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Sharpieman
04-28-2005, 10:16 AM
Ok, so let me tell you the backstory of this whole crazy thing. My mom had been friends with this lady, lets call her Mary, for about 15 years. Mary has a daughter who had been best friends with my eldest brother sine they were both 7 or something. The daughter of Mary is a parapolegic from a car accident that she and her mom had been in when she was 2 years old. As a result, they sued the car company and a couple of people and were both awarded lots of money. The daughter of Mary still gets checks (lots of money and she lives off these checks). Mary has green in her eyes, and has always been after her daughters money. My Mom and Mary at one point stopped their relationship, but my Mom has always been the mother figure to Mary's daughter and somewhat continues to be. Mary is very jealous of this.

Anyways, one of my other brothers moved into Mary's daughters house (and pays rent of course). Ever since then, Mary has been kind of after my brother, saying that he's leeching off her or whatever. Another one of my brothers, started to be friends with Mary's Daughter and they became fairly close. One day this brother of mine was at the daughters house and the daughter started foaming at the mouth. My brother thought it was joke at first but then started to freak out. Instinctively, he stuck his fingers down her mouth, thus opening the pathway to her lungs-the police and firemen who came to the scene told him that he saved her life. She then bought him a brand new camero as a gift. Unfortunately he later died in that car driving too fast. Now Mary thought that my brother was also leeching off her daughter and began verbal attacks on my mom. At one point, she called and threatened that she was going to come to my dead brothers funeral and "expose" him as a money grubbing bastard. My mom called the cops and they made sure that she didn't come.

Fastforward to a few weeks ago when Mary called up her daughter and told her that she and their family were going to come over and have a BBQ, the daughter didn't want her to come over but she did anyways. My brother, who lives with the daughter called my mom and asked her to come over because Mary was acting out in a way on the phone and making her daughter cry. My mom came over and the daughter called the cops on Mary (the daughter actually has a restraining order on her own Mary). Well Mary arrived before the cops came and saw my brother and Mom there. She started swearing and threatening both my mom saying things like "your going to die like your son did" and "how would you like it to be in the grave with your son". Mary had a poster with her that was wrapped up and lightly hit my mom on the arm. My Mom said, "whoops, you just assaulted me, your going to jail." Mary flipped out and went to the kitchen and got a knife and pointed it at my brother and threatened him (she also cut up this poster that she had with her). She then left and went outside to her car and got some eggs out. She then started to hit my brothers car with them. He went out and stood in front of his car to prevent her from doing so. Mary got into her car and tried to back into my brother and then left. The Police finally came (they said they had to stop because of a gas leak) and got the eyewitness report of Mary's actions by my Mom, my brother and her daughter.

Fastforward to a couple of weeks ago, Mary apparently has a very rich father who got a high priced lawyer, the actual husband of a congresswoman. Mary now has a restraining order and isn't allowed to go near my mom. Mary has 6 minors on her now, I don't know exaclty what they are or whatever but it was taken down from 5 minors and 1 felony. Oh I forgot one thing, the day after she was served with the restraining order, she called up the cops and told them that my mom had called her and harassed her. Of course my mom wasn't home at the time and there is no records of her calling Mary. So now Mary has a charge of lying to police or something like that. Needless to say, this woman has mental problems.

Basically what I want to know is, you think that she's going to be able to get off all these charges with a very good lawyer? I think it would be a shame for her to be let off free. But I've seen crazier things happen (Robert Blake, O.J., probably Michael Jackson too). Also, is there any way that my mom could get sued for anything? I don't know how it could happen but again I've seen crazier things happen (Bill O'Reilly counter-suing).

Lathum
04-28-2005, 10:22 AM
I don't know anything about law but it sounds like Mary will probably be able to plea bargin and get off with probation and community service. I doubt she can do anything to your mom and a good lawyer will probably tell her that, plus your mom can always countersue.

cartman
04-28-2005, 11:01 AM
Criminally there probably isn't much more your mom can do. However, if she wants to pursue this further is civil courts, the burden of proof is much lower, and since there is already a restraining order in place, that can only help in a civil trial.