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Hire a good Lawyer

posted 12 years ago by Airjordan2288
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That was the first mistake he made. I know its only a movie but still . He should have sold everything he had including the house up front to get a good defense attorney. Going with a Public Defender was an epic fail. I know he probably thought he would just do his little stretch of time in gen pop and never thought he would get caught up in circumstances to end up in the SHU at San Quentin but still. 5 days in jail is way to long let alone the 3 years he was looking at.

He wasn't poor. He had a business and house that he could have used. Then again if he had done those things there wouldn't have been a great movie.

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[–] AwaixJvd 12 years ago

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[–] Madeline-ferraro 12 years ago

I agree , no one except the poorest of the poor with no family support uses a public defender. That was unrealistic and in real life would not happen because he had assets and would not qualify for the free lawyer.

[–] joekill162 12 years ago

Yep the reason why he got F was because he did not sell everything he owned and got the best lawyer money can buy, its better to be homeless and free than living in a prison cell, and living in california a state that has and does arrest people for shooting an intruders that enter their home.

[–] AdvanceIstheMan 11 years ago

The issue seemed to be that he didn't want to wait all that time to go to trial and then possibly lose and receive a much harsher sentence. Going through the trial probably would have taken the same amount of time he received by accepting the plea. Either way with the bail being so high he was stuck in there.

If he decided to fight it then I'm sure he would have gotten a better attorney.

[–] kameljoe21-1 11 years ago

Most of you people are idiots

one is that it takes time to sell a house and most likly he still owes money on it

2 even most people well off making 60k a year dont have 50k or more to drop on a lawyer, they cost money and i know this to be true

3 this happen to a lot of people simple crime get time
happens to a lot of people

80 percent of people take plea bargins as thats how the system works
very few people go trial due to the fact that a plea bargin is the fastest and easyest option

would you risk taking 15 to life or 3 yrs
now i can tell you that 15 to life does not mean you get out in 15 yrs
in 15 years you will get a hearing and they all ways tell you see you next year
i know over 100 lifer who have been in for more than 20 years and it takes around 10 years after a min before you get a percent of a chance to get out

[–] Airjordan2288 10 years ago

Wade was a white family man with a business who lived in Simi Valley. He would have gotten a sympathetic jury no problem, especially since the robber was latino (If the guys who beat Rodney King could get off with a Simi Valley jury, no way would Wade have done any prison time)

My brother was involved in a bar fight not too long ago and was looking at 2 years for an aggravated assault charge (he used a pool cue to defend himself, cracked one of the guys in the head with it). the public defender told him to plead out to serve 6 months. We got him a good lawyer and he got probation instead. A good lawyer can work wonders. A public defender sees you as just a number on the assembly line and will do anything to get you to plead your case down to a lesser charge so they can get your case off their books. Go with a hired lawyer every time no matter what the cost.

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[–] rocinante-421-313928 9 years ago

No. The first mistake he made was chasing a guy out of his house and hit him in the head with a baseball bat.

The second mistake was talking to the police instead of asking for a lawyer. When you claim self-defense you're changing the burden of proof and you're no longer innocent until proven guilty. It's better to let a lawyer decide if doing that is the best for you.

Once he made those mistakes, hiring a lawyer or going with the public defender wouldn't make a difference, because his best course of action would be to take the plea deal anyway.

The third mistake was trying to figure out how prison works after he got there. If you're going to prison and you have no idea how things work, figure it out.