there is a storm, it sometimes knocks out the system that monitors their GPS. They were arrested both times that this happened. They were at home and the police were there within minutes once the system alerted them that their monitors were offline. You should tell your PO because you are a sex offender and you will have to continue to tell her till you get off probation.

If you are on a tracking system, that means you have done a farily serious crime, sorry you plead guilty so you are guilty by the eyes of the court.

And having worked in prison systems, almost all say they "did not do it" so honestly few people believe you if you are convicted or plead guilty.

Your attorney most likely saw the evidence and saw that while you did not feel you were guilty, it was legally guilty. For example if you were aware of illegal sexual things going on in your household and did not do something, you may be charged with that same crime. And be convicted.

So he may have gotten you a lot smaller sentence by having you plead guilty.

And you have to tell them where you are, and where you go, because that is the rule and law, and if you don't you will be in prison to serve your time.

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If you are on a tracking system, that means you have done a farily serious crime, sorry you plead guilty so you are guilty by the eyes of the court.

And having worked in prison systems, almost all say they "did not do it" so honestly few people beleive you if you are convicted or plead guilty.

Your attorney most likely saw the evidence and saw that while you did not feel you were guilty, it was legally guilty. For example if you were aware of illegal sexual things going on in your household and did not do something, you may be charged with that same crime. and be convicted.

So he may have gotten you a lot smaller sentence by having you plead guilty.

And you have to tell them where you are, and where you go, because that is the rule and law, and if you don't you will be in prison to serve your time.

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Listen, I'm honest and I would never commit a crime at all. I wouldn't. People that know me or just met me will say that I don't seem like the person that would do a crime at all. My lawyer should have done investigation on my case. I didn't do nothing. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. My lawyer didn't come to talk to me or call me at all. He didn't do no communication but one letter. I'm innocent and I will hold my innocence. I wasn't raised to be mean to people and disrespect them by committing a crime. I was raised to do what is right. I do what I can for people and I'm a very nice and kind person to people. I don't like to hurt people's feelings or be mean to them. I have been taken advantage of. My ex at the time was very abusive to me and liked to play mind games. I don't do that. I was in a bad situation.

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panda, obviously you don't have to tell details. but keep in mind this is an anonymous site. we have no idea who you are. people will be able to help you more if they know more about what's going on.

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I'm not going too much detail but I do want people to know what I'm talking about.

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Having pled guilty whether or not you are innocent or guilty means that this is going to be almost impossible to reverse in court. If you have already been sentenced then it's a done deal and you're going to have to deal with your decision to have pled or not. You pled.

And as far as you having a GPS system you had better inform your PO if you intend on leaving the county or not as you can very easily be violated and sent to jail for the violation. This is nothing to take lightly by the way.

At this point you need to understand that you pled guilty. YOu had to say that you were guilty in open court for your plea to be entered. You obviously did or you would not be on probation now. The alternative would have been to go to trial and be found innocent but you chose to take a plea agreement instead so that you would not have risked going to jail.

Why are you so upset now? You were obviously not sentenced to a prison term but given probation instead. You had your choice and chose to take the no jail and probation route instead.

And as far as your lawyer explaining things to you - he obviously did or you would not have taken the plea agreement.

Just because you are now unhappy with your life doesn't mean that you can magically go back and now have a full blown trial as you are supposedly innocent of the crime. Doesn't happen that way in real life - maybe Hollywood or television - but never in real life.

And as far as you being in the wrong place, etc. I'm sorry, I don't buy that excuse either.

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In going to trial, I was afraid somehow they would have me to go to prison for something I didn't do. What I mean from being in the wrong place at the wrong time was that. One nothing ever happened, I didn't do nothing and I didn't see nothing happen. It was being put on me and nothing took place at all. I was afraid that if I went to trial, they would say something for me to go to prison. I was scared. When my lawyer sent me the letter, I wanted it explained. I had questions when he sent me that letter. I tried to send him letters of trying to help me. There was a lot of things I didn't understand of the law.

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I'm going to jump in here and add my two cents.

