Expert: Robin Sexton - 4/16/2008

Question
Hello I am being charge with some thing that did not happen it was said to of happened back in 2004 and they now are charging me with this because it took them this long to fined me but not true because i lived at the house for a year after this happened I just his is wrong to do this to me .Well what happened is we took my wife sister in to live with us every thing was good for about a year then a year or so later she said I made her do things witch I did not so I guess for 4 years I had 7 charges sitting out there that i did not know about got pulled over for runing a red light and then was told from a cop about this but why did none of the other times I got puled over did this not come up just don't think something is right hear so can i just plea these down to probation and move on with my life and i live in las vegas what would you say my chances are thanks.

Answer
Justin,

You have several questions in here, let me see if I can answer some of them.
First without having a complete knowledge of the charges against you, the evidence and a through understanding of Nevada law and the practices in Las Vegas I would have no way of knowing what your chances are of reducing these to a probation type offense.  You need a local attorney experienced in criminal law to advise you on that.  By the way you describe the charges, one should be appointed for you.

Why did it take so long to serve the warrants ?  Really hard to say, agencies, investigators, prosecutors get busy with other cases that take priority.  It is not first come first serve.  The warrants could have been on file for awhile and did not make it to the top of the stack to serve, they may not have been put in the system in a timely manner, the other officers that stopped you may not have run your name, the victim may have delayed reporting, etc.

You definitely need to discuss this with a competent criminal attorney.  These charges sound like they could be very serious.

Good luck


Robin