So, I made a post about this before, but this time I'm asking for some advice. Let me give you the short story.
Roomate asked me to duck out for a few hours so he could be with his girlfriend. He had a few friends over at the time I left but I was under no impression that they would be drinking. Anyway, I called a girl I knew and arranged to spend the night with her. I went to her place for a few hours then decided to run back to the dorm to grab somethings. (Change of clothes, shower.. 😛 )
So, anyway, when I get back to my room there are about 10 people having a pretty wild time. Normally I just turn a blind eye to this sort of thing, I like to have my fun too but I don't want to push things too far. I realized they were being pretty loud and it was pretty late so I told them to cool it, and offered some of the drunker guys a ride home. At the point of intoxication they were at (I'm talking 10+ shots across the board) they wanted nothing to do with me. Some even got physical with me for trying to rain on their parade.
Frusterated, I realized the best thing I could do would be to leave the room. Quite literally as I was getting my things the knock on the door. Almost instantly everyone who had been in my room snuck out through the back leaving me alone in the room... with one kid who was passed out. So, I had to answer the door and talk to my RA. He made note in his incident report that I was sober when I spoke with him. However, I am stuck going to court anyway.
So I went to my pre-trial hearing today with the passed out kid (not my roomate who, as much as I hate to do it, is going to have to fess up and take responsibility for this). The kid plead guilty to two charges, violation of the campus alchohol policy and some other garbage. I pled innocent to two charges, alchohol policy violation and another charge that claims I should be held responsible for what happened in the room. If I get hit with two strikes, its pretty serious. Especially since I wasn't involved with this.
Anyway, I am going to go to court risking two strikes instead of pleading guilty and taking one. I am going to bring a witness who will attest I was at her house, and the "passed out kid" who will also attest I was not involved. So my real question is, does anyone have any sort of legal advice that may help me. I obviously have never been in a situation like this and am not sure how to conduct myself in court. Any advice or input would be appriciated. Thanks guys.
Cliffs:
1. Party in my room, I was not there.
2. I came back, tried to get people to leave, give rides home.
3. Drunks wanted nothing to do with me, gave mea hard time.
4. As I was leaving again party got busted.
5. I'm stuck going to court.
6. Help?
Roomate asked me to duck out for a few hours so he could be with his girlfriend. He had a few friends over at the time I left but I was under no impression that they would be drinking. Anyway, I called a girl I knew and arranged to spend the night with her. I went to her place for a few hours then decided to run back to the dorm to grab somethings. (Change of clothes, shower.. 😛 )
So, anyway, when I get back to my room there are about 10 people having a pretty wild time. Normally I just turn a blind eye to this sort of thing, I like to have my fun too but I don't want to push things too far. I realized they were being pretty loud and it was pretty late so I told them to cool it, and offered some of the drunker guys a ride home. At the point of intoxication they were at (I'm talking 10+ shots across the board) they wanted nothing to do with me. Some even got physical with me for trying to rain on their parade.
Frusterated, I realized the best thing I could do would be to leave the room. Quite literally as I was getting my things the knock on the door. Almost instantly everyone who had been in my room snuck out through the back leaving me alone in the room... with one kid who was passed out. So, I had to answer the door and talk to my RA. He made note in his incident report that I was sober when I spoke with him. However, I am stuck going to court anyway.
So I went to my pre-trial hearing today with the passed out kid (not my roomate who, as much as I hate to do it, is going to have to fess up and take responsibility for this). The kid plead guilty to two charges, violation of the campus alchohol policy and some other garbage. I pled innocent to two charges, alchohol policy violation and another charge that claims I should be held responsible for what happened in the room. If I get hit with two strikes, its pretty serious. Especially since I wasn't involved with this.
Anyway, I am going to go to court risking two strikes instead of pleading guilty and taking one. I am going to bring a witness who will attest I was at her house, and the "passed out kid" who will also attest I was not involved. So my real question is, does anyone have any sort of legal advice that may help me. I obviously have never been in a situation like this and am not sure how to conduct myself in court. Any advice or input would be appriciated. Thanks guys.
Cliffs:
1. Party in my room, I was not there.
2. I came back, tried to get people to leave, give rides home.
3. Drunks wanted nothing to do with me, gave mea hard time.
4. As I was leaving again party got busted.
5. I'm stuck going to court.
6. Help?
