BUSTED!!!!BIG TIME

[jescowhite]

i have always wondered how i would pay for a lawyer...you cant show up with a bag of cash...or can u?

Criminal defense lawyers love bags of cash. The probation department will ask you how you paid for your lawyer and might try and ask how much when they are preparing the PSI report, but the answer "my friends & family love and support me" will suffice. I also found prosecutors love bags of money.

Your pretty much f-u-c--k-e-d if you don't have a lot of money somewhere hidden and you get nailed by the feds.

 

[off_the_rocker]

best of luck brother, thanks for the advice. keep your head up.

 

[boroboro]

RE: paying lawyers: not sure about today, but back when I was a kid a friend's father was a defense lawyer, usually representing guys caught moving lots of product over the US border. He made plenty of cash, of course, but he also received boats, cars, stereos -- all sorts of stuff paid in lieu of cash.

Lots of toys for high school kids to get in trouble with...

 

[Amstel Light]

This is why it's a great idea to have a high limit credit card handy. Credit cards are the best solution to this problem.quote]

VISA EVERYWHERE YOU WANT TO BE!

 

[hydrochris]

hey everyone, still here. gonna try to answer some of the questions I noticed on there since my last post. I am in St. Louis, MO , I have superlawyer Travis Noble and I did pay cash for his services. I have still had no other contact with anybody. I have so much I want to say right now but I have to be careful with this information until I know it is safe to publish. I do know that one of two things will happen:
Forfeiture of funds to DEA
No charges or indictments
Glock returned to me

OR

Forfeiture of funds to DEA
Loss of Glock
5-10 mandatory

the first scenario is the prize of some wrong doing on the governments parts, the second scenario will happen if they push the wrong doing under the rug and move forward.

 

[pugnacious]

Good luck man. Do you have a better idea how you got caught up?

 

[jescowhite]

big ups to you for going with a superlawyer! That website has the best of the best.

As far as #2 is concerned, see if you can sweeten the deal by offering more money, definitely worked in my case and you don't even have to have right now, you can pay down the road no interest.

 

[nepalnt21]

I read through the docs and there were a number of untrue statements that the detectives said that I made. One statement was that I was buying and selling marijuana growing equipment internationally, what kind of shit is that.

this is why you ALWAYS keep your mouth shut when it comes to cops. NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER talk to law enforcement. that is your lawyer's job.

 

[Two12sKnockin]

I completely understand and respect why you chose to allow them to search in an effort to hide a pistol.

let me just tell you I ...know someone... who similarly tried to be halfway truthful about some roaches... which ended up with a pistol seizure.. whoops..

i think you're dreaming with this safety valve thing. I'm pretty sure fed time is 80% of sentence, with good time/work time etc. but with mandatory minimums I mean I've seen a lot but I havent seen it ALL.. but I have never seen anyone get less than mandatory..

i dont know what wrong doing you're hoping for but dont count on it man. do everything you can to influence it in that direction but dont count on it.

i know someone else who, on another occaision, was searched illegally, and had a precedent case from their state to reinforce the illegality of the search, and judge denied motion to suppress because he.... felt like it... i guess?

the judiciary system in this country is an eye opening process for first timers, and you jumped straight into the frying pan.

good luck man, from the bottom of my ice cold heart, good luck.

 

[Pythagllio]

i think you're dreaming with this safety valve thing. I'm pretty sure fed time is 80% of sentence, with good time/work time etc. but with mandatory minimums I mean I've seen a lot but I havent seen it ALL.. but I have never seen anyone get less than mandatory..

Safety valve is relatively new. Anyway, if you finish this post you won't be able to say that you've never seen it before again.

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n612/a08.html?1151

"Lynch's lawyers, federal public defenders Reuven Cohen and John Littrell, tried Thursday to persuade Wu to spare their client prison time altogether. Wu allowed the arguments to go on for nearly an hour before telling the lawyers that he'd heard enough.

"As empathetic as I may be to Mr. Lynch's situation, I have to follow the law," Wu said. "I feel I cannot get around the one year."

In imposing the one-year sentence, Wu said he was using a so-called "safety valve" provision to go below the five-year mandatory minimum term called for under federal sentencing guidelines. The safety valve is intended to ensure that nonviolent offenders with very minor or no previous criminal records and who are not the leaders or organizers of a criminal organization do not receive unduly harsh punishments. "

 

[qbert]

I completely understand and respect why you chose to allow them to search in an effort to hide a pistol.

let me just tell you I ...know someone... who similarly tried to be halfway truthful about some roaches... which ended up with a pistol seizure.. whoops..

i think you're dreaming with this safety valve thing. I'm pretty sure fed time is 80% of sentence, with good time/work time etc. but with mandatory minimums I mean I've seen a lot but I havent seen it ALL.. but I have never seen anyone get less than mandatory..

i dont know what wrong doing you're hoping for but dont count on it man. do everything you can to influence it in that direction but dont count on it.

i know someone else who, on another occaision, was searched illegally, and had a precedent case from their state to reinforce the illegality of the search, and judge denied motion to suppress because he.... felt like it... i guess?

the judiciary system in this country is an eye opening process for first timers, and you jumped straight into the frying pan.

good luck man, from the bottom of my ice cold heart, good luck.

85% of sentence before eligibility for parole for fed time, iirc.

And the bolded part, yeah. Welcome to "justice" in the good ol' us of a-hole.

I'll say it over and over: those folk who think they can wind up on the "right" side of the law in a drug case and get their searches and seizures thrown out, well, most of ya will have a different thing coming if you find yourself in that position. Once you let the cops get your sight on you, you're pretty much screwed. They'll make up whatever they need to get you convicted in most cases and the judges are perfectly happy to let them, and the juries are just so happy to be part of their own little Law & Order that you just don't have a chance.

 

[Two12sKnockin]

fascinating Pythagllio - thanks for sharing. yea qbert, I was idealistic once... reality can be a harsh eye opener...

 

[whiterabbit9]

Good luck man

no one deserves jail time for growing weed

 

[darookie2000]

Criminal defense lawyers love bags of cash. The probation department will ask you how you paid for your lawyer and might try and ask how much when they are preparing the PSI report, but the answer "my friends & family love and support me" will suffice. I also found prosecutors love bags of money.

Your pretty much f-u-c--k-e-d if you don't have a lot of money somewhere hidden and you get nailed by the feds.

Attorney client privilege should apply there too, no?

 

[bluepeace]

I knew a Guy in the PHX area that got caught about a year and a half maybe 2 years ago. Swat team style, basher at the door helicopters the whole nine. 120 plants in flower with 200 clones ready to move to flower at 2 seprate locations he was renting. They took his carsX2 one house and liquidated his bank accounts. 8 mounths later DISMISSED WITH OUT PREJUDICE. Your solid, stay positive.

 

[Strainhunter]

I read through the whole thing and I am sending the OP best wishes!

 

[qbert]

reality can be a harsh eye opener...

I hear that.. I don't know if I've ever been as angry as I got when a judge pulled crap like that on me. Didn't even deny. Refused to rule one way or the other. Appeals upheld, within the judge's "discretion" and state supreme dismissed an entire appeal with a single run-on sentence. Ten years later (6 of those inside on the conviction), still mad about that one.

 

[blinx420]

Hire someone to tie her up and pour shit(preffrebly diarrea) all over her and leave her like that for a couple days then release her if that isn't good payback I don't know what is good luck with your case

 

[hydrochris]

Still here, with nothing new to report.

 

[tommy2js]

good luck been there more than enough don't worry you didn't kill anyone.