While it may not be something that you want to talk about, we do need to know what happened. It's hard to help you when we don't know what we're dealing with. We're not asking for details about what the alleged victim is claiming was done to him/her; we just want to know what you were originally charged with and what the charge was amended to that led you to agree to a plea bargain.

You keep saying that your original attorney didn't do a good job and that you "didn't" know anything about the law; were you appointed a public defender or did you actually hire the original lawyer?

You also stated that you were "in the wrong place" which indicates that a crime was going on and you happened to be present, which makes me wonder if you have been found guilty as party to said crime.

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Yes, I was in the wrong place. I believe if I didn't meet my ex, none of this wouild happen. Nothing happened. I couldn't afford a lawyer. It was court appointed.

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I have worked with sex offenders that if there is a storm, it sometimes knocks out the system that monitors their GPS. They was arrested both times that this happened. They were at home and the police were there within minutes once the system alerted them that their monitors were offline. You should tell your PO because you are a sex offender and you will have to continue to tell her till you get off probation.

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I understand. Im not going to do anything wrong. I'm a great person. I don't make trouble.

I still have no idea what you are talking about. And I'd bet that no one else will either. That's fine if you don't want to tell people what you were convicted of. But you can't expect anyone to be able to help you when you won't tell them what happened. I can't just say "i hurt myself. what do it do?" and then not tell people what hurts or what happened and still expect a lot of helpful advice. Just like you can't tell us you were convicted of a crime and expect people to tell you what you should do next. It doesn't matter how great of a person you are to those who know you, it matters what the court ruled.

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i still have no idea what you are talking about. and i'd bet that no one else will either. that's fine if you don't want to tell people what you were convicted of. but you can't expect anyone to be able to help you when you won't tell them what happened. i can't just say "i hurt myself. what do it do?" and then not tell people what hurts or what happened and still expect a lot of helpful advice. just like you can't tell us you were convicted of a crime and expect people to tell you what you should do next. it doesn't matter how great of a person you are to those who know you, it matters what the court ruled.

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The children said that I messed with them and I didn't do anything to them. I would never do anything bad to them. They are great kids. My ex had visitation with them and I went with them to the movies, relatives house, shopping, park, chuckie cheese. They called me mom because they liked the way I was nice to them. I treated them like they were my own. I was told the mother of the children was jealouse of me for some reason. I was always nice to her. I didn't make no trouble at all. I don't know why the children would say anything like that to me. I did not see no one by mean to those children at all.

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the children said that I messed with them and I didn't do anything to them. I would never do anything bad to them. They are great kids. My ex had visitation with them and I went with them to the movies, relatives house, shopping, park, chuckie cheese. They called me mom because they liked the way I was nice to them. I treated them like they were my own. I was told the mother of the children was jealouse of me for some reason. I was always nice to her. I didn't make no trouble at all. I don't know why the children would say anything like that to me. I did not see no one by mean to those children at all.

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So who contacted Child Protective Services? Who did the children say this to? Where are the children now?

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So who contacted Child Protective Services? Who did the children say this to? Where are the children now?

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The children said this to a guild counselor at school. The children are at the same place where they were. I don't talk to them. I'm very upset that they could do this to me. Once they told the counselor then the police got involved the child protective services got involved. Not too long after that they took my children away. I haven't done anything and I got this put on me. The only thing good that came out of this was that I got to leave my ex that was abusive to me. I was afraid to go to prison. I said I'm innocent and my lawyer won't talk to me I don't want to go to prison and if I had a different lawyer that would talk to me and let me know what was going on then I wouldn't be in this circumstance right now.I didn't know anything about the law. I was lost and didn't know what to do.

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my attorney didn't do anything for me to help my case. I was not found guilty. I don't have a problem. My attorney didn't explain what I could do since I was innocent. I know I have an attorney to get this off of me. The reason I asked that question about going out of the county because I was hoping I could reach a lawyer.

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If you was found not guilty... then why are you wearing a GPS tracker and dealing with a PO and why are you on probation? This is confusing.

