Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

My 26 year old son, who has been an upstanding citizen all his life. He is a firefighter, a high school football coach and owns a transmission business with his dad. He made a big mistake, and had a "one night stand" with some 34 year old woman with 5 kids. She came back to my son claiming to be pregnant by him. He told her that he wants nothing to do with her, but when the baby is born they will have a DNA test and he will do the responsible thing.

Since that day almost 9 months ago, she has stalked him, tried to run him off the road, left nasty discusting text messages, and tried to hurt his girlfriend, He was coaching his football game on Friday night when she proceeded to text him 15-20 nasty messages about his family, etc. She kept threatening to take every thing from him and make his life a 'living HELL". She must have gone a little too far on Friday night. You see, my son went to confront her to tell her to leave him alone and whatever. She taunted him and the problem is, he ended up shooting her 3 times. She is fine, but he is being charged with attempted murder. My question is ...being the good person I know him to be what can we expect in court? The DA is talking 20-life. I know he has a lot of the community supporting him and they are writing letters and are going to make appeareances in court. I am just beside myself with worry. Out of anyone in the world. he is the last person I would expect to have done this. Please help me!!

Thank you,

DJ


Asked on 11/09/09, 6:00 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Deirdre O'Connor Law Offices of Deirdre O'Connor

I assume your son has a lawyer. If he does not, you need to get him a lawyer right away!

In the meantime, PLEASE stop posting details about your son's case online. You are putting far too much detail about your son's case on a public forum. I have no doubt that you want to help, so my advice would be not to write anymore about your son. The DA can find this post and use it against your son. You could be called to testify against him and forced to reveal damaging facts. You will hurt your son's lawyer's chances if you continue to talk about your understanding of the facts. Let the lawyer handle it.

One of the most important things family can do for their loved ones is to respect the lawyer's advice and NOT talk to your son or anyone else about the facts of the case. Anything your son tells his lawyer is confidential. Anything your son tells you is NOT.

Best of luck!

Deirdre

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Answered on 11/14/09, 9:40 pm


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