The prosecutor can offer anything they want. A good defense attorney will negotiate with the prosecutor in order to get the case dismissed, charges...

Your question conflates “incompetence” with “insanity”, used in the legal context. Competence to stand trial is evaluated at the time of trial, if...

Your friend has had five DWIs and is out on parole, then gets pulled over and blows a 0.138. There are arguments that can be made to hopefully have...

Yes, your friend is being held because law enforcement has a reasonable suspicion that he committed or was otherwise involved in the crime. There...

As part of your child custody proceedings, you/your attorney may petition the court to order a psychiatric evaluation or other child custody...

This is called “charge stacking”. Criminal law is so encompassing that, often, a single “criminal episode” can result in multiple crimes. So, it...

Based on just the bit that you have written, there are a lot of elements at play in this case. The question of what punishment will be offered by a...

Whether you serve jail time is dependent on many factors, but it’s certainly helpful that you don’t have a pre-existing criminal record. If you...

You sorely need a criminal defense attorney. If your case has already gotten to the point of negotiating plea deals, you are in an extremely...

Your question is unclear but the part I think I understand is that though you “didn’t have anything to do with it” you were going to take a plea...