- A 15 year old girl. :smack:
I hope this isn’t inappropriately shallow, but rent the movie 25th Hour with Edward Norton. Here’s the plot, from IMDB:
Cornered by the DEA, Montgomery Brogan (Norton) reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.
It’s not a great movie, and some of the plot lines are patently absurd. For example, when he asks his buddy to beat his face in so he won’t look so pretty, to avoid being raped.
But anyway, I thought the various interactions were interesting, in particular the first comments of different people upon seeing him that day.
I wouldn’t recommend watching it with him, btw.
You know, I knew some jerks like Dio and Machetero would crop up. And that’s why I added this disclaimer in my OP.
I thank everyone else for their replies, but I’m asking a moderator to close this thread.
Can you dig up statistics showing how much jail time he is actually facing? If its his first conviction and he had reason to believe she was at least the legal age then I assume he can get some clemency and maybe only serve a couple of years at most with some probation. As a guess, I have no idea if there are mandatory minimum sentencing laws in your state or anything. Then again I have always grown up seeing reality shows saying ‘criminal X faces up to 40 years in prison’ and finding they may only get 3 or 4. Then again sometimes they get the 40. But I doubt he gets more than 2-3 years myself. Make sure he has a lawyer at all times and doesn’t talk to the police. They may try to psychologically torture him into not having a lawyer with vague threats or by ganging up on him when he is psychologically vulnerable. Naturally I know nothing about the law, so let his lawyer take care of it but I assume his attorney can send a written statement to the police saying he will not cooperate if his attorney thinks that is in his best interest.
Talk to him about doing stuff down the road like in 5 or 6 years going in a fishing trip, something to let him know that he still has a life outside of this event after this is all over. A different life, but a life nonethelss. Maybe you can talk to him about situations you’ve been in where you thought it was the end of the world but after a few years you were back to normal, or as close to normal as you could get after the event. Everyone has at least one of those events I’m sure. Try to be blunt and let him know it was probably an accident on his part, and let him know he still has another 40-50 years of life left and that this will be a traumatic episode, but its not going to be the end for him.
Closed at the request of the OP.
Cajun Man
for the SDMB