Legal Question in Criminal Law in Tennessee

Long story short. I was paying my court fines on a case I recently pled guilty to and turns out that I have 2 cases I haven't committed and one is a robbery charge and other is a drug charge that both are also violation of probation. My question is who didn't do there job cause these cases are more than 11 yrs old. I mean wouldn't I have outstanding warrants and I ask my p.o to look into who handled the case and there just giving me the runaround. Did I add the case I plead guilty to was a class b felony and my attorney said my record showed nothing but this one charge I plead to I wasn't elgiblie for a pre trial either witch I think these two cases that are on my record affect my first and only charge I have ever gotten. I believe a person stole my identity or someone on the inside put those there to make my only charge sever what should I do. Might I add these charges are from 2006. In 2014 I bought a ar15 rifle and I know my background was ran by fbi. How is it that I got the gun if I had these charges I didn't know about


Asked on 8/22/17, 10:22 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Charles Bloodworth

You said: "I have two cases I haven't committed that both are a violation of probation."

Do you mean "There are two outstanding charges, I was recently arrested for them, the offenses are alleged to have been committed 11 years ago?"

Or do you mean: "They say I was convicted of two offenses 11 years ago, placed on probation, and now they are violating my probation?"

How did "it turned out I have two cases?" Who told you?

An ATF check (not FBI) to buy a weapon should show convictions of disqualifying offenses (felony, domestic violence) but sometimes records are incomplete, sometimes the computer is down and the time limit for rejection of the sale runs out, and often unserved warrants won't be in the data base.

Your probation officer can conduct a records check, so can your attorney who handled the Class B felony.

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Answered on 8/23/17, 6:23 am


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