Brock, TX Criminal Defense Law Firms & Lawyers

Your friend is looking at a felony that cannot be reduced to a misdemeanor and potentially up to 4 years in custody. How much time they will actually do depends on a lot of factors like 'what is their prior record (if any)?', 'what was the substance?', 'how much?', 'how strong is the case against them?' and 'what can their attorney work out?'. Every case is unique but the bottom line is that he needs a good criminal defense attorney, one who routinely practices in the court where his case is pending.

Officers can sit in a place that is open to the public. Moreover, if they have a warrant, they can wait until you return and make a strategic decision on when to execute the warrant. (You assert that they parked from spot to spot - how do you know this? Were you watching them watch you? If so, why would you have weed with you?) If the officers claim they observed a drug deal, then they may have been able to get a warrant (just depends on all the facts they included.) If they lied, then you will have to show that - or at least that they have no credibility. This may be able to be done by obtaining the officers' internal affairs records (which your lawyer will have to do.) The same goes with the drugs that you claim were planted. I will say that it is difficult to believe that you had one drug related incident 5 years ago and that the police have nothing better to do but to sit around for hours waiting on you and then to spend time planting drugs on you for prosecution. My guess is that you are not giving nearly all the facts in your presentation.