Legal Question in Criminal Law in Virginia

Re: Priv or public place, Please help, This is a nightmare come true

Under the circumstances which you've described, your son was very ill-advised to have summoned the local constabulary over a damaged play station. Some unhappy result was virtually certain to ensue from this volatile mix of circumstances which now is likely to cost many times the value of the play station.

Nevertheless, whether the charge is DIP(drunk in public), disorderly conduct, resisting arrest or assault and battery on a police officer, or some combination thereof, you will now need to engage the services of a competent defense counsel to represent you on one or more of these criminal charges which never needed to have come about had but you and your son exercised a little more prudence.(And in that respect with regard to yourself, I'm not referring to your copious libations but rather to your mistake in going outside to meet/greet the officers and then telling them specifically how much you had had to drink which immediately put them in the arrest mode. You should've stayed well put where you were, inside your dwelling, volunteering minimal information and let the one who summoned them do the talking and answer their questions.)

All of the foregoing, of course, is lawyerly analysis and hindsight but, hopefully, somebody

somewhere out there(in cyberspace or, perhaps, even in your domestic space)will learn something from this unhappy episode and take a lesson therefrom and make it part of his or her foresight should he or she confront a similar situation at some future time.

Re: Priv or public place, Please help, This is a nightmare come true

Was there a question there?

Let me guess... Drunk in Public, Resisting Arrest and Assaulting a Police Officer (being a felony). You probably did resist arrest but I have no doubt the Gestapo tactics drove you to it. You need witnesses as to the police behavior and a very good lawyer. Skimp on either at your own peril.

Good luck.