Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

Don't talk to cops unless you like jail. Saying "No, that's not my handwriting" could send you to jail just as surely as saying "Yes, it is." Every word that passes your lips is evidence against you. You need to learn to say nothing at all except "Officer, I have nothing to say to you without an attorney present.". Do not consent to searches. Do not volunteer a handwriting sample and do not go to the police station. The judge is not going to hear "both sides of the case" unless loser-boyfriend hires a lawyer. Theoretically he is entitled to a public defender, but you get what you pay for and the many questions we see on LawGuru indicate that public defenders often don't do much except pressure defendants into possibly ill-advised guilty pleas. If indeed you were helping loser-boyfriend scam prescriptions, it's you who needs to hire a lawyer. Get the phone number of a lawyer before they arrest you, which seems very possible from what you've said.

Your lengthy post contains too much identifiable information to disclose on a public site like LawGuru, where it can be read by cops and prosecutors. (I know they read sites like this because I've had prosecutors check me out by reading my internet posts prior to major trials.) Anyone familiar with this case would immediately recognize your identify from the details you've posted.

You should immediately contract LawGuru customer service and ask them to remove your post. (There's an option for LawGuru attorneys to delete a post and send a private email to the poster, letting them know why it was deleted; unfortunately, that only works before somebody has posted an answer, and the non-answer above prevents me from protecting you.)

I also wonder about anyone who perpetuates this kind of public defender-bashing, especially when there's nothing in your question on the subject. Lawyers, both court-appointed and privately retained, vary widely in ability; many of the best attorneys in California are public defenders, and there are many private lawyers who take big bucks for a shoddy defense. Here's what the California Court of Appeal has to say on the subject:

"It is an odd phenomenon familiar to all trial judges who handle arraignment calendars that some criminal defendants have a deep distrust for the public defender. This erupts from time to time in savage abuse to these long-suffering but dedicated lawyers. It is almost a truism that a criminal defendant would rather have the most inept private counsel than the most skilled and capable public defender. Often the arraigning judge appoints the public defender only to watch in silent horror as the defendant's family, having hocked the family jewels, hire a lawyer for him, sometimes a marginal misfit who is allowed to represent him only because of some ghastly mistake on the part of the Bar Examiners..."

(People v. Huffman (1977) 71 Cal.App.3d 63, 70 [139 Cal. Rptr. 264],fn.2.)