Does anyone here have a criminal record?

If ya do....
How has it affected you or your life?

or if ya know anybody with a criminal record how has it affected them?

also if anyone is a lawyer here or knows anything about law, what types of thing are affected by ones criminal record?

i may have one soon, maybe not, depending on what i decide...

i wanna learn from your mistakes.... i sure have learned from mine.

 

whats the decision you have to make?

arresst record yes..criminal nope

fbi..probly

 

well I'm in a pre-trial diversionary program, drug court, in which, if i complete a year of, my charges will be dropped.

It is a very tough program which.... for a lack of better words, it's ruining my life. Ive been in the program for about 1.5 months now, and I'm going crazy, its changing me, for the worse.

as of now i would rather just go to trial, plead guilty and accept my sentence, which will probably be community service, fines, and probation. but i will also have a criminal record....

 

hmm isee.. how exactly is it ruining your life?
&..if u screw anything up in the future, wouldnt a record mean possible harsher treatment..& if the program or whatever it is makes it like the offence never happened, wouldnt that be better?
but how exactly is it changing you..who you are?

 

well it basically runs my life.

Monday-group therapy

tuesday-drugtest.... Ive been clean for 1.5 months. i haven been using at all, or been around anyone who uses, but I'm still coming up hazy in the tests. if i fail i get 24 to 72 hours in JAIL. which is a ridiculous consequence. every time i see my PO he goes "you fuckin round with weed again, i told you whats gonna happen".... i don't know what to do! I'm not using!!! but its a no tolerance program.
Tuesday night- NA meeting

Wednesday-meeting with the judge, reviewed by the judge.

Thursday-individual therapy meeting+drug test

Friday-another drug-test

through out all this I'm required to keep a 40 hour a week job. in which I'm still trying to get. if i don't have one in a week i will be given a job my PO says i will hate, for minimum wage.

if i miss any meeting on any day of the week i will get 24 hours in jail or 30 hours community Severus to serve on top of everything else, including the job.

not to mention on any given day of the week i could be given a random drug-test.

i hate having to force my body to pee at a certain time each day, its a 4 hour process to get my body ready, in which i have to use my 3rd or 4th pee of the day.

its very overwhelming, it may not look like much written here, but trust me i have no freedom.

i have always been a very happy person. a person who could brighten a room.
i am VERY depressed now.
i had to give up all my friends, i now only have ONE friend, which i see maybe once a week.
every week i spend hundreds on this program, and i already spent 3000 so far on my lawyer.
i had to sell my VW bus to pay for this shit.

there is much more but i think you got the gist of it....

 

That sucks man I feel for you, If you really want the criminal charges dropped, do what you have to do man.

 

im sorry. that sucks buddy.

 

I have had a few run-ins with the law. I was almost charged with grand larsony for stealing $1000 worth of tickets to a waterpark and selling them for 1/2 price. I have a shoplifting charge, I was caught with weapons and drugs at school on multiple occasions. The only thing I was actually charged with was the shoplifting charge and that has been stricken from my record because i took a class and payed a fine and did community service. Everything else, charges were never filed, because everyone involved said that I was a good kid and I deserve a break. I have been lucky.

 

i do....
but in a way, id rather save myself from deep depression then have my charges dropped.

i mean..... im usually the happeyest person, with a constant smile.

now i NEVER leave the house, and am always pissed off or sad or just emotionless....

its so sad to say that the only time im happy is when im on the forums... which is like 6-8 hours a day....

 

wow thats some lucky shit! good for you man!

i got charged with possession of marijuana, paraphernalia, and weapons on school grounds.... they searched my car....

anyway, the weapons charges where droped.... just to be clear its not like i had a gun.... i had an ax in my car with my camping equipment(tent, sleeping bag, lantern, grill, etc.)

 

maybe u could request instead to voluntarily help out with a group like outward bound or somethning i bet the judge would go for that
i volunteered to help with philly youth at risk many years ago..& it was only a 10 day course but was super intence & rewarding
i'm not saying vounteer tobe in the course since theyre geared more towards gangs & more at risk teens, but if u did like i did & volunteer to do like security or whatever, the judge may allow something like that instead of the pressent crap your doing...its only like 10 days...and will make u feel good about yourself intead of depressed

just something to concider discussing with the judge when u see him/her next

 

Couple unpaid tickets for MVR. Not a criminal record though. And one of my best friends fathers a criminal defense attorney. I feel like I could get away with a lot...


And I will.

 

yes, lotsa entries. always for drugs or alcohol

 

No criminal record here...been on the road between 1969-1976..
picked up by French police for trespassing public property..
all I did was sleeping in a barn..to keep myself from the cold..
december near Macon..freezing cold..police were not very nice..
they made a fool out of me in the police station..
my whole rucksack turned down..and stripped naked..
looking for drugs??? I was on the way to Marrakesh(Morocco)
never made it..refused on Morrocco border for long hair..
continued to West Africa instead..for 5 months...ahah...
best trip of my life..went down to Abidjan(Ivory Coast)
and never ANY criminal offense..I'm not a saint either:X :X

Tiger

 

No criminal record...not even a traffic ticket....Ive been verry good !!

 

I know plenty of people with criminal records and it sucks .....years and years later.

Especially drug charges. My friend is a PO and screwed herself over with a minor assault charge. She beat the breaks of this girl that really deserved it.(The chick slept with her husband and said 'Fuck your dead bitch sister' a month after my friends sister died) But now, years later, she has to worry about it every time she tries to get a job. And I know plenty of guys that have records that are automatically excluded for good jobs not to mention that they can't ever get financial aid. The shit just follows you around for so long. I'd do all I could to avoid it if I was you. You might have better luck with having a record than people I know, being a white guy, but I still say try to hang in.

 

I am awaiting trial for being involved in an accident. They are trying to charge me with reckless homicide, hit and run, and failure to perform driver duites, whatever the fuck that means. I cant go into details because I could ruin my chances of getting a fair trial. But what happened was not my fault, it was just a bad reaction that I should have handeld better. So yea, just had a baby, and was on my way to getting married, now I could be spending a nice little vacation in jail in South Carolina for basically murder charges. Other than that, I have a very small record, once got caught with a gram of weed, and I actually got a DUI for riding a bicycle after taking a few shots. And I still wake up every day and go to work, take care of my son, and I never complain nor do I let the smile leave my face

 

Ah a conditional dismissal.

I would check to see if your juvenile records are sealed on something like this, ask your probation officer or the attorney that was appointed to you they will know exactly how or if this can affect your record in the future, especially when filling out job apps.

as an adult, you can expunge things and it will be off of your record, but you cant do a DUI or a sex crime (in california at least), anyways, if someone is applying for a federal gvt job, even though its expunged, it will more than likely show up. they dont disappear they just show dismissed.

Oh, and I have never even had a traffic ticket.

 

i have about 7 unpaid parking tickets in the city of chicago.
:X that's about it...
i've gotten really close to getting arrested for weed and the like.
they just took the stuff though and told me to stop. haha.

 

damn, you sound like my little brother marc. although, he has parking tickets not in chicago, but in a college town here in kansas..... my dad is so pissed at him, for not paying his parking tickets, and having creditors call........