Legal Question in Criminal Law in Virginia

If while intoxicated you accuse a party of a crime and a police report is filed, but then once sober you are informed that the crime was not committed, will the accuser be charged with filing a false police report even though at the time they truly believed what they were reporting was to be true?


Asked on 5/13/12, 11:52 am

1 Answer from Attorneys

Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

That would most likely be up to the cops and the local prosecutor assigned to

the matter.

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Answered on 5/13/12, 1:35 pm


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