Legal Question in Criminal Law in Virginia

Plea bargaining
My son is charged in a conspiracy to distrube methenpheniamnes.None was found on him. He has
3 witness that pleaded quilty to charges testifing
against him. They want him to plead guilty, using
pressure by stating they will leave his family alone.
They say they will give him 20 yrs instead of life. I
feel they want him to plead because they are not sure
of a jury guilty plea. They instructed his lawyer to
inform they family to stop talking him out of a quilty
plea or he will get life and this is the only plea they
will agree to is 20 yrs. How is this fair when the other
was caught with 500 grams of meth and pleaded guilty. They
are getting only 15 yrs

Asked on 11/30/02, 2:31 pm

Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

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Re: Plea bargaining

If it truly is as you say regarding "they", meaning,I assume, the prosecutors, that "they"

are not confident of a jury verdict in favor of the Commonwealth, then, perhaps, your son and his

attorneys should be thinking seriously about

proceeding to trial.

Answered on 11/30/02, 6:54 pm

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