Lompoc, CA DUI Law Firms & Lawyers

CAN the case end up being dismissed? Sure. Is that likely, just because you want it? No. You have provided no information that would indicate your legal and factual grounds for a Motion to Dismiss. If you have any such grounds, legal defenses, etc., we can discuss them If serious about hiring counsel. What you have described is an outstanding warrant issued for failure to appear. That is what happens when the defendant does not appear in court when required. Your court file will almost certainly show a letter was sent to you at your address on file, with Notice of a court appearance date. You either did not get it, or overlooked it somehow. To handle a warrant properly, you must turn yourself in to the issuing court, with or without an attorney. You'll try to negotiate a recall of the warrant[s] and bail reduction or OR release. You'll try to negotiate a plea bargain on any Failure to Appear? charge or probation violation that caused the warrant. You'll try to negotiate a plea bargain or take to trial the outstanding charges that caused the warrant. Effective plea-bargaining, using whatever legal defenses, facts and sympathies there may be, could possibly keep you out of jail/prison, or at least dramatically reduce it. Unless you're competent to effectively represent yourself in court against a professional prosecutor trying to put you in jail, most people hire an attorney who can.

Go to the clerk's office at the courthouse where the case was filed and ask for a copy of the docket sheet for your son's case. That will tell you what happened in the case and whether or not it was dismissed.