Legal Question in Criminal Law in Virginia

Re: warrant

Avoiding the arrest warrant is not going to help you. It will only postpone the issue.

While it probably makes sense to get your ducks in a row before you go in, and try to "control" (legally, in terms of criminal defense) how things go, avoiding the arrest warrant is not going to help you and is going to hurt you.

So you should line up a good criminal defense attorney right away, so he will have time to sort things out, perhaps get an extension of time, and then agree with them that he will walk you in, and walk with you, and make sure everyhing is done right.

From what you describe, you should be able to beat the charge completely.

Being charged is not a problem. Being found guilty would be the problem.

So you don't want to avoid the charge, you want to beat it.

However, I do NOT mean you can simply assume it will fall into place. You need legal help to make SURE it works out and you can beat it.

For example... What your friend says will either save you or kill you.

You need to get her statement locked in. You ought to have an attorney sit down with a court reporter and get her side of the story RIGHT NOW.

I could probably do that much for you, WITHOUT necessarily being your attorney overall. It would be worth you paying an attorney for an hour or two of time plus a court reporter maybe $100 to get her side of the story locked in under oath.

If she changes her story, you're dead.

If someone puts pressure on her, who knows? If someone puts the squeeze on her for some reason, she may feel FORCED to say what they want her to say.

Are there any other witnesses? Even on tangential issues? You need to lock them in, too, before someone starts to pressure them.

Have you been to court before (on this)? If this is the FIRST court date then all that will happen is they will set a court date later for the actual trial.

What County is this in (the charges)/