My husband apparently backed into the neighbors garage 2 doors down, they were able to piece the headlights together back on his car so it was definitely the car.
The thing is, my husband doesn't remember doing it. He works 3rds and that particular night he worked a longer than normal shift. He dropped our daughter off at preschool and said he came home and went to bed. Next thing he knows, the cops are knocking at the door. The cops asked him if he had been drinking and all sorts of things. My husband said he had one beer but that was after he was home. He should have just kept his mouth shut but he was scared, really scared.
We went to court yesterday and he was ready to plead no contest. He does have a record - a DUI from maybe 12 years ago and some other things but nothing recent unless you count a rolling stop a couple of years ago.
The thing is, the judge didn't let him plea, didn't ask him if he could afford a lawyer or wanted one. I'm not sure my husband even said a word before the judge basically told him to come back on public defender day and rescheduled him.
We live in a small town. I'm really concerned that he's going to throw the book at my husband because he has history and so does his family. My husband is now grown up though... he's a baseball coach and a wrestling coach. Does what he's supposed to and he's going to get screwed.
My question is whether or not we should even see the public defender or just get our own counsel. We make roughly $58,000 together so I don't even know if we qualify for a public defender? This whole process has me baffled and confused.
Any thoughts would be helpful.
The thing is, my husband doesn't remember doing it. He works 3rds and that particular night he worked a longer than normal shift. He dropped our daughter off at preschool and said he came home and went to bed. Next thing he knows, the cops are knocking at the door. The cops asked him if he had been drinking and all sorts of things. My husband said he had one beer but that was after he was home. He should have just kept his mouth shut but he was scared, really scared.
We went to court yesterday and he was ready to plead no contest. He does have a record - a DUI from maybe 12 years ago and some other things but nothing recent unless you count a rolling stop a couple of years ago.
The thing is, the judge didn't let him plea, didn't ask him if he could afford a lawyer or wanted one. I'm not sure my husband even said a word before the judge basically told him to come back on public defender day and rescheduled him.
We live in a small town. I'm really concerned that he's going to throw the book at my husband because he has history and so does his family. My husband is now grown up though... he's a baseball coach and a wrestling coach. Does what he's supposed to and he's going to get screwed.
My question is whether or not we should even see the public defender or just get our own counsel. We make roughly $58,000 together so I don't even know if we qualify for a public defender? This whole process has me baffled and confused.
Any thoughts would be helpful.
