Arraignment, Bail, Bonds, Pretrial property damage- b misdemeaner

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saralaw

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I will try this forum to see if anyone can help.

My husband was charged with a b misdemeaner for property damage on our neighbor's dog. He shot it with a bb gun to get it off our property because it was about to attack our cat again. It had already attacked and bit our daughter in the process which was not reported, but we have plenty of evidence backing that up.
the dog apparently died on their property and claimed he used a 22 caliber(it was a bb) and the sweet dog was just chasing our cat and never had bit our daughter. They somehow got the prosecutors to press charges. The sheriff told us not to beat ourselves up at the time because we had the right to protect our property. One week later notified of charges in the newspaper. Letter mailed to wrong address.
Had to hire attorney who has given our side of story to prosecutors but somehow it has been 6 months and can't seem to get them to dismiss. The second pretrial, the DA called in sick and the other attorney said he wasn't touching this with a 10 foot pole. Another pretrial set for January.
We are told it is political but can't seem to understand what is political about this except these people had some connection to lie about incident to get this pushed through.
They have harassed us horrifically with visual signs for the entire neighborhood and spread lies about the incident as well, and the sheriff said they couldn't do anything because it was a civil matter and we have to file a suit. Our attorney says we should wait until this matter is cleared and dismissed. It has been too long without any answers and nothing but lies about the situation.
Is our attorney working for us or do we need to get a new one? Any help would be nice.
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I say if your not happy with your attorney sit down let him know and see if s/he will change. But make sure , your attorney know's the whole situation from a to z so s/he could have a very good reason for going the path s/he is.
 
Thank you. We are really trying to be patient and trusting this is the correct path. We have outright stated to him if he feels this ridiculous case would compromise his relationship with the prosecutors, we would understand and move on. Our attorney knows every detail of the harrassment to the our confusion of the case. Last we heard that he was so close to a dismissal. We are getting very impatient.
What are the legalities of the other party not forthcoming with story and lies to pursue this? We think the prosecutors didn't have the entire story and now that they do, they are stuck with property damage charges which it was, but all the circumstances were not revealed until too late.
 
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