Ocilla, GA Criminal Defense Law Firms & Lawyers

You should expect that the prosecutor and judge will be annoyed, and will want to hear some explanation about how you were using someone's credit card multiple times over multiple days to get what you want. If you minimize yoru criminal activity, you should expect a harsh punishment. After all, you cannot tell the judge you were hanging out with the wrong people, or you had a momentary lapse of judgment. There are 25 counts of the fraud.

If the police arrested both of you, it will be up to the prosecutor as to who to charge - if they do not simply charge both of you. You may need an attorney to assist you and, without knowing all the facts, I cannot completely answer this question but I can make some suggestions: Do not lose contact with the witnesses; this is particularly true of witnesses that are not your friends or family; you may need these witnesses to help you. If you are charged, your statements can be used ONLY against you, not for you; thus, if you told the police, "I didn't start it, but I hit him;" the only part of that statement that can be used in court is the 'I hit him' part because the other part is only useful for you; so, the truth here is tricky since some of the truth may help to convict you.

To properly answer your question would likely require a thorough examination of the eventual police reports. The prosecution cannot convict you based on a confession alone (based on the corpus dereliction rules in Washington State) so there would need to be some additional form of evidence of possession to convict you. If the police can testify to some reason to believe you had cocaine, and that they observed you with a white, powdery substance prior to you placing it in your mouth, they would be getting closer to having a provable case. As such, it is very fact specific.