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If you was found not guilty...then why are you wearing a GPS tracker and dealing with a PO and why are you on probation? This is confusing.

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They pleaded guilty which they apparently think is somehow different than being found guilty.

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They pleaded guilty which they apparently think is somehow different than being found guilty.

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Which is exactly what I read into this as well.

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Which is exactly what I read into this as well.

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Pleading guilty and being found guilty really is two different things. There a lot of people that plead guilty and aren't guilty at all. There are different reasons people do it. People also do it just not to go to prison. There was a lot of reasons I did it. People plead guilty because the lawyer was a bad lawyer and didn't go his job right. There are a lot of things why people do it. I could go on and on.

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pleading guilty and being found guilty really is two different things. There a lot of people that plead guilty and aren't guilty at all. There are different reasons why people do it. People also do it just not to go to prison. There was a lot of reasons why I did it. People plead guilty because the lawyer was a bad lawyer and didn't go his job right. There are a lot of things why people do it. I could go on and on.

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The problem is that you choose not to go on and on. You say you didn't do it but took a plea bargain - why? If you knew you were innocent and there was no evidence against you, why would you admit to something that you say you didn't do?

You keep blaming your lawyer, saying he didn't do his job and that you didn't know the law - what have you learned that makes you think you did the wrong thing by admitting guilt? Why didn't you fight it in the first place?

It ended in a conviction... that means in the eyes of the law... you are guilty.

A lot more guilty people take a plea to get a lesser charge than innocent people do.

Semantics matter not. You are a registered sex offender as a result of a guilty plea resulting in a conviction. Which holds just as much weight as if it was a jury verdict, only it let you negotiate the terms of sentencing to something agreeable to the court.

You should have fought it if you were truly innocent. After all, the lawyer doesn't make that decision to accept the plea, you do. They can only recommend it based on the evidence the prosecution has against you.

As an adult we are responsible for our own actions. You can't blame others.

Yeah.. I don't doubt a few innocent people get sent to jail. And few criminals will ever publicly admit to what they really did (the smarter ones anyway) knowing words have a way of coming back to haunt them in the future. Yeah, I knew a few dumb criminals that not only bragged about what they did... they did it in their own car. Not at all surprised when they ended up in Prison either. Yeah... they claimed they were innocent too.

The presumption of innocence applies only PRIOR to a conviction. And a plea deal is a conviction.

I am sorry when you take the plea, you are confessing to the crime that you did it, in fact taking a plea, means that you agree you did it, if you were found guilty, you could say they were wrong and never admit doing it, when you took the plea you agreed that you did it.

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I am sorry when you take the plea, you are confessing to the crime that you did it, in fact taking a plea, means that you agree you did it, if you were found guilty, you could say they were wrong and never admit doing it, when you took the plea you agreed that you did it.

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I can understand but that wasn't ever true that I did do it. I now know what the plea is. I have a lawyer that will turn things around. I told him my lawyer didn't do anything for me he will give me an appropriate release. I hope it works. I guess I should have known more about the law before it happens and wish my family to hire me a better lawyer when it happened. I have to give the lawyer a total of 5000 dollars and hope he will be able to turn things around for me.

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I can understand but that wasn't ever true that I did do it. I now know what the plea is. I have a lawyer that will turn things around. I told him my lawyer didn't do anything for me he will give me an appropriate release. I hope it works. I guess I should have known more about the law before it happens and wish my family to hire me a better lawyer when it happened. I have to give the lawyer a total of 5000 dollars and hope he will be able to turn things around for me.

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Hopefully you will come back and let us know what the second Attorney does for you - he apparently has guaranteed he can turn things around and that is unusual.

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Hopefully you will come back and let us know what the second Attorney does for you - he apparently has guaranteed he can turn things around and that is unusual.

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He said he could do it if you didn't have a good attorney or didn't have some evidence to prove your innocence. I'm saving right now. Give me about eight months to save. I can't save much right now because I'm on disability. I have a rare disease called spinocerebellar degeneration. I have been seeing a neurologist for that. She said if I didn't get treatment for it, I would have gotten worse. The disease affects you arms and legs. That is saying if I went to prison they may not have had the proper treatmnet the I needed and I could have ended up in a wheelchair. I have read that a lot of people have ended up in a wheelcheir.

