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The obvious answer is for you to contact whoever is paying the benefits, providing them a copy of your court appointment powers, and get them directed to you, and take action to recover them from whoever improperly received and used them. If you don't know how to do all the court proceedings necessary, then hire an attorney who does.

Search warrant issues can only be handled properly by an experienced criminal defense attorney. There is nothing that you can do, other than to hire one or get a public defender. The non-lawyer will never prevail on these issues. The DA will never concede to a non-lawyer and they may not even concede to the best lawyer in the world. If there was no warrant, it is unlikely that this search will be upheld by the courts. If the search is bad, all the evidence should be suppressed and the case dismissed. I do not think it is common, but police do search houses without warrants or any other permission from time to time. In these situations, the evidence is suppressed. I had all the evidence suppressed on a MJ grow case last year for lack of warrant. I would find it unlikely that SWAT would make a mistake like this. It is a really big operation and costly. I doubt they would go through that trouble without a warrant. But the police often surprise me, so do the DAs. Get an experienced criminal defense attorney. Do not talk to anyone else. Guns and drugs equal a very large minimum sentence. By the way, they record all inmate conversations at the jail except with attorney, so do not discuss the facts at all. Tell your father the same. They can get an interpreter for any language and any slang.

It depends on what type of damage was done. If she just hit another car, it's a low level misdemeanor punishable by up to 90 days in jail, $100 in fines, and license sanctions. If she caused injury to another person that would be a one-year misdemeanor with fines up to $1,000 and license sanctions. Even though it's a misdemeanor, it's still a serious matter with a lot at stake so I would recommend retaining a lawyer to represent your daughter. At least have an attorney review the police report before she agrees to plead to anything. There may be errors or problems with the case that could get the matter reduced or dismissed. If she has no priors, she is more than likely looking at probation, but jail is still a possibility.