Just A Question?! shoplifting?!?
My roommate Get taped shoplifting from her job 20 days a go. when the security asked her did she take anything she said NO. but the tape say something Else. the security called the police and they make a report. they let her go but she lost her job. and cant shop from that store anymore. she tough that is over. yesterday I reserved a phone call from the officer asking me to let her now that her need to turn her self in to the police station. I picked her up and let her know that she need to turn her self in . she was really scared. when we get there asked the officer whats ganna happen she told me she is getting arrested and she ganna take her to the magistrate I'm district court of my county. she told me if she doesn't have any criminal record they will let her go with a bound. of 2000 dollars. she don't have nobody. so I had to bound her. I was wait ting there 4 hours she came out crying I felt so bad for her she told they treated her like criminal. and she was so scared. now she have a court day nest two months.the court date papers said she took Items below 200. what is ganna happened next. she cant afford a lawyer/ and is shes ganna go jail?!! we live in VA Fairfax county thank u
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well there nothing u can do for her exept pray they ll go easy on her or u could pay for her layer but think of it this way she did somthing and is now paying the price life is hard she must learn frm her mistake and u must learn how to be cold
you can't know what the court will decide, but no mater what they decide to do, it's not going to be a fun day for her.
More than likely no, if this is here first offense, they will probably make her pay for the items and ban here from the store, she could also be put on probation, it just all depends on what the judge charges her with, if she can't afford a lawyer she can always go to the public defender for help.
Not to be harsh, but they treated her like a criminal because she IS a criminal.
She will have to go to court, where she will have the option of pleading guilty or not guilty. If she pleads guilty or is convicted, she will probably have to do one or more of the following, depending on the amount that she stole: pay a fine, serve some jail time, do community service, get put on probation.
If she can't afford a lawyer, and there is a chance of jailtime, she can get a public defender.
Be thankful she wasnt alive 1000 years ago doing that, they wouldve put her in a guillotine for week or worse.
Either your friend is lying or the video tape got tampered with. Or perhaps she's an accessory and the real culprit
some how avoided the camera and got away.
When you say you bound her, does that mean you tied her up? Bound means tied up/tie up- as in bound and gaged.
You say she has nobody, but she has you. Can't you help her? When a person gets in trouble and has nobody, that's unfortunate and irrelevant when it comes to, proving innocence. My adivse, is she tell the truth, and get an atttorney. I'm not sure how it is in Virginia, but generally
if a person can't afford an attorney, one gets appointed. But some times that appointed attorney can't be trusted. She could go to jail, yes. Unless she can prove her innocence.
I recommend that once the trial is over, if she's free, you and she leave the state and change her name. maybe you should change yours, too.
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