Hello, I have a question maybe you can answer? If I had a public defender who only spoke with me for 27 minutes total that never asked me for any documentation of proof until I kept asking are we going to meet in person before this trial or wait until the day of the trial to try and figure it all out!! Thats basically what happened except I sent him all my evidence which he never opened the email I had to ask him at the trial why we aren't using my evidence to contradict what the procession just accused me of he told me to shut my f'n mouth or something close to that. The witness were lying on the stand and I was able to show him as they were doing it that they were lying and he wouldn't say anything I also asked are we not going to bring in any witnesses on my behalf like character witnesses or past customers to show I do good work and always go way above and beyond the scope of what I told them they would get in the estimate without ever charging a penny more than what was on the invoice. I've had customers cry telling me I built them their life long dream! Well he told me its too late for that in a text! My first conversation on the phone with him was for around 20 min and he asked me to tell him about the story of what happened. So I proceeded to tell him from the very beginning and he would ask a few questions pertaining to what I was telling him and then all of a sudden switched to these are yes or no questions and lectures me how stupid I am and that im going to prison if I get questioned on the stand! I said im very aware that talking on the stand is very different vs answering your question you originally told me! So needless to say the remaining 15 or so minutes where how I was going to prison if I didn't shut up! Then he called me months later for 7 minutes basically the exact same thing happened which I recorded so I could let my wife hear why we needed to figure how to get a new attorney but was too late i guess because it was one week before the trial I was told! Needless to say after never showing any of my evidence he told me his closing statement he was going to throw me under the bus which he did a great job at that and I ended up receiving a guilty vote! I was charged with theft 750 dollars and home improvement fraud between 750-50,000 I do custom outdoor living spaces that are one off designs I was debating on closing my business down because I have alot of major medical issues that the customer was made aware of and that the project would take longer than another contractor but I put my heart into every inch of it! And with it being winter it would take longer because the conditions could stop me from working or my illnesses could stop me he still agreed to move forward on the project! I said we would have a jump start on spring with getting what we can get done during the winter. So with him being a doctor and stating he completely understood my illnesses that he didn't care how long if it was going to be as beautiful as all my other projects! So I felt maybe one more project! Boy was I wrong! The customer had become my doctor at the begging of the build because he told me he had done alot of studies on my disease! That most definitely ended up not being true or was apparent! Most of my projects im dealing with the customer's for months or even a year or so prior to starting until we all agree on Design and costs! We meet in mid September and had the design and cost agreed on and he wanted to give a deposit which I took I told him im still working on a project and im really close to finishing but the weather wasn't being my friend! So I would start after I was able to finish the last few days of work I had but it kept raining so it put the project off like another week but we were also waiting on his approval from the homeowners association which didn't come through until November 26th which during that time I had already started Bringing supplies throughout the month and did what I could do until the approval came in. But my official first day of digging was Dec 4th on that day the weather had not called for any rain it was beautiful out and then after digging 1.5 feet down and before I had a chance to trench it out a huge rain storm came which flooded my dig then the weather dropped to below freezing and pretty much stayed that way off and on throughout with nice periodically coming and after each 3 or for days of solid rain the sun would pop out and I would get text messages letting me know its nice out and I should be there not thinking about his hill and all the frozen dirt and mud that I would be spinning my wheels like I did the last time I listened to him and just tried to keep him happy by showing up which set me back 2 weeks because he asked me to move forward in an area that had solid ice on it! At this point I'm starting realize how pushy he is and doesn't understand anything about building! But basically from December to all April we had a very wet frozen project that moved very slowly with more occasional nice days here and there but never was long enough to thaw the project even though I brought big tents and heaters at the beginning which just never caught up with all the rain and snow we constantly got! Until like the last week or 2 in April and 1st week in March which I finally got all the excavation and foundation done along with completely regrading their yard to match up with final patio heights. The space was to tight to bring all materials at once and only had one way in and out that didn't have much room for pre staging materials. But I had let them know we finally made it past the hump and everything else is smooth sailing from here! But he decided if text me I didn't sign a new contract with him I was to stop working and he has an attorney and we should not talk anymore and he's going to have me arrested for fraud! I sent him pictures of building projects his exact same size and larger showing the time stamps of a week that they