Washington Township, Gloucester County, NJ Criminal Defense Law Firms & Lawyers

There are several charges that quickly come to mind, including Uttering, fraud and several others. The consequences range from dismissal to jail time depending on your previous criminal history, whether or not you have ever served jail time, your willingness to get into counseling/detox/in-patient treatment, etc. There are so many different things that could happen it really would be impossible to go through all the possibilities. The one certainty is that you need to get good legal representation. A good lawyer should be able to minimize the legal consequences for you and advise you on how to best proceed to achieve that position. If you haven't already hired legal counsel, do so as soon as possible. I would get you into treatment now, early in the process and start compiling a record of successful things for you to accomplish to get your life in order and your case behind you.

The criminal judge sets the sentence based upon a multitude of factors which are established by the legislature and prior case law. For example, the judge must start with the presumption of jail if there is a Second Degree crime and must start the consideration at seven years. The judge finds aggravating and mitigating factors which add or subtract from the sentence. Ed Dimon

Not jail, but you could do some time in juvenile hall. The fact that you are posting this online suggests that you are not in custody, which is probably a good sign.