Girlfriend in jail for reckless endangerment with knife, felony?

Question

long story short, me and my gf got into a heated arguement. i start smashing my **** and she gets scared so she holds a knife by her side keeping her distance. me going crazy appoached her, she never raised it. i jus went crazy and said u think im scared of knives and grabbed it from her causing it to slice me. once i had the knife i walked out of the house. she called the cops on me and said that she had an arguement with me and i was walking around outside with a knife. after the cops had stopped me i gave them the story they looked at my cut and left. i stayed out for the night that night until work the next morning. when i was at work i was approached my an officer stating my gf is in jail on reckless endangerment felony charge with a knife and is being held on $2000 cash bail. she has probable cause hearing in a few days. all this is really upsetting me cause shes sitting in jail cuz she got scared of going crazy and my stupid careless anger fit got me cut. wait theres more

Answer 1

It sounds like you both have anger problems. Your girlfriend sounds like she has a criminal record and will be doing a few years in the slammer. Maybe it is time for you to break up with her and move on with your life.

Answer 2

they are going make it has hard on her as they can i hope she is not on probation and has representation at the hearing and you are there to help her if she keeps pissing them off they will lie or anything eles to get her they are human to i know from experiences

Answer 3

Get an attorney, Stop talking to the Police, and do not cooperate with their prosecution.  that is number 1.  The attorney must defend you and your GF.  if you want her out of this situation.  A letter must be mailed to the DA telling the story of what is going to be told in court. And that will be done at the arraignment.  Now, you must say that she picked up the knife, and it was becasue she was scared of you. At that time you saw it as a threat and freaked out and grabbed it from her and cut yourself.  thats how the wound occurred, and that it was self inflicted, not assault.  She was in defensive mode.

Now the drawbacks to this is that the court may prosecute you in the case instead of her. However you would mainly get off with anger management classes, which both of you really need. And possibly probation.  However, i would not allow them to prosecute under Domestic Violence Type Charges, becuase you will never be able to own a gun again for the rest of your life.

Answer 4

She needs to bail out as fast as possible. Problems like this don't turn out favorably for someone that is stuck in jail. The cards are stacked against her. You are both probably going to end up going to Anger Management! But she can't get that kind of a deal sitting in jail. Do whatever you can to post a bond. Sometimes bondsmen will take 5% and then let you make payments on the remaining 5%.

Good Luck~

Answer 5

Never ever plead guilty at arraignment, ask for a PD and get a plea deal. If she plead guilty at arraignment she will not know what the sentence will be, until she enter a plea of guilty.

I don't care if its for a drunk in public or a serious matter never plead guilty at arraignment, always enter a NOT GUILTY at the initial stage.... Continue to research and if the evidence supports this statement 10 this way... She needs to bail out before arraignment.

Best of Luck...