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hollyster81 · Feb 14, 2012, 10:07 AM

My sister is 23 years old now, but 2 years ago she was charged with a D felony for receiving stolen property. Her lawyer told her to plea guilty and they would lower the charge. She did not realizing what she was doing and trusting the lawyer. The thing is she admits to the action literally but that was not her intent. She was taking some friends to a pawn shop same age as her. They were going to pawn a necklace they had for gas and food. But she drove 40 minutes away from home believing she was going to get gas money from this trip. She gets there and the people she was with didn't have ID so she innocently signed her name to the document. Now she knows how ignorant this was now, but at the time she was young and stuck in a strange town with no cash and barely any gas.Bind! Well, what she didn't know was that the people had stolen that necklace from grandma. Now even though the other girls name was on that paper as well. My sister is taking the fall for this crime. When her only flaw was trusting someone she thought was a friend. Any advise?

Fr_Chuck · Feb 14, 2012, 10:27 AM

If she plead guilty and was sentenced ( court is over) there is nothing she can do.

If she was changed but they have never ended the case and she has not been sentenced she can withdraw her plea and go to trial.
*** she does not want to, if they offered her any type of deal at all. No one is going to believe the story most likely and it really does not matter, she was selling stolen property,
She will get sentenced to most likely much worst if she went to trial.

Fr_Chuck · Feb 14, 2012, 10:27 AM

If she plead guilty and was sentenced ( court is over) there is nothing she can do.

If she was changed but they have never ended the case and she has not been sentenced she can withdraw her plea and go to trial.
*** she does not want to, if they offered her any type of deal at all. No one is going to believe the story most likely and it really does not matter, she was selling stolen property,
She will get sentenced to most likely much worst if she went to trial.

It is also obvious her "friends" did not stick with her, they did not come forward and confess and tell the court she had nothing to do with this. And she did offer to testify against the other people for a better deal it appears.