1- Get the best lawyer you can afford. Consider what it'll cost to lose your job for 18 months....that's what the real cost will be if you lose ...that and more. Heck, if the Others are the usual losers, they'll be civil-suing you, too...mo money, mo money, mo money. 2- Find out if PTI exists, in case it seems you will lose regardless. Pre-Trial Intervention can get you probabtion instead of jail time...tho I suspect any decent lawyer can get you probation if this is your first violent offense... and if your area has such an option. If you have a record, well, you probably just made it a little longer. 3- Being hit first hardly ever does you any good in court. The weasel in the robe figures dignity is worthless (hence, the robe), so when possible, you should flee, not fight. If you stay to fight when you could have ran away, you are no longer an innocent...in the eyes of the law, anyway. The judge wants you to be a p*ssy. 4- Just what is it you did to get that many folks to line up against you? I'm getin' the sneakin' feelin' you might have had it coming! :) John W Rosa www.JavelinAMX.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BaadAssGremlins/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: BaadAssGremlins-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/