Legal Question in Criminal Law in South Carolina

If a child is forced by their parent to falsely accuse an adult of a crime, and then the prosecutor threatenes the accused with prison, if he refused to plea guilty, and now the grownup-child wants to set the record straight, is there any legal way for this grownup child to have charges against the falsely accused dismissed? The accused has documented proof that he was denied his rights to an attorney, to a jury-trial, and Miranda Rights were not read to him, and while in the presence of a witness, the prosecutoe did threaten the accused.


Asked on 11/05/09, 6:32 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Robert Johnston Law Offices of Robert J. Johnston

The manner in which you asked the question makes it very difficult to answer. Why not just tell me what happened?

You will need to provide details and be very specific. Right now I have nothing to work with. I don't know.............

How old the child was or is now

How long ago this took place

What the crime was

What really confuses me is that they way you wrote this, it give me the impression that this happened a very long time ago. But then you asked if the charges can be dropped, which make me think that the charges are still pending.

I'm afraid that if you want good legal advise, you will have to take the time out to write in detal what happened, when, to whom. and so forth.

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Answered on 11/10/09, 7:39 pm


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