Legal Question in Criminal Law in Washington

Dropped Charges

My son has a trial coming up in King

County Juvenille Court on charges of

felony harrassment. He was 14

when this happened, I am the

person (his father) whom he

threatened an who initially called the

poilice. Since his arrest, we have

found out that he is Bipolar and has

a developmental delay related to his

emotional behavior. We have had

him in counselling and he is receiving

medication.... both seeming to have

an impact. Now his mother and I are

wondering if we still have the option

to have charges against him dropped

based on what we now know. There

were no other ''victims'' in the police

report and again, I am now

convinced he was having a Bipolar

episode. His trial is scheduled for the

4th of October and I am losing

confidence in his court appointed

attorney. Can we still request that

charges be dropped and if so, how

would we go about that? Thank you

for your quick response.


Asked on 9/24/07, 2:04 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
James J. White, attorney Law Offices of Smith & White, PLLC

Re: Dropped Charges

Unfortunately, it is not in your power to "dropped the charges." That is something shown repeatedly on TV and perhaps in other State's victims do have such a power but not in the State of Washington. I have a consultation fee of $200. I think it would be well worth your time to sit down with me and discuss this in person. I can meet you tomorrow morning if you are available or we can schedule something for Friday.

At your service,

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Answered on 9/24/07, 2:20 pm


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