ok, my brother was in a parked car with his friend in the drive-way of were his friend stays. he was in the front passenger seat and his friend was in the driver seat as it is his car. my brother was visiting and they were listening to music in the car and just hanging out. a neighbor called the police for the music. the officers walked up to the vehicle and had them step out. they said they were there for a call of drug activity which there was none and never has been. they searched the car and found a gun under the seat my brother was sitting on. he had noidea it was there or that his friend had it but they charged him with possession of a firearm, and only him. can he beat this bogus charge? can they really charge him for that?

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Capitalization. New concept. Try it next time before you write.

I thought maybe we had ee cummings posting on our board under an alias.

No, ee cummings didn't use punctuation either.

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can he beat this bogus charge?

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The only thing worse than a "bogus charge" is being railroaded, whatever the heck that means.

Can't you also be Bamboozled, Run a Muck, Framed, Left Holding the Bag, Cooked Up, Set Up, Trumped Up, and Shammed?

Oops, looks like you forgot the classic "shafted".

I used to tell my kids to be careful who they hang with lest they pay the consequences for someone else's actions.

Janette A