[Music] and welcome to facts or frauds what you are witnessing is real the participants are not actors State just gave him access to right perfect so miss Pew Mr Jeff has been wanted to represent you um he's just been given he's trying to get caught up real quickly on all the information and the discovery in your case I'm going to reset your case so that he can get all of that once he gets it he'll be out there to go over it with you and we'll see if we can get an announcement at the next court date agents St understand we've we've had this conversation before I be representing myself so if you want to represent yourself there's some things Miss Pew stop talking over me if you want to stop talking over me if you want to represent yourself then there is a process that we have to go through and we'll do that today if that's what you want to do we'll get your case set for trial and we'll go forward that way it is highly inadvisable for you to represent yourself lawyers have many many years of training they understand the law they understand how a trial works because here's what happens when you're in a trial and you represent yourself you're expected to know and follow all of the Rules of Evidence all the rules of procedure and so you're really at a disadvantage if you don't know those things and so what you can you have to do everything just like the assistant district attorney would and if you don't you're going to be in front of a jury and it's going to show and it's just not going to be usually does not work out in your benefit but I have to go through with you some questions first before we do that and then if you still want to do that then there's a couple things that we couple of options and we'll go over those as well okay so um I am supposed to ask you I'm going to go through these questions I need you to answer them if you want to represent yourself because this is required all right so have you ever studied the law okay um have you ever represented yourself before in any kind of criminal matter okay um do you understand uh the charges against you okay and so are you do you know and we've gone over before I think what the range of punishment is if you're found guilty by a jury do you know what that is let's see hold on a second let me pull you up here go over that again as well so you're charged with a third degree felony offense of injury to a child uh the date of that allegations from June 22nd of 2021 and what that means is if you're found guilty that the range of punishment um that the jury could give you is between two years as a minimum punishment up to 10 years in prison anywhere in between do you understand and J answer out loud just for the record understand I don't understand what do you not understand about that I don't understand so here's the thing if you want to represent yourself by law you have to be able to understand these things otherwise I've got an appoint an attorney for you so you can't just say I want to represent myself because I don't like the attorney or I don't like the process this is the process that you're in you live in Texas you live in the United States this is the law that applies to your case so what do you not understand about the of punishment if you're found guilty and I'd be glad to explain it understand that's what a jury is for right and so if you say you're not guilty then you go in front of a jury and they determine after they listen to the evidence if you're guilty or not that doesn't have anything to do with if they find you guilty you understanding that they could send you to prison for between two years and up to 10 years do you understand that part what do you yes or no no you don't understand that so miss Pew it's my understanding I'm not going to allow you to represent yourself because you don't understand the law and the process so that's we're on question number four out of 15 that I'm supposed to ask you so Mr Jeff is going to stay on your case I don't know Mr Jeff hear what you want at this point you can't do it all right you can go back with the bay I'm done go back with the B go back with the pay welcome to the criminal appointment list this is this was not meant to be any kind of punishment I promise hey she just vanished how did she do that probably like this y that's probably how she did it and thanks for hanging out with us on factor for ODS make sure you hit that Thumbs Up Button you're subscribed and ring that Bell for notifications so the next time Premier video you can me to live chat with everyone else and leave a comment in the comment section tell me what you think and a huge thank you to all of our faxer frauds channel members and if you'd like to become a member click on join right next to subscribe or the link in the description now if you're still hanging around thank you why not hit that Thumbs Up Button subscribe if you're not already and ring that Bell also leave a comment in the comment section tell me what you 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