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I do i convince a judge that i am done being a criminal and want to live a life free of crime?

  • Posted on March 15, 2011 at 10:21 am

I was arrested on a check crime back in July to support my meth addiction. (I forged checks on my ex boyfriends account. We also share a daughter and he takes care of her). I knew that my life had become unmanageable and i had tried everything to break the addiction cycle. I checked into a treatment center and graduated their intensive inpatient program in 8 weeks. now i reside in a half way house. I recently excepted a managing position at a local cellular phone company that works with me so that i can attend my self help groups 5 times a week. I also go to AA/NA meetings regularly. I have been slowly paying off my debt to society. I will be getting my 6 month sobriety chip next month and i am slowly putting my life back together. I do have a public defender that said “You grabbed the bull by the horns and ran with it.” But will a judge see it that way? I am so scared to go to prison. If you were the judge would you think i deserve prison? My sentencing date is the beginning of Dec.

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Is this article a civil or criminal case? if civil what is the tort..?

  • Posted on January 5, 2011 at 3:21 pm

A Mother’s Agony
Schizophrenic, drug addict son put her through ‘hell’ for years, then burned down their home
Doug Ward and Frances Bula, with files from Kelly Sinoski, Vancouver Sun
Published: Wednesday, April 18, 2007
For years Helga Knippelberg’s schizophrenic son demanded that she give him money to feed his drug habit.

She would give him cash or cheques. Often she would borrow money from neighbours. If she refused his request for money, Ronald Knippelberg would regularly threaten to harm her or burn down their large east Vancouver house.

“It’s been horrible. No one can imagine,” Helga Knippelberg, 74, recalled Tuesday. “I’m not even afraid to go to hell because that man has put me through hell.”

Helga Knippelberg, 74, stands Tuesday by what’s left of her home of 51 years after it was burned to the ground Monday night by her son, Ronald, 47.
Ian Smith, Vancouver Sun

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Font: ****On Monday night, fire destroyed their house at 1091 East 21st Ave. Ronald Knippelberg, 47, was arrested by police after he escaped the three-alarm blaze by jumping out a second-storey window. He has been charged with arson and uttering a threat.

“I’ve lost everything, furniture, everything,” said Helga Knippelberg, standing beside the ruins of her home, where she had lived for 51 years, the day after the fire.

The German immigrant was accompanied by her daughter, Doris Fischer and a grandson, and embraced by neighbours and long-time friends — all of whom had watched with horror and fear for many years as Helga Knippelberg struggled with her son’s mental illness and his insatiable appetite for drugs.

She said her son was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 17 after being sent to Riverview psychiatric institute by a judge.

He later became hooked on injection drugs while in prison, said his mother. Anger management therapy never worked and he wouldn’t take medication.

She described her son as someone “who hasn’t a friend in the world.”

Doris Fischer said her brother always refused therapy. “He never felt there was anything wrong with him. It was all of us who were the ones who were off.”

The mother hopes that her son finally gets the help that he never received before.

“I am hoping that somebody realizes that he needs help. He still has longer to live than I do.”

Helga Knippelberg said that on the day of the fire, her son had been berating her for not giving him enough money for drugs. She gave him a cheque, but he wanted some more. He needed another hit of whatever drug he was using that day — crack cocaine or heroin.

Her son, like most drug addicts, can’t accept the word “no,” said Helga Knippelberg.

“When they do drugs, they are in a completely different world. It’s unexplainable. Unexplainable.”

He had already spent about $1,400 on drugs since March 7, when he was released from jail, she added, and had gone beyond the money limit she had set for him.

“He was in a very big need of a fix,” said Helga Knippelberg. He demanded that she borrow some money from a neighbour and she refused. She lay down on the chesterfield and he began walking up and down the stairs, appearing more and more hyper.

His behaviour became so worrisome that she decided to phone the police. He had already broken the downstairs phone so she ran across the street and asked a neighbour to call 911 just after midnight.

The police emergency response team appeared and then 38 firemen in 11 trucks.

Const. Tim Fanning said that a police negotiator tried to talk the “very upset, very distraught” suspect into leaving the house. But he had barricaded the door and the police couldn’t enter.
What is the mens reas and actus reas?

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i wannt a criminal law degree. PLEASE READ?

  • Posted on December 9, 2010 at 3:23 am

ok well i want to go to Columbia Law School after i get my bachleors degree, But the thing is i want to study something that can relate to criminal law that i can study so that way i would have more education which will make my clients more eager for me to be their lawyer. Ive been inspired by my brother to be a criminal lawyer because he went to jail and ever since i found out my family had been lying to me about where he went i wanted to become a lawyer. This is because i think when he got arrested for the first time, it was an incredibly unfair case and consequence that i wont discuss. and when he got arrested for being accused by an ass hole(the police officer) of being drunk while driving, i think its unfair cause my brother was tooken to jail. My reasons are that when George Bush’s daughter was drunk while driving, her case got dismissed. My brother’s case did not get dismissed. When Bill White’s daughter was drunk she wasnt even arrested. MY brother was arrested. I WAS DEPRESSED
oh yeaa. i think i can come up with extremely good points. i fight when i have to so i think i can be a GREAT lawyer.

so wat i want is a suggestion for my bachleors degree.

I enjoy many things so any sugestion would be nice. BTW i also wanna go to
Princeton for my bachleors. so keep tht in mind
ok. this is for dog lover. im NEVER gonna give child molstors rights. and my point is i dont think some people should have a dismissed case just becaause their father has power on the country, city, town or state. and u nvr answered my question. thanx beyatch
i hate you dog lover. your a police officer. thanx to maybe one of your friends, my life is depressing. any you think im stupid. dont you? well guess wat. i think ur an ass whole. and a kiss-up. just like the judge and officer who let Bushs daughter’s case get dismissed. i hate you. and when i grow up, i wantt the world to know how much i hated people like u.
and this is for the fourth person who answered. my grammar is fine. i am on yahoo answers. IM INCREDIBLE AT GRAMMAR. so shutup. im only 13. I dont care about how i talk on the computer.

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A pregnant teenage daughter, a criminal drug-addict son….?

  • Posted on November 2, 2010 at 7:23 am

…and an anti-semitic to boot! Republicans are always talking about how important ‘family values’ are to them. So why are they so in love with Palin, who obviously has no family values whatsoever?

http://gawker.com/5047794/teen-daughter-pregnant-son-on-drugs-whats-next

http://gawker.com/5048188/palin-quoted-antisemitic-author-in-rnc-speech

By the way, Cons, the guy who wrote that story is the same guy who broke the John Edwards scandal.

AND… the Democrats don’t try to tell you how to live in your own home, and aren’t so all about “Family Values” like the republicans… those arguments don’t apply.

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how do you get a free criminal background check on someone?

  • Posted on October 3, 2010 at 7:21 am

I am trying to pull a criminal back ground check on an my husbands x-wife, who has primary custody of their daughter together. She has recently been charged for writing bad checks… We have heard from credible individuals she is now on probation. However, something says this is not her first sight of law breaking trouble, she also has an addiction to methamphetimines, as well as, pills. My husband is wanting to go for full custody and this information if proven, will be very helpful in court.

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