Comments by "Rich B" (@richb1576) on "Hampton Law" channel.

  1. That happened to a friend of mine. He got arrested for a fight and there were some other things in there and he went before the judge with a bunch of charges. His public defender was super swamped with cases and he told the judge that yes he was drunk and in a fight but most of the charges were bogus and he did not feel that the public defender was defending him properly. Judge said theres a plea deal. Either accept it or plead innocent so he did that and got a jury trial. We did a go fund me campaign and some hometown fund raisers and got him a lawyer who immediately got him an extension. The original plea had his jail time at 5 years. He would instead get probation for 3 years. His new lawyer got almost all of the charges dropped and the charge of assault dropped to a mister meaner and the public drunk charge dropped to public nuisance. He had to do 100 hrs community service which was basically walking the town beach for a few hours every Saturday picking up trash. No probation. No jail time sitting over his head and when his 100 hours were done his record was sealed. Not to disparage public defenders. They do the best they can but their case loads are just crazy. Prosacuters take advantage of this and load up the probation system. Its all a huge money maker. You’re better off getting your own lawyer if you can.
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  2. I no longer drink but back in my youth I drank. One day driving home I got stoped for not completely stopping at a stop sign. I had 1 beer at a friend’s house. I even told the cop I had 1 beer. I refused the field sobriety but had to take the breathalyzer by law or lose my license. Well I had requested a blood test because the breathalyzers are not accurate. They took me to the station and the breathalyzer showed .01 over the limit. I got charged and processed and let go. I immediately went to quest and got a blood draw test and that saved me. Even with .01 over its still a dui conviction. We submitted the blood draw to the court to show I was way under the limit. The prosecutor argued time was a factor in my low blood alcohol content. We had an expert that showed how blood alcohol works and going backwards from my blood draw it would take 3 hours from over the limit to where I was at that time. Since my arrest was apx 2 hours before my blood draw it was medically impossible for me to be over the limit at that time. Also my lawyer was asking for all the documentation for the machine and the police were working on the request and were asking for a continuance. The judge sided with the medical expert and dismissed my case.
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  3. How about how to get on jury duty. I have gotten 3 jury duty summons my whole life and each time I called the night before and got cancelled. I would love to serve on a jury. What can I do?
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