Legal Question in Criminal Law in Wisconsin

You will not be sentenced at the time of the preliminary hearing and probably could not even plead guilty at the stage if you wanted to. It is often a critical stage for negotiations, however, so you should write the judge and DA immediately, asking for an adjournment so that you can retain an experienced criminal lawyer before the preliminary hearing, and you should hand deliver these letters today due to the shortness of time. Identity theft is a serious crime which will have a lifetime impact upon your employability regardless of the sentence, so your concerns should go well beyond what will happen to you on this charge alone, even if prison may not be a common outcome for first offenders. Probation with lengthily county jail time as a condition is a likely outcome, however, as is prison if your defense is handled poorly.

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