things would be so easy if he can pay the fine. he may go jail for 90 days plus fine. not only fine !
Got to be more to this, people don’t go to jail for three months for firecrackers.Was he selling them???What town and state did this happen. BTW, He can always tell the judge he wants to represent himself and then just plead gulty and pay the fine.
35 eh? Old enough to know better.
When I was about 17 I obtained a copy of the Texas State Penal Code and read it cover to cover.
It has all the state criminal laws, punishments and fines spelled out in plain English.
Can’t say I always stayed strictly within the law as a young man *but* there was no mistake what would happen were I to end up with a ticket or a pair of handcuffs.
And by the way, whenever someone we knew got arrested or ticketed, it was invariably something stupid (like your friend).
We always heaped humiliation and scorn on them. And any whining only increased our volume of ridicule.
Tell the friend to pay the fine, do the jail time and stop blubbering about it.
Tell him to hire a lawyer, pay the fine and then grow up.