your girlfriend pleads guilty to illegally obtaining credit card.It came from you is it too late.What to do?
Monday, January 26th, 2009 at
7:31 am
llcool g. asked:
Girlfriend accidently picks up a rewards card (debit) with a one time balance $25 from our desk where she was purchasing music online.Later that evening gets pull over by police as a passenger she was asked for I.D.the card was found on her,qnd unfortunatly on parole for forgery. The card becomes a 3rd degree felony.You obtained the card through the mail the address on the envelope was to you, however the rewards card inside was not. It was a mistake it was made out to someone else.Girlfriend goes to back to prison on violation. Pleads guility but hasnt been sentenced yet. How can you stop this,girlfriend could get up to 5 yrs in prison for this. Who has the power to overturn this injustice.
Girlfriend accidently picks up a rewards card (debit) with a one time balance $25 from our desk where she was purchasing music online.Later that evening gets pull over by police as a passenger she was asked for I.D.the card was found on her,qnd unfortunatly on parole for forgery. The card becomes a 3rd degree felony.You obtained the card through the mail the address on the envelope was to you, however the rewards card inside was not. It was a mistake it was made out to someone else.Girlfriend goes to back to prison on violation. Pleads guility but hasnt been sentenced yet. How can you stop this,girlfriend could get up to 5 yrs in prison for this. Who has the power to overturn this injustice.
Tagged with: 3rd Degree Felony • Girlfriend • Injustice
Filed under: Credit
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It’s too late to stop it now. There are several junctures where it could have been stopped, but now is not one of them:
1) She shouldn’t have plead guilty in the first place, considering the circumstances you described.
2) She shouldn’t have “accidentally” picked up the card from your desk. A person on parole has to be acutely aware of their rights, responsibilities and restrictions, and abide by them to the letter.
3) If you received a rewards card made out to someone else, it was your responsibility to notify the issuer and invalidate (i.e. destroy) the card, to prevent misuse.
All you can do is throw yourself at the mercy of the court and hope you get a lenient judge. Sorry, if you do the crime, you should be prepared to do the time.
OK, let’s get this straight. She’s on parole for forgery, she “accidentally” picks up a card that’s not hers, the card was “accidentally” made out to the wrong person, she “somehow” happened to get ID’ed when a friend “got pulled over”, and the cop just happened to find an illegal card on her?
Well, the good thing is that she can’t go to jail without a trial. The bad thing is that no one will ever believe a ridiculous story like that. Come on. Do you really expect anyone to believe that? People that are on probation for forgery know that they shouldn’t touch things that aren’t theirs. Cops just don’t happen to pull people over for no reason, and when they do they don’t ID passengers for no reason, and when they do they don’t search for forged cards….UNLESS THERE’S A REASON.
Sounds to me like someone got caught…again. And regarding your question about “who has the power to overturn this injustice”…I’d say the girlfriend has the power to overturn it. As soon as she gets out of jail for being a theif she’ll have all the time in the world to straighten out
The elements of the offense should be: “without the effective consent of the owner” …so if YOU were the issuee of the card, you can allways go and drop the charges.(you being the victim) Just fill out a non-prosecution affidavit .
Geez, that’s a tough one, pal.
Carrying the card that doesn’t belong to her suggests she had intent to use it.
The card itself is the property of the company that issued it, and is intended to only be used by the person whose name is on the card.
It sounds like she didn’t obtain the card “illegally”, but by an error of the card company. Her best bet is to contact the card company, let them know they sent her the wrong card, let them know she hadn’t used it, hadn’t tried to use it, wasn’t going to use it, and because it was sitting on her desk with her other cards, she accidentally picked it up with her things. She wants her card sent as soon as possible and wants to know what to do with the other person’s card they sent to her. Then she needs to hear it from a supervisor(whatever the card company wants her to do regarding the confusion), get his name & number, and ask if this sort of thing has happened before.
If she can get the card company to testify that this kind of thing happens sometimes, or that they believe they may have sent her the wrong card and that she never tried to use it, then that could help out a lot with her case.
Good luck.
9 out of 10 dentists recommend you shouldn’t believe everything your girlfriend is telling you.
Your story is either a series of huge and unfortunate coincidences, or more likely your g/f belongs in prison.