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He said he could do it if you didn't have a good attorney or didn't have some evidence to prove your innocence. I'm saving right now. Give me about eight months to save. I can't save much right now because I"m on disability. I have a rare disease called spinocerebellar degeneration. I have been seeing a neurologist for that. She said if I didn't get treatment for it, I would have gotten worse. The disease affects you arms and legs. That is saying if I went to prison they may not have had the proper treatmnet the I needed and I could have ended up in a wheelchair. I have read that a lot of people have ended up in a wheelcheir.

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Proving your innocence at this pioint is far more difficult than them having to prove your guilt.

You plead guilty... at this point you have to prove you were innocent, not vice-versa. That is a far more difficult tak. Its not upon them to prove your guilt, that's assumed at this point. You never went to trial... remember.

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What part of this person took a plea to stay out of prison does she not understand?? You took the plea to not go to prison and now have to deal with the GPS home arrest ankle bracelet. You had a public defender. It is not their job to continuously visit you in jail prior to trial as they are literally overwhelmed with other "poor" clients' problems.

I worked for several good criminal attorneys in my time and I don't really think that your new attorney can do much, if anything, to reverse your conviction. I may be wrong, but I really doubt it. And the $5K price sounds a little far fetched as it should be much more $ than that so I really wouldn't hold my breath.

Your disability would have been addressed in prison had you already been diagnosed with this disease beforehand and received treatment for it in jail. Prisons are rather fussy about seeing that inmates get proper treatment as they are tired of being sued.

From what I've read your disease is generally inherited and it's a slow degenerative type disease coming on after years and years. There is no cure but the symptoms can be arrested or slowed down.

J_9 - I'm afraid I'd wear out Mr. Bunny Rabbit and give him a doozie of a headache on this one!!

So... were you actually in federal custody on the other side of the country the entire time frame of the crime you committed? Because that's about the only way I can think of that is air tight. Assuming you can even get the case heard in the first place.

You are aware in some localities... they can revoke your house arrest and put you in a cell if they believe you aren't repentant as a convicted child molester. Under the pretext for the public good. Particularly since the recidivism among child molesters is so high.

Raising a stink might bring you all the wrong attention... or the right attention depending on which side of this you are on.

That plea deal had some very specific conditions I will bet... being in violation of any of them might get you a cell with some other people who don't think too highly of crimes against children. Or considered a repeat offender where you better get used to being the whipping post in the prison... or spending your days and nights in solitary confinement to avoid it. Because you won't get probation a second time.

Ok, you're disabled and have to wear an ankle monitor and have to tell the PO every time you leave the county. You seem somehow miffed that you must inform the PO of your whereabouts. You make that seem to be the worst possible thing in the world to happen to you. The worst thing for you would have been to go to prison for being in the wrong place, etc. You chose otherwise.

Also you want to get the sex offender status magically reversed or erased. The 5 grand that attorney quoted you to get this reversed or as you put it "give me an appropriate release" as I previously said seems a tad bit low. Also, there is no criminal attorney that I know of that would guarantee anything period. They are not permitted to guarantee anything like they are appliance salespeople or something. How can an attorney get you an appropriate release? Release from what? Only a Judge can order that.

You are having a very hard time coming to grips with the fact you are on probation, have to wear an ankle monitor and report to a Probation Officer.

You had representation in Court. You had an attorney work your case for you. You have no idea how much or how little work your attorney did on your behalf. You have no idea just how many conversations he had with the prosecution about your case or what he found out that would make him suggest that you take a plea instead of stand trial.

The "new" attorney is going to have to go and talk with your "old" attorney and find out what you are not filling him in on. Don't you realize this? He can't properly formulate anything unless he does speak at length with your old attorney about your case.

If you are so disabled now, why are you so obsessed with not being labeled a sex offender anyway as you won't be able to go to a normal job once your disability really sets in and you'll be at home 24/7?