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Pre-sentencing

Interview with Will

JM: Tell us about the pre-sentencing process:
Will: I was indicted while I was incarcerated in NJ. I had to sign an interstate agreement in order to be transferred from prison in NJ to Orange County NY on related charges. I was given a public defender, who tried to convince me to take a 10 year sentence consecutive to my 5 year sentence in NJ. The charges in NJ and NY were related. My parents got me a lawyer and I ended up getting 5 years concurrent with my sentence in NJ. Before I was sentenced I was challenging the way I was presented with my indictment, and I may have been able to get my charges thrown out due to mishandling and statutes, etc. But they gave me a counter-offer at my hearing of 8 years concurrent and my attorney told me that I could probably get it down to 5 at my sentencing, etc.

JM: Did you have police stop by your house for questioning? If not please give us details on how you came to be arrested.
Will: No. I was arrested in NJ at a traffic stop, and a handgun that I had in my car linked me to a robbery in NY where that specific handgun was stolen. The serials numbers matched, and my co-defendant/ex- girlfriend wrote statements on me, which led to my indictment and conviction in NY.

JM: What was court like? Please give as many details as you recall.
Will: Court was separate from the jail and we had to get into orange jump suits and cuffs in order to be brought there. There were different holding cells that we were broken up into and separated in order to see different judges. I remember the court house from when I was a kid, I had been there for my custody hearing.

JM: What were your original charges? What did you end up being convicted of?
Will: 1st degree robbery, a B class felony. 2nd degree robbery. They had 2 other lesser charges of larceny from a building, but they dropped them and I pled out to the 1st degree robbery charge only.

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