Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

I need to restate my question: I had to plead no contest to 1 count of a criminal misdemeanor charge back in 1997, because a City Attorney fixed the case against me. She filed the case using a perjured police report, and forged a sheriff Detectives signature on two documents. One being a declaration in support of a request for an arrest warrant one month after I was arrested. But it wasn't till years later, when I looked at the archival court file, did I learn she never gave my attorney all that she filed. And when the one count was thrown out by the Judge, the City Attorney at the last minute added a second count without letting my attorney know ahead of time. But in the archival file she had a fake proof of mailing document that showed she had. The file has since been destroyed, but I had made a copy of it just incase. My Attorney is willing to back into court to withdraw my no contest plea, but asked my to find the point law pertaining as to why he has a legal right to withdraw my plea. The legal president I guess. He is doing my a favor and that is why I was asked to do the research. If I'm not stating my situation clearly enough I apologize. Oh, one more thing; someone (the City Attorney I'm guessing) changed the court docket to reflect she did nothing wrong. And yet I have the court papers to prove it was changed. I'm not expecting that this is a typical case, but now that that City Attorney is a Judge since 1996, I'm hoping I can surprise her with her past and make her pay for what she had done to me...


Asked on 9/10/09, 2:23 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Robert Marshall Law Office of Robert L, Marshall

If you already have an attorney, he or she should be doing the legal research.

I would be very skeptical of any lawyer who thinks it is acceptable to send a client to post questions on the Internet.

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Answered on 9/10/09, 6:56 pm


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