I paid a dr 250 to write me a painkiller script now try to charge me theft by deception what do i do

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Piscataway, NJ asked on October 14, 2015 in Criminal Law for New Jersey

Leonard R. Boyer · Answer

You need to retain the best criminal defense attorney you can afford. This is a lot more serious situation than you realize. Good luck.

H. Scott Aalsberg · Answer

More information is needed but you definitely need to setup a consultation with a criminal lawyer like myself to explain all the facts.  This is an odd charge to get unless they are trying to say that you either did not pay for the script or that you tricked the doctor into writing the script or lastly that you changed the original prescription.  However police don't try to charge you they either do or don't do it.

Mr. Kenneth Albert Vercammen · Answer

Hire an experienced attorney, not an overworked public defender 
2C:20-4 Theft by Deception 
 
Kenneth Vercammen's Law office represents individuals charged with criminal and serious traffic violations throughout New Jersey. The following is the law in New Jersey: 
 
2C:20-4. Theft by deception. 
 
A person is guilty of theft if he purposely obtains property of another by deception. A person deceives if he purposely: 
 
a. Creates or reinforces a false impression, including false impressions as to law, value, intention or other state of mind, and including, but not limited to, a false impression that the person is soliciting or collecting funds for a charitable purpose; but deception as to a person's intention to perform a promise shall not be inferred from the fact alone that he did not subsequently perform the promise; 
 
b. Prevents another from acquiring information which would affect his judgment of a transaction; or 
 
c. Fails to correct a false impression which the deceiver previously created or reinforced, or which the deceiver knows to be influencing another to whom he stands in a fiduciary or confidential relationship. 
 
The term "deceive" does not, however, include falsity as to matters having no pecuniary significance, or puffing or exaggeration by statements unlikely to deceive ordinary persons in the group addressed. 
source http://njlaws.com/theft_by_deception.htm

Q: I paid a dr 250 to write me a painkiller script now try to charge me theft by deception what do i do