tobala said:
^^^^ You're young and full of rage. But the traitors are too powerful and no judge or jury will buy the argument that FBI agents or their snitches or congressmen are committing treason.
If the case is air-tight against you, listen to your lawyer because it's better for the Good Team to not have you in a cage.
I'd listen to my lawyer if he'd talk to me...
He's on vacation this week.
The prosecuting attorney has been trying to reach him, my lawyer knows this, told me this on Tuesday (when I called him for the 2nd time this week), but has done nothing to find out what the offer is.
I don't know if there's a time clause on a plea bargain, but if there is, and it's passed, I'm going to be really pissed off.
Day 1, (of talking to my attorney) he said that I could expect a plea bargain of about 4 years.
I'm only looking at 6 1/2 - 8 years if they try me at offense level 28.
This includes conspiracy charges for more pills than I ever came in contact with (er... extra pills totaling nearly double what I ever came in contact with on top of what I am alleged to have come in contact with - appx. 3X what I had actually done)
This is before any downward departures for cooperating (foolishly) after my arrest...
Downward departures for having no criminal history,
Downward departures for financial reasons (I'd be dumping $70,000 in debt on my parents if I get locked up)...
I'm realistically looking at 3 1/2 - 5 years if I'm granted the downward departures I'm eligible for.
Why would I PLEA for 4 years?
I don't seem to have much choice other than to listen to my attorney, but I don't like it, I don't really care for him at the moment
(because I don't think he's doing ANYTHING; he told me that it would be better to not bring up ANY kind of contnention on ANYTHING - including the questioning and denying me my right to an attorney, questioning the constitutionality of the laws, etc... - because it would stop the prosecutor from giving me a plea deal.
To me, it just sounds like he doesn't want to work. HE should be bringing these things up as a 3rd party because they violate the constitution. I should play innocent and just sit there and say, "Yah suh, I'z gonna co-op-rate wich you." and act as stupid as possible.)
And he isn't even communicating with me for me to listen.
Yes... I should plea for the shortest time possible, get back out, and fight.
I'm afraid though...
If I don't fight now, when I'm constitutionally correct, if I give in at the first sign of oppression, what rights will I have when I get out in a few years if things continue as they have?
Any? None?
Will I get out of prison and not see any change in my liberties than while I was imprisoned?
This fear makes me want to fight now.
This fear makes me want to challenge the illegal actions of the government that doesn't have the authority to do what they're doing to me.
It would be stupid, and probably close to suicide (or... whatever...) to go to trial.
It would be stupider to claim that a guilty verdict would be siding with the enemy of the American people in a war they don't even know they're fighting.
I love my statistics though - 8.3% of the population uses drugs.
That's 1 in 12 people.
12 people in the jury... one of them is on my side.
With reasonable doubt and these insane claims...
Who knows.
If the plea is for anything over 2 years (my boss is telling me not to accept anything over 6 months) then I'm going to trial despite anything my lawyer says.
If it's reasonable, I'll consider it.
For "Other" drug types, a typical conviction gets you (on average) 37 months - 3 years. The "mean length of imprisonment" (whatever that means) is 51.7 months - 4.75 years.
If I'm an average "other" drug type offender, I'm looking at 3 years.
Again - why plea for 4?
Federal courts have a 97% rate of plea settling before trial. Where's my benefit in doing this?
At trial, they only have a 80% conviction rate.
That's a 1 in 5 chance of acquittal.
That's not even rolling the dice...
That's not even rolling a die.
That's a 1 in 5 chance that I can convince the jury that the laws are not constitutional and that (possibly...) there are no legitimate laws that I am being tried with (see under the legal discussion - Constitutionality of the Drug laws)
It depends on what the plea bargain is...
And it depends on if my lawyer starts to impress me.
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