Legal Question in Criminal Law in New York
Iwas arrested and charged with robbery,petit larceny,harrassment,assualt,and arrainged the next morning. The lesser charges Iwas arraigned on the robbery was not called at arraignement. I thought the robbery charged was droped. I went back to court five days later and the robbery charge was not brought up. I asked the judge to send the case to drug since I was already in drug court and I was arrested trying to steal to support my addiction. The judge said no and sent me back to jail so the next week Iwent to drug court and told the drug court judge of my being atrrested and asked for him to send me to long term treatment.He said yes so I also said that I got arrested and the other judge would not send the case to him he said he would handle it.Three weeks later I was released to long term treatment. While in treatment it seems the D.A. indicted me on the robbery charge and there was a court apperance I did not know about. I went to treatment november/24/09 and on january 28 there was a warrant issued for me. How could that be I was never informed of a court apperance. How could that be again I thought that the case was just lower level charges not a felony. Sholuld I been told of and indictment band given a court date to appear for arraignment on the charge,allowed a bail. Now as stated there is a warrant for me Iam syill min treatment band do not want to stop now that Iam geting the help Ineeded and also geting things done like going to vocational school to get my class b license so I will be able to provide for my new grandson my first granchild. Please tell me what to do if there is anything I can do did they mess up because someone shuld of notified me so I could of been there. Now it looks like Iam not respecting the court.
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