were completed on from the exact same condition his was in! He said no talking and his attorney would be contacting me! Time goes by and without hearing from him or his attorney and 3 police officers show up to arrest me! Here's the medical conditions I have that he was made 100% aware of and how they could effect me possibly not being able to work no matter how nice it on a day they decide to flare up worse than they already make me feel daily Psoriatic arthritis Ankyolising Spondylitis Nerve entrapment in lumbar could barely walk without severe pain in fact I had/have severe pain even if im just laying down doing nothing Diabetes Debilitating fatigue that completely wipes me out without notice! Lots of nerve pain And severe lumbar pain to name a few! But I have to work or I will lose everything!!! Also during his project I had 3 back surgeries and one upper spine epidural which I wasn't to supposed to work for a week or so after each one but the day/eve of each surgery I still came and worked! I worked in rain, freezing rain, snow etc... and did what I could do but was never good enough for him I guess! Which none of this information was given during court except the attorney/public defender barely touched that subject!!! Now I'm marked as a criminal felon for the rest of my life! All for trying my best to make someone a beautiful space they would never get from someone else! But he wanted every dime back and the company he hired and used as a witness against me and paid then 15,000 more than my price was able to lay directly on the foundation i prepared and was done in 2 weeks! This while I was working there I guess from the testimony stated he was able to lay the product directly on my surface with minor changes but first tried to make me look bad until he found out I was more experienced in them and I got him to get them to admit they didn't have to start all over like they testified to at 1st But between my attorney and prosecutor Making me sound like the most horrible person in the world and had full intentions on scamming them from the beginning and only showed a picture from the first storm when there was huge mud puddles everywhere stated this is what my customers received for theirs money! And I showed my attorney pictures of a completely different condition because I took many pictures every day I was there he didn't show that or any of them! So at the end and found guilty then he proceeds to tell me that tomorrow morning I meet with probation and to tell them everything that happened and to take all my evidence that they will get my charges reduced!!! I'm like so im supposed to believe someone from this country court is going to help me now and now I get to show my evidence!!! Ok yes I have complete faith that they are going to help me!!! After all his great help! Hopefully this isn't a waste of my time either Sorry I think I've lost faith in everything!
Hello, I have a question maybe you can answer?
If I had a public defender who only spoke with me for 27 minutes total that never asked me for any documentation of proof until I kept asking are we going to meet in person before this trial or wait until the day of the trial to try and figure it all out!!
Thats basically what happened except I sent him all my evidence which he never opened the email I had to ask him at the trial why we aren't using my evidence to contradict what the procession just accused me of he told me to shut my f'n mouth or something close to that. The witness were lying on the stand and I was able to show him as they were doing it that they were lying and he wouldn't say anything
I also asked are we not going to bring in any witnesses on my behalf like character witnesses or past customers to show I do good work and always go way above and beyond the scope of what I told them they would get in the estimate without ever charging a penny more than what was on the invoice. I've had customers cry telling me I built them their life long dream! Well he told me its too late for that in a text! My first conversation on the phone with him was for around 20 min and he asked me to tell him about the story of what happened. So I proceeded to tell him from the very beginning and he would ask a few questions pertaining to what I was telling him and then all of a sudden switched to these are yes or no questions and lectures me how stupid I am and that im going to prison if I get questioned on the stand! I said im very aware that talking on the stand is very different vs answering your question you originally told me! So needless to say the remaining 15 or so minutes where how I was going to prison if I didn't shut up!
Then he called me months later for 7 minutes basically the exact same thing happened which I recorded so I could let my wife hear why we needed to figure how to get a new attorney but was too late i guess because it was one week before the trial I was told!
Needless to say after never showing any of my evidence he told me his closing statement he was going to throw me under the bus which he did a great job at that and I ended up receiving a guilty vote!
I was charged with theft 750 dollars and home improvement fraud between 750-50,000
I do custom outdoor living spaces that are one off designs
I was debating on closing my business down because
I have alot of major medical issues that the customer was made aware of and that the project would take longer than another contractor but I put my heart into every inch of it! And with it being winter it would take longer because the conditions could stop me from working or my illnesses could stop me he still agreed to move forward on the project! I said we would have a jump start on spring with getting what we can get done during the winter. So with him being a doctor and stating he completely understood my illnesses that he didn't care how long if it was going to be as beautiful as all my other projects! So I felt maybe one more project! Boy was I wrong!
