My son (20 y.o.) returned to college this week and attended a welcome week party where he was jumped by several young men. He went home and called police to report the incident and they came. In telling them the story, he said that he had had a couple of beers. They went to the location of the party where everyone was gone, came back to my son's apartment, and then issued him an MIP. Unfortunately, my son is on probation for another MIP that he got at a party in early summer when he came home from his first year away at college. He was fined, ordered to do community service, attend classes/counseling, and got a year probation. Now, I already know that my son may be jeaded for trouble if he continues his partying, but he really is a good kid who has never been in any other kind of trouble, is responsible with good grades, etc. My real question is: They never gave him any kind of test or do anything other than issue the MIP based on what he said in the telling of his story. Can this charge stand? What should he do at his court appearance? How to best fight this? Can he claim the Fifth Amendment if they ask him if he was drinking? HELP HELP HELP!!! Personally, I think it's shameful that he called the police for help and instead got punished for it, besides being assaulted. What a sick and sad message for them to be sending!!! But... how to get him out of this with the least harm to the rest of his life?