Richard

A suggestion. In lieu of giving money, offer to take him and his wife
out for dinner to get briefed on the case.

He should be able to accept that with no problem.

Big John
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On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:53:13 -0700, Richard Riley
wrote:

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:12:56 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote:

Richard Riley wrote:
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 10:43:49 -0700, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

Um ... simple burglary where there was no human hurt, no prior record, local
kids, most of the stuff recovered, confessed and saved the state the time
and trouble of prosecuting and proving ...

My best guess is a felony conviction with no more than a year (probably six
months) in the county pokey with another 5 years of probation.

Not that that is right or wrong, just a guess. Let's see how close I am.

You'er *probably* right, but in my neck of So. Cal the DA doubles down
when a burglar takes guns. State Pen. and more than a year in
custody, even for a first offense. (I see him at the local shooting
range from time to time.)

Since when does the DA establish the sentence? In most states the judge
does that.

The DA effectively establishes the sentence whenever it's a plea
bargain. The judge signs off on it - and they've been known to turn
down a deal on rare occasion. But the DA has remarkable power in our
system.