Was charged with possession.... Have some questions

[sttomassmoker]

they are gonna probably offer you two things

a fine

or some sort of probation type deal where at the end if all goes well it will get expunged from your record

[meloncoly]

such fucked up laws.

[jahjahjahjah]

Well i'll tell you how you first fucked up, you played into the Police's gotcha games, You should have known better not to violate your 5th ammendment right, eg, ( incriminate Yourself by admiting you had Marijuana) and you let the police search your CAR !!!!!! All you had to do was refuse the search and he could have done nothing about it, It's your duty as a US citizen to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!!!!!!!!!! and not let anybody including the Police pressure you in to giving up your rights as a citizen.
And the up most important thing he lied to you and you believed it, There is no such exsisting law in all of the state of Washington,

(DISENT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTISM)

[Gatekeeper777]

plain smell law?????
lol

i would of said" Officer you scared me by pulling up behimd me and i shit my pants, next time i will try for roses."

[locomark]

Well IncredibleOne,

I just got off a year of probation for possession and I'm smoking large now. I talked to a lawyer who wanted $1500 and who said I would get one year of probation. I went with a Public Defender and got a year of probation with no stain on my record. You get the picture?

Loco

[BOYZNUS]

no but there is a way u can clear it of your record ijust dont no how but have heard of it being done

IT'S CALLED AN EXPUNGMENT. IF YOU KEEP YOUR NOSE FOR 3 YEARS, THE SENTENCING JUDGE AND THE DA CAN SEAL THAT CHARGE FROM YOUR RECORD.
THE ONLY ONES THAT COULD EVER SEE IT LATER IN LIFE IS LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE MILITARY.

YOU CAN DO IT YOUR SELF. GOOGLE IT.

[Dutch Masta]

If you get good grades, bring your report card with you to court. A judge will be more sympathetic if you prove you are not a delinquent.

[bluedevilar4]

living in washington state and having had a few freinds run into this same predicament i can tell u what i kno happend to them. in washington small amounts like udner certain grams = personal and thats been decriminalized, which is why you didnt get arrested and just got a ticket, if your record is clean and you have good attendacnce in school good grades etc. you should be fine, a couple of my freinds who had the exact same felonies, (arrested at same time same hting) both had competley differnt out comes based on GPA attendace record they look at every thing and make a decision and its all comes down to what judge you got and every thing as well but washington is beter than most states. Try and see if you can get it deffered if its not past ur court date, my freind got a MIP and he got that deffered and when the cop pulled him over he didnt evne have that on his record, cop was like im not gonna give u speeding ticket because you have a squeaky clean record,


good luck!

[IncredibleOne]

So I just thought I'd bump this thread to give anyone who cared an update on what happened. Basically... About the beginning of February I went to court for the arraignment. Prosecutor offered me a fine of $525 on both the possession and possession of paraphernalia charge and a 1 day jail sentence for both. I declined and applied for a court appointed lawyer. I was fortunate to get a lawyer who was both intelligent and a pretty cool dude. He had a few years of experience under his belt so he knew what he was doin' and was pretty enthusiastic about helping me out. After several court resets and bargains with the prosecutor they finally settled on dropping one of the charges completely and giving me a deferred sentence on the other. That was finally settled on Friday, the 11th. I've also gotta still serve 24 hours in jail because it's some Washington law So all in all, it came out pretty good. I just gotta stay outta trouble (or not get caught) for a year and they'll drop the remaining charge which is kinda in limbo right now. My lawyer also went another step and told me to come see him after 12 months so we can have the arrest expunged so my record will be clean again so that's pretty cool. Tommorrow I'm going in to serve the jail sentence so we'll see how that goes... Thanks to everyone who supplied advice and insight along the way

[fishman3811]

Good luck buddy and dont drop the soap.