Comments by "Rich B" (@richb1576) on "LAWYER: Why you'll REGRET taking probation." video.

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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