I was falsely accused of assault by a mentally unstable in law a few months ago. After being taken to jail and let out, i immediately went to the well known atty's office. Once in the interview, i was told of the maximum sentence only, as well as that my case would require their best defense lawyer. I was kinda puzzled at first as i didn't do anything wrong, but asked for the price anyway... 8000 bucks! I said no and when i went to leave i had forgotten that the first interviewer had taken my id to make a copy. As i went to ask for it back he ran out of the office to go get a colleague. The new guy came in and tried to sell me at 6 grand. Which i also declined. I asked for my id back he said no problem and went to get it. Another new guy, no id, repeat, repeat. The last one finally tells me "look i'm doing a 250000 murder case rite now. I don't want to see you go to jail (for something i didn't even do remember) for 6000.. Can you do 5? At this point i was PISSED off. And demanded they return my id. Which was then brought in by the pushy initial interviewer (who wasn't even an atty, more like the world's most annoying car salesman) and he handed it to me asking i was sure several times...
Anyway, i went to court last week, trusting the system, and the case was dismissed on the account of the accuser not showing up and me having had filed a restraining order on them. The public defender says they get a lot of these and if the complaintent doesn't show up then the charges are dropped. Now i'm SURE the atty's at phillips and associates knew this yet still tried to screw me out of 8000. Then the sob story about how they're on my side. Blah blah. Con artists who could've just asked me first thing if the complaintant was going to be there (i told them it was a false accusation right off the bat)..instead they threw the max sentence scare tactic in w / a mix of high balling and pressure sales... Nice
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