Q: best/worse case scenario for someone charged with theft of $44 item. public defender says multiple days in jail 1st off.
also accused of ovi during same time frame. defendant was pulled out of vehicle and put in cuffs before field test was ever given. he simply asked "what's your drugs of choice?" 1st charge. OVI- on our way to work and was exhausted after a 2 week horse show. It was over an hour drive between where we were staying and the WEC center in Wilmington. I was having a hard time staying awake and was pulled over. The office asked what my "drug of choice was." And when I replied that it use to be heroin but that I was clean and had been he pulled me out of the car and gave me a field sobriety test where he stated I was acting high. That I was "slurring my words and having a hard time staying awake." Non of these characteristics were true. wed been working 15+ hours a day for the last 10 days all while our camper which we live in and we're traveling in to this horse show broke down 3 times during that time we had gotten 2-3 hrs of sleep per night
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