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Thank you for your help, I keep hoping I'll find the needle in the haystack.

I understand, but they got the information they wanted from her. They never presented the plea to the judge, not until the day she was to plead. Her lawyer had told her and myself that the deal written on a letter head from the DA could not be broken, that they had to enforce it. So she...

So they can make the deal without the judge knowing the judge can withdraw the plea? Yet they get what they needed and then there are no cards left on the table. How is this legal?

heroin and cocaine over 20 oz 23 No criminal background

They did not involve the judge, they got the information they wanted from her, and then the public defender told the newspaper she was getting a four year sentence. The judge was in her chamber for three hours berating everyone from the assistant DA to all the lawyers. Then when my daughter...

I guess so. Thank you both for your responses. I have no clue what rights we have any more, the worst part is watching a kid throw their life away.

They would be able to prove it, she had drugs in the car. Quite a lot. I just don't understand how the DA can pitch an offer, she accepts it and the judge says no at the last minute. I think the DA was in on it. Now she is getting five years in prison and five years parole. This is her first...

My daughter was arrested for drugs. The Da offered her four years typed and signed on paper; the Judge said the sentence was too lenient, saying she would accept nothing less than five and a half years. Was this legal? My daughter has a Public Defender who I believe has misrepresented her...