Legal Question in Criminal Law in California
What can I expect to happen in court after I was arrested and served two days in jail for a 2008 warrant for failure to appear.
2 Answers from Attorneys
It would depend upon what the underlying charge was and what you were arrested for when you served two days.
In your case, you�ll try to negotiate a recall of the warrant[s] and seek bail reduction or OR release if that hasn't already been done. You�ll try to negotiate a plea bargain on any �Failure to Appear� charge or probation violation that caused the warrant. You�ll try to negotiate a plea bargain or take to trial the outstanding charge that caused the warrant. Effective plea-bargaining by your attorney, using whatever legal defenses, facts and sympathies there may be, could possibly keep you out of jail/prison, or at least dramatically reduce it, and may enable you to get any probation and programs reinstated. Unless you're competent to effectively represent yourself in court against a professional prosecutor trying to put you in jail, most people hire an attorney who can. If serious about hiring counsel to help in this, feel free to contact me.
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