Legal Question in Criminal Law in Minnesota

State Charges son as an adult takes 7 months to change to Juvenile
In June 2005 my 18 year old son was charged as an adult with 2 Felony counts that were commited as a 17 year old, He was booked and finger printed at the jail and released to me to await court, knowing that being charged as an adult the felonies would stay on his record, we spent $5,000 (that we could not afford) for a criminal lawyer, after 7 months and 3 times in adult court hearings last month they finnally figued out they should have been trying this in juvenile court, the case was heard today and took 5 minutes.. If the state would not have had me believing this was going to be on his adult record, and would have charged him as a juvenile in the 1st place I never would have hired a lawyer for a juvenile case, can I some how get some of my 5,000 back that I never would have spent had he been charged correctly in the 1st place?

Asked on 2/08/06, 6:13 pm

J. Chris Carpenter Harvey and Carpenter

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Re: State Charges son as an adult takes 7 months to change to Juvenile

Maybe your lawyer had something to do with getting the case back to juvenile court where it belonged. I wouldn't be asking for money back.

I'd be sending the attorney a thank you note.

Herbert C. Kroon

Attorney at Law

Answered on 2/10/06, 11:48 am

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