Legal Question in Criminal Law in Georgia

my son has a learning disability, is schizophrenic, has adhd, is bipolar and was not on his medications and was a party to a phone call where one individual threatened to shoot a person and my son said " I will beat his a**!" my son was immediately remanded to a county lockup and stayed in custody for 6months. He went to court and his Public Defense attorney performed NO discovery in his case and he was convicted of felony terroristic threats and received 5 years probation. The court never took any of the variables into consideration in regards to his disabilities. His new PDA discovered that NO discovery in regards to his case took place and said that the state had NO evidence in my sons file whatsoever. We have asked that the county reduce his sentence to a harassing phone call charge consider time served and remove the felony conviction. Does his part of the original conversation more so constitute a harassing phone call considering his mental disability and lack of meds at the time? He is currently on meds , singing in a church choir, been baptized and volunteering due to the fact he is under control using prescribed medications.


Asked on 10/29/13, 3:31 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Scott Riddle Law Office of Scott B. Riddle, LLC

Yo are asking for a guess (and a meaningless one at that) about a conversation we did not hear, based only on what you chose to tell us (and presumably you did not hear the conversation. That does not help your son. Have the lawyer handle it, or hire another lawyer.

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Answered on 10/29/13, 3:39 pm


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