The customer had become my doctor at the begging of the build because he told me he had done alot of studies on my disease! That most definitely ended up not being true or was apparent!
Most of my projects im dealing with the customer's for months or even a year or so prior to starting until we all agree on Design and costs!
We meet in mid September and had the design and cost agreed on and he wanted to give a deposit which I took
I told him im still working on a project and im really close to finishing but the weather wasn't being my friend! So I would start after I was able to finish the last few days of work I had but it kept raining so it put the project off like another week but we were also waiting on his approval from the homeowners association which didn't come through until November 26th which during that time I had already started Bringing supplies throughout the month and did what I could do until the approval came in. But my official first day of digging was Dec 4th on that day the weather had not called for any rain it was beautiful out and then after digging 1.5 feet down and before I had a chance to trench it out a huge rain storm came which flooded my dig then the weather dropped to below freezing and pretty much stayed that way off and on throughout with nice periodically coming and after each 3 or for days of solid rain the sun would pop out and I would get text messages letting me know its nice out and I should be there not thinking about his hill and all the frozen dirt and mud that I would be spinning my wheels like I did the last time I listened to him and just tried to keep him happy by showing up which set me back 2 weeks because he asked me to move forward in an area that had solid ice on it! At this point I'm starting realize how pushy he is and doesn't understand anything about building!
But basically from December to all April we had a very wet frozen project that moved very slowly with more occasional nice days here and there but never was long enough to thaw the project even though I brought big tents and heaters at the beginning which just never caught up with all the rain and snow we constantly got! Until like the last week or 2 in April and 1st week in March which I finally got all the excavation and foundation done along with completely regrading their yard to match up with final patio heights. The space was to tight to bring all materials at once and only had one way in and out that didn't have much room for pre staging materials. But I had let them know we finally made it past the hump and everything else is smooth sailing from here! But he decided if text me I didn't sign a new contract with him I was to stop working and he has an attorney and we should not talk anymore and he's going to have me arrested for fraud! I sent him pictures of building projects his exact same size and larger showing the time stamps of a week that they were completed on from the exact same condition his was in! He said no talking and his attorney would be contacting me!
Time goes by and without hearing from him or his attorney and 3 police officers show up to arrest me!
Here's the medical conditions I have that he was made 100% aware of and how they could effect me possibly not being able to work no matter how nice it on a day they decide to flare up worse than they already make me feel daily
Psoriatic arthritis
Ankyolising Spondylitis
Nerve entrapment in lumbar could barely walk without severe pain in fact I had/have severe pain even if im just laying down doing nothing
Diabetes
Debilitating fatigue that completely wipes me out without notice!
Lots of nerve pain
And severe lumbar pain to name a few!
But I have to work or I will lose everything!!!
Also during his project I had 3 back surgeries and one upper spine epidural which I wasn't to supposed to work for a week or so after each one but the day/eve of each surgery I still came and worked!
I worked in rain, freezing rain, snow etc... and did what I could do but was never good enough for him I guess!
Which none of this information was given during court except the attorney/public defender barely touched that subject!!!
Now I'm marked as a criminal felon for the rest of my life! All for trying my best to make someone a beautiful space they would never get from someone else!
But he wanted every dime back and the company he hired and used as a witness against me and paid then 15,000 more than my price was able to lay directly on the foundation i prepared and was done in 2 weeks! This while I was working there I guess from the testimony stated he was able to lay the product directly on my surface with minor changes but first tried to make me look bad until he found out I was more experienced in them and I got him to get them to admit they didn't have to start all over like they testified to at 1st
But between my attorney and prosecutor Making me sound like the most horrible person in the world and had full intentions on scamming them from the beginning and only showed a picture from the first storm when there was huge mud puddles everywhere stated this is what my customers received for theirs money! And I showed my attorney pictures of a completely different condition because I took many pictures every day I was there he didn't show that or any of them!
So at the end and found guilty then he proceeds to tell me that tomorrow morning I meet with probation and to tell them everything that happened and to take all my evidence that they will get my charges reduced!!!
I'm like so im supposed to believe someone from this country court is going to help me now and now I get to show my evidence!!!
Ok yes I have complete faith that they are going to help me!!!
After all his great help!
Hopefully this isn't a waste of my time either
Sorry I think I've lost faith in everything!