can a forgery felony charged case be dropped at all?
2007-04-05 08:45:10 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
situation: so-called friend asked to cash check for him, had check in my name, now i'm charged with a felony charge.. i did not know he was setting me up and did not know he was using me at all. i cannot believe how incredibly naive i was.
2007-04-05 08:53:22 · update #1
In Pennsylvania, forgery is a second degree felony. 18 C.P.S. section 4101.
A person is guilty of forgery if, with intent to defraud or injure anyone, or with knowledge that he is facilitating a fraud or injury to be perpetrated by anyone, the actor:
1. alters any writing of another without his authority;
2. makes, completes, executes, authenticates, issues or transfers any writing so that it purports to be the act of another who did not authorize that act, or to have been executed at a time or place or in a numbered sequence other than was in fact the case, or to be a copy of an original when no such original existed; or
3. utters any writing which he knows to be forged in a manner specified in paragraphs (1) or (2) of this subsection.
A forgery charge can be dropped by either the police or the district attorney. If you did not forge somebody's name, or if somebody else has done the crime, you should not be prosecuted.
Talk to a lawyer or public defender. If the cops have the facts straight, you will not be prosecuted.
2007-04-05 09:29:52 · answer #1 · answered by Mark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The prosecutor decides whether to proceed on a case or not and has absolute discretion in doing so in most states (absent an improper motive). They can drop the case but usually felony cases are reviewed before being charged so you may have to go to trial if you believe that you are innocent.
2007-04-05 08:58:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the states that I am licensed to practice law, forgery is a felony. I cannot imagine that any state would classify forgery as a misdemeanor, but one never knows.
2016-05-17 23:57:39 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Just have the person who's name was forged, admit that he signed the document. The case will have to be dropped.
2007-04-05 08:49:09 · answer #4 · answered by Homeschool produces winners 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The District Attorney can decide not to go ahead with the case.
So the answer is yes.
2007-04-05 08:51:12 · answer #5 · answered by Jack 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-04-11 03:42:11 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