Recent felony conviction

You hit the nail on the head MedicineMan. If as he claims wasn't his then he should have been able to beat it. It tells me that there is more to the story then what he is telling..Its always someone else's fault, heck if this was me I would have fought it until the very end.

 

I have a felony from 15 years ago when I was 18. There are still companies I can't get on with but most of them I can because it has been so long and it wasn't drugs. I don't care if you are innocent or guilty it happened you were convicted now you have to suck it up and make sure it doesn't happen again.
One day down the road you will be able to get a driving job, maybe.
Until then you do what it takes even if that means not driving a truck.
I don't like the people saying all they were saying in other posts because one they don't know you and they don't know the whole situation. It sounds like also they have never made any mistakes but guess what that is life we make mistakes but we should learn from them and make sure it never happens again.
You are going to have to find a small company or maybe even something like an industrial cleaning company driving a vacuum truck. Other than that that felony is going to have to be at least 5 years old but I think it is going to take more like ten years.

 

What is there to understand? If your convicted of a felony,and you believe it wasn't your fault, then he should have fought harder then he did.. I bet the cops had more then enough evidence to convict, or it never would have went to court period.. Or he has a prior, that he won't admit. Or did he try to hide the conviction, and it was found out by the potential company, when doing a back ground check.It is easy to believe some one's story especially when you don't know them or their prior run ins with the law. If I had a bridge to now where and told you it was the best piece of real estate you could buy would you buy it? I have made mistakes but not that big of a mistake..

 

Ok fight harder and beat the system whatever.
I will say though I myself will not get into the vehicle with someone if I know they have drugs. If he got into the car knowing there was something illegal in the car he is guilty.
I agree it doesn't sound right but let me tell you and I speak from experience if the police want to make sure you get convicted they will do everything in their power to make sure that happens.
I was guilty of my felony I plead guilty but let me tell you the police had some questionable evidence. I know how it works. That being said I would like to hear the whole true story of his arrest and conviction.
I am not going to say he is lying though because I know how the system works, sometimes innocent people are found guilty. You know what it really doesn't matter now does it. He was convicted life sucks sometimes you suck it up and move on.

 

I do have a question why was an attempt to possess because there was possession because it was in the car? You may be right something doesn't sound right.

 

Remmeber this for every good cop you have there is 10 that are bad.. I do believe that some cops are willing to trun something small into something much bigger. But in this case something just smell sour and that is the story..

 

But if it did not belong long to you then you should have put up a bigger defense, or your lawyer was incompetent, and should have been "FIRED"

 

But you were charged with attempt to possess not possession that is where I am having a problem understanding. You guys being in the car with the substance under the seat you were already in possession. You were not attempting to possess you were already in possession. I also can't see how it was just a little or I have to assume that it wasn't pot. That is strange but like I said it doesn't matter you are screwed at getting a good driving job, for at least 5 maybe ten years.

 

See this is why people shouldn't be so quick to judge, and why we make lousy juries, and there is SO much incredible pressure from risk and money to take a plea to get it over with.

If we KNEW that 3 out of 4 people in that car were innocent, yet all 4 got charged and now have records, we would think that outcome just doesn't seem right, so therefore there must be more to it.

However, what REALLY happens is they will sit you in a room and tell you you were charged with POSESSION, not OWNERSHIP. So at the end of the day, it really doesn't matter that it wasn't yours because they didn't accuse you of that in the first place.

So yeah, the system is messed up and more of us should be willing to hear a guy out or give him "another" chance... assuming he ever messed up in the first place to even need one.

Believe it or not we don't have the highest population of prisoners because we have the highest crime. We just have the highest prosecution rate of any country's citizens. (the hand-chopping countries are a serious minority, please spare the references).