She went to the bar for Halloween and she saw a guy she thought was hot who was dressed up as a police officer. She was drunk so she went over to him and grabbed his butt and was like "hey I've been a bad girl." and was telling him to use the hand cuffs on her among a lot of other vulger sexual comments. Turned out the guy wasn't in costume. The police officer decided to charge her. I don't know exactly what the charge is but she's going to court this coming week. All she has to go on is she was REALLY drunk and she thought the officer was just some guy dressed up.
I think the whole thing is kinda funny and I keep telling her that the courts and police officer will probably drop the charges considering it was halloween and all and she didn't intend to harm him. Any ideas on what will happen to her?
2007-11-03 10:25:44 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
If this was a guy who did this to a female officer, I promise that just looking embarrassed and apologizing would not be enough.
What your friend did is a type of sexual assault, probably a misdemeanor but possibly a felony if she kept it up after she was instructed to stop. If she's lucky, she'll be allowed to plead to drunk and disorderly conduct and if she was too drunk to keep control of her own behavior, then she needs to not drink.
She'll want a lawyer in court with her.
And, by the way, you would NOT think "the whole thing is kinda funny " if some drunk dude grabbed your butt and made crude sexual statements- you'd be mad as hell.
2007-11-03 10:43:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
convinced. Technically, a cop can arrest someone and record expenditures in spite of the actuality that if the sufferer would not pick them pressed. at the same time as a regulation is broken the offense is really seen to be adversarial to the state, and a criminal offense sufferer is legally seen to be no longer something more advantageous than a witness and does no longer have the authority to drop a case. yet as a lifelike count number, the cops in a lot of cases enable human beings bypass if the sufferer would not pick to press expenditures adversarial to them, as it is in a lot of cases seen more advantageous straightforward and a case is way harder to make adversarial to a wrongdoer with out the sufferer's cooperation besides.
2016-10-23 08:26:23 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being really really drunk is no defense. I certainly think the officer over-reacted, but if the charge is public intoxication or lewd and lascivious behavior, she's sounds guilty to me.
2007-11-03 10:47:56 · answer #3 · answered by Jay 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Charge: Public Drunkenness... ask Ron "Tater Salad" White...
2007-11-03 10:30:10 · answer #4 · answered by Steve S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really depends on the judge and officer, but if she comes off very embarrassed and apologetic and maybe, faces him in court and apologizes for her actions he will see she is sincerely sorry. Sometimes people just want a sincere apology. If she does this and he still presses charges then he is just a jerk.
2007-11-03 10:33:16 · answer #5 · answered by emily e 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
She would know what is going to happen to her if she GOT A LAWYER. She NEEDS A LAWYER for this one. She also needs to stop sexually assaulting people when she's drunk!
2007-11-03 10:46:24 · answer #6 · answered by Dina K 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
she will most likely get a small fine, probably. being intoxicated in public IS a crime, so the officer was just doing his job.
2007-11-03 18:34:05 · answer #7 · answered by Hall + Oates 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
depends on what your friend was charged with,.....if it was drunk in public, well, she might not stand a chance,.....
2007-11-03 10:34:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