charges for felony and probation violation
My boyfriend is on probation for beating up his sister's ex-boyfriend a year ago.
Then recently, his sister brought home 3 guys and my boyfriend got mad, lost his temper, as always, and wanted to fight with them. One of the guys wanted to calm my boyfriend down so he brought out a gun and tried to point it at my boyfriend. My boyfriend got scared so he snatched the gun away from the guy and the guy ran away. My boyfriend then shot the gun randomly, not directly to the guy but somewhere close to scare the guy. My boyfriend's into guns and instead of calling the police about the gun, he took the gun for himself. So the police came after the neighbors saw/heard what happened and look in his room and saw the gun.
Basically, all the witnesses are pointing out that it was his gun. And they arrested him, went to jail for 2 hours then was scheduled for a court date.
He went to court and he pissed of his District Attorney and the Judge. And now he's going to another court case because he was being charged with "Violation of Probation" and basically "Felony".. possession of a firearm... something like that... which he shouldn't be because he's under probation.
Now his lawyer wanted him to come up with 30 recommendation letters from different people (church, school, work) to give to the judge so they can at least convince the judge that we were good person.
my question/s: how big are the charges? Will the recommendation letters help him? What are the chances that he will go to jail? And if he will, how long?
in my opinion, in some point, I want him to go to jail. I love him but he's also addicted to marijuana, and he smokes a lot, cigarettes and pot, and he doesn't really work or go to school. Basically he's lazy and the jail time would do him good and probably make him a better person.
I didn't want to write the recommendation letter because I don't want to lie to the judge because it might affect my status. He was good and he's a good person but he's been doing more bad stuff.
please help! Sorry if it was too long and I appreciate it if someone would answer my questions.
THANKS SOOO MUCH! :)