firingsquad123
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My jurisdiction is: Florida
I am a 20 year old junior at The Florida State University. A few weeks ago, after a football game(2:30am to be precise), my roommate and I were walking through campus on our way home. As we walked through one of the tailgate lots we noticed a foldaway plastic table blocking the sidewalk we were on(folded up on the sidewalk). In need of a table, we picked it up and continued on our way. We were asked to stop by a campus cop so we did and approached him. He asked us what we were doing, and we told him we were on our way home, saw the table and picked it up. He flipped the table over and spray painted on the bottom of the table was, "Property of FSU." He wrote us a written arrest for Petit Theft(Misdemeanor Statue 812.014).
I was offered the Diversion program and planned on taking that. However, I made a terrible judgment call, and got another written arrest for Minor in Possession just a few days ago.
My main question as of right now is regarding acceptance/denial of the Diversion program. Will I still be able to accept the program or will they rescind the offer in light of my second arrest? One of the programs stipulations is that if I get in trouble within three months of signing the paper and accepting the program(which I haven't done just yet), they will prosecute me for the original Petit Theft charge. Is this the time/date of the my second charge, or will the court date be considered during that three month window.
I really just don't know where to start. As of now,I am taking these cases one step at a time and treating them individually, but I don't know whether I should be, or if I should be changing my decisions of the first case based on the second. Any help or general advice would be much appreciated.
Thank You,
Scott
I am a 20 year old junior at The Florida State University. A few weeks ago, after a football game(2:30am to be precise), my roommate and I were walking through campus on our way home. As we walked through one of the tailgate lots we noticed a foldaway plastic table blocking the sidewalk we were on(folded up on the sidewalk). In need of a table, we picked it up and continued on our way. We were asked to stop by a campus cop so we did and approached him. He asked us what we were doing, and we told him we were on our way home, saw the table and picked it up. He flipped the table over and spray painted on the bottom of the table was, "Property of FSU." He wrote us a written arrest for Petit Theft(Misdemeanor Statue 812.014).
I was offered the Diversion program and planned on taking that. However, I made a terrible judgment call, and got another written arrest for Minor in Possession just a few days ago.
My main question as of right now is regarding acceptance/denial of the Diversion program. Will I still be able to accept the program or will they rescind the offer in light of my second arrest? One of the programs stipulations is that if I get in trouble within three months of signing the paper and accepting the program(which I haven't done just yet), they will prosecute me for the original Petit Theft charge. Is this the time/date of the my second charge, or will the court date be considered during that three month window.
I really just don't know where to start. As of now,I am taking these cases one step at a time and treating them individually, but I don't know whether I should be, or if I should be changing my decisions of the first case based on the second. Any help or general advice would be much appreciated.
Thank You,
Scott
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