Legal Question in Criminal Law in Tennessee

My girlfriend and I, bought marijuana and were taking it back home when we decided to light a pipe and start smoking on the drive back, taking only back roads, we started towards my house and she began having chest pains, so she asked me to drive and i have no permit or license but i wanted to make sure we got home safe, so i agreed to drive. We pulled over at a library and switched seats. I pulled out and then we were blue lighted. The only reason we were pulled over is because when we stopped at the library evidently the police were parked there and we didnt see them, so they thought us switching seats was suspicious. i pulled over and we were honest with the police she gave them her pipe and i gave up my marijuana. It was 4 grams, and we are both 17. Nobody went to jail we both just got citations. And also we couldnt get ahold of her mother so we decided to call my grandma and told her to act like her mom so she or me wouldnt go to jail. we have been together for 2 years and my girlfriend is basically a part of my family so its not like a total stranger signed for her that night. We just need advice on what to do when we go to court. and how to work out this grandmother situation. Please reply. Thank You.

Asked on 7/19/16, 9:43 pm

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If you are 17 tears old you are heading for juvenile court, not adult court.

And the truth (about "grandma") will come out, because a large part of the Juvenile Court process is family intervention.

Meet with an attorney as soon as possible, BEFORE your court date, because every day that passes with the Youth

Services Officers and the Juvenile Court officers preparing a case file based on lies will sound worse as times goes by.

And the more court action that takes place with a bogus "mother" in the file increases the chances that Grandmother will

face ADULT criminal charges.

Answered on 7/20/16, 6:22 am

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