Criminal Defense Attorney Orange

If convicted you will face serious consequences which can include Jail. Contact a defense attorney to discuss the particulars about your case in further detail.

If I understand your question you are charged with possession and possession for sale of ecstasy pills. First you will have an arraignment, if you are in custody this will happen within three days of your arrest. If you are not in custody it should be within a month. After that you have a pre-trial then the trial. If you plea to a deal you will get the sentence then. If you are convicted you will be sentence after a review by the probation department. From the limited facts you gave me you could be charged with violation of Health and Safety code section 11350(a) Possession of a controlled substance with a sentence range of 1 year 4 months, 2 years, or 3 years; and/or Health and Safety code section 11351 Possession of a controlled substance for sale with 2 years, 3 years, or 4 years possible and/or Health and Safety code section 11352(a) The sale or transportation of a controlled substance with 3 years, 4 years, or 5 years. You are in deep need of an attorney.

Possession and possession for sale of ecstasy pills are serious felony charges with a potential punishment for up to 3 years in prison on the ecstasy charge alone. As for what may happen to you, more information is needed about your case to make that determination and to further assess whether or not you have any defenses to the charges themselves. For example, it is not unusual for the District Attorney to overcharge drug possession cases by making them possession for sale cases even though there is really no intent to sell. The best advise I can give you would be to immediately contact and hire an experience criminal defense attorney to help you with your case. I hope this answer was helpful and good luck.

If both charges arise out of same act, usually one of the counts, the less serious, is dropped. In some cases, vice versa.

Assuming that you did not have enough to attract the attention of the feds (because punishment with the feds is generally much higher) and these are your only two convictions then you will probably not have to go to prison. However you may have to spend up to eight months and twenty days in jail, depending on the county and how good your lawyer is. I hope things work out for you.