attorney??

Question

hi im 15 years old and my moms blaming me for the break in of our house and thinks i did it!! and i got arrested and ive gotten into physical fights with her that she started and lied to the cops and said i was crazy and began hitting her court is coming up and they said i could get an attorny but my mom said there useless what does the attorny do and should i get one????

Answer 1

You need to ask the court to appoint you an attorney and should certainly not take advice from your mother who is the prosecuting witness in your case. The court will appoint one for you regardless of whether your mother likes it or not. Richard is absolutely correct. . .do not listen to K R. This is a criminal prosecution, not an argument between you and your parents. The state is pursuing the charges. You need counsel and are absolutely entitled to it.

Answer 2

Of course you need an attorney, and you have an absolute right to one.

If you can't afford to pay for your own - and at 15 I assume you can't - then you ask the court for a court appointed attorney, and one will be appointed.

In most States a parents income is not taken into account in determining if a minor qualifies for court appointed counsel. If your State is different, the court WILL require your parents, if they have the money, to pay for a lawyer for you.

The charges you are facing are felonies, and if convicted you will almost certainly go to juvenile hall or whatever your State calls it.

To KR....... Your advice is HORRIBLY WRONG! The poster is not "going up against his parents".

He was arrested by the police and is therefore being charged by the State. If convicted he gets a felony criminal record that will haunt him for the rest of his life, plus he gets to finish High School in juvie instead of a regualr school.

You know how many employers will take a chance on a new hire who, instead of a high school diploma, has a GED from Juvie?

Richard

Answer 3

15 year old child does NOT need an attorney to go up against her own parents. The judge will simply decide the case based on facts not opinions. If he/she feels you are in the wrong, they will strongly lecture you and maybe place you on probabtion at the most... No attorney will or can change that.. Your age plays a huge factor in this as you are still a minor and under your parents care... I don't understand why kids today just seem to think that the law can protect them from normal parental decisions... The LAW is your PARENTS until you turn 18 and are out on your own and able to supplying for yourself and then and only then are you entittled to make the laws which YOU choose to live under. Until then... your parents ARE THE LAW and what ever YOU feel about those rules, just doesn't matter ( I know that sounds cold but thats just the truth).. They are responsible for you and with that responsiblity goes parental laws.

Short and simple.. You are not old enough or responsible enough to decide the rules you live under. Someday when you are more mature you will understand when your 15 year old feels they are old enough to make their own rules.

If your parents are actually hitting you , you do have the right to call the police and have them answer to those charges. But the police will not over turn your parents disapline as long as it is not abusive. And abusive does NOT mean saying no to doing whatever you want, it only covers unneccessary abuse... In most cases a child will lose that too as a parent has the right to disapline their child as long as it is not in an overly abusive manner..

To answer the other people who say the state is against you, Tell me what state or police dept will arrest a MINOR for breaking into their OWN home? There is absolutely no crime in breaking into your own home. And you want to call that a FELONY? You have to read past the charges stated by a 15 year old and see there is NO CRIME that can be charged for BREAKING INTO YOUR OWN HOME.. NO such a charge, and can't be convicted of a charge that doesn't exist! This is simple.. mommy said no she reacted, lost HER temper and was charged with disorderly conduct.. WOW people are so fast to jump on a 15 year olds interpretation of parental disapline. And fast to react such as most of the liberal schools and teaching children to sue parents for trying to raise a responsible adult.. Why do you think things have gotten out of hand with the kids raising hell on the streets.. Parents can't displine their children when their children want to feel like they have a legal course to do what they want when they want to do it.. AGAIN i state.. IF it ABUSE thats a whole different story, but ABUSE is not saying no and teaching a child simple respect for rules.

It's almost laughable that you people think she should get an attorney and fight her mother.. What probably happened is that she had a curfew, when she didn't show up on time the door was locked, so the 15 year old girl broke in, was approached by her mother and lost her temper. Her mother called the cops and now you people want to turn this thing into a major court issue of child rights to break a curfew! Come on.. open your eyes and don't blindly take a CHILDS side because you feel a parent has no rights to set the rules. They have every right in the world...

Answer 4

Absolutely. You need an attorney.

Being in the situation yourself, you are to filled with rambling thoughts and emotions to make any cohesive or coherent arguments.

Also, attorneys are very trained at what they do (or at least I hope so).

Do yourself a favor and get an attorney.

Answer 5

yes you should get one because you are onthe fast track to juvenile prison, and the last stop before that is court, where your attorney will be able to do what is necessary to both keep you out of prison and get your life back on track

Answer 6

You need an attorney and a counselor, quickly.