Legal Question in Criminal Law in New Jersey

3 charges- Terroristic threats, unlawful possession of weapon and unlawful use of a weapon.

Hello, I am seeking legal consultation and what your opinion the outcome of this case will likely be. Also, because I am now going to need an attorney I would like prices and when your available to speak in person. What I am going to do is send you the apology letter that I sent the student I had an altercation with it describes everything that occurred. "Hello, I am writing this letter to apologize to not only the individual that I had an altercation with on Thursday night, but also to apologize to the entire PSK NJIT organization. I�m extremely ashamed of my actions and just wanted to explain myself. On Thursday night, me and a buddy of mine decided to have a few drinks (Ciroc and Hennesey, very stupid mistake to mix both) and possibly go out and find a party. After we had got done drinking we stopped by my car to pick up my pocket knife that I always carry with me after dark whenever I walk on campus(because students are always getting robbed in the area as you guys know), which ended up being the biggest mistake of my life. Shortly after we began our walk to the infamous �frat� row and selected the PSK house as our first destination because we saw them grant entry to a group of five guys one of them being my friend who was sending me hand signals to follow them. We decided to walk up the steps and try to get in the party, well when we got up there the guy in front(a tall, muscular Caucasian male) accompanied by I would say four frat brothers denied us entry in what we perceived to be a very rude fashion. Me and my friend felt that he wasn�t letting us in because we were Hispanic or because he thought that we weren�t students (random dangerous Newark teenagers try to enter frat parties all of the time), so as we were walking away we began to say things like �let�s leave man he�s being a fag�. I realize now that saying that was mistake because I had no solid proof that he wasn�t allowing me into the party because I wasn�t white or a girl and at the end of the day he was just doing his job of making sure that the house isn�t overloaded with people. Now as we continued our walk the guy kept talking back at us and I heard him say something along the lines �Man do you know how many frat brothers I can get outside right now to beat your ass�. Once I heard this, my drunk reaction was to respond to a threat with a threat, so I very stupidly took out my knife and flashed it to him and said �you have them and I have this�. Literally a millisecond after I did that my friend began telling me� bro such an idiot for doing that put that thing away� and I decided to walk back to my car in the parking deck to put the knife away and go to sleep in my dorm and call it a night. The more I think about it the reason that I flashed the knife was to kind of match his toughness(I�m 5�6 and 140 pound, I�m not very frightening), although I know that I didn�t have it in me to stab someone even if they were robbing or jumping me because I knew that if I were robbed or jumped I would still live, but if I stab someone there�s a chance they will die and that�s something I would not be able to live with, saying of all this defeats the purpose of even carrying a knife, but I guess I just liked the power that I felt It gave when walking around by myself at night. My friends kept calling me to come back, but I refused and kept walking by myself because I was so ashamed of what I just did. I continued walking down MLK Blvd. and got to the corner of warren and mlk(where the architecture building is about four blocks away) and I got stopped by police. I was arrested and spent the night in the njit police building where I was charged with three charges. The purpose of this letter is not to justify my actions, but more to inform this organization of what had occurred to the best of my recollection (I was drunk) and to express how regretful and ashamed I am at my uncharacteristic actions. I know a few people in this frat and that makes me even more ashamed of how they might look at me now and I�ve been to many parties at this fraternity throughout my college career and nothing even remotely close to this has ever occurred. I�m a senior electrical engineering student with a computer science minor and I am only one semester away from graduating and no prior criminal record and a very frequent church going citizen who always does his part in helping people out. My mother who works 60 hour weeks to put me through college (I am the first in my family to ever attend college) cannot afford a lawyer, so I�m currently in a very tough situation. My point by telling you that is that this isn�t who I am, I allowed the alcohol (which I rarely drink) to dictate my actions and I am facing very severe consequences for my actions. This apology is coming from the bottom of my heart and I can�t begin to explain how regretful I am of my actions (haven�t had more than an hour of sleep without nightmares or very bad visions). Hopefully this organization and the guy that I had the altercation with can forgive me. Thank you for your time."

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