I CAUGHT A THEFT CHARGE.....?

thieving is NOT a disease ,so you did not catch a Probation and Habitual offender charge, it was your punishment for thieving , the second charge means you are either a prolific thief or you have committed other offences in the past, and the answer to that is yes if as according to your excuse for not getting a job is your criminal record, so like Sean I have no sympathy for you, which is obviously what you were expecting coming on to Yahoo.

I feel sorry for the rest of us honest, hard working, law abiding decent people who end up paying for your crimes.

So you now have a good job,what do you want a pat on the back ?

Hopefully for your sons sake I nope you WILL turn your life around or you will be responsible for him getting into trouble as he gets older.

Your comment about having to steal to feed yourself is BS there are plenty of people in this world who are in far worse situations than you , who do not break the law, so it is patronising of you to justify your criminal actions. you will not appreciate my answer anymore than Sean's answer you asked a Q ,we answered it , tough **** if you don't like our answers. if that's the case don't ask Qs

It won't make a lot of difference because you will be judged based on the severity of the crime, your history and whether or not you care about the fact that you don't care about hurting others. You are set on a path of self destruction and self victimisation.

"Whaa, poor me my life sucks, you don't know man! The public defender doesn' really care". Well no the public defender does care, but when you start trying to cry like a little girl about how you're just "Trying to improve me life", yet you're a full grown man who stole from someone else without a care, try and understand, you are like the 20th they have seen all day who said EXACTLY the same thing.

The reality is, your story doesn't matter in the courtroom. The only person who can care bout yourself is you. Paying for a lawyer, all you're getting is a sympathy service.

The public defender will do their job just as well as a lawyer, but they won't have simpathy for you, because quite frankly, you don't deserve simpathy. Why? Because you're the bad guy! (The only thing you will get out of a lawyer is PAID sympathy)

If however you can acknowledge that you suck at life (to yourself, not to others for sympathy), then from there you can potentially improve in life, but it means you have to stop being the victim and start being a contributer firstly to yourself, then to the world.

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Again. You are of course the victim! Poor you! Hence the reason you refer to the defender as the pretender because they don't coddle you and your story.

You deserve to be judged, and you deserve to be judged by a judge in a courtroom, because that is the law, but they have to be professional, so they don't shake their fingers at you. They just give you your sentence and send you on your way. Same as psychologists, same as police officers, nurses, doctors and public servants. But really, the only reason they remain professional is because they want to hold onto their jobs, even though trying to convince you that you ARE the bad guy as much as you don't want to hear it. And here you are judjing one one them. "Oh the public pretender isn't going to help me" Corruption!, Persecution! Everything is unfair on me!" Well, when you believe this to be so, you choose to ignore your own flaws.

Based on the comment about the Public defender, You're not sorry either. You're not sincere. You don't care. You just want to avoid the punishment. Well, if that IS all you care about, then I garauntee that whether you avoid this next sentence or not, if you DON'T care about others, then you will hurt them again. Continue singing your sad story and you will continue to live it.

Stop being a victim and I garauntee if you actually decided to give a damn, then these poepple such as the public defender, welfare workers etc, would actually see that, and go that one step further to help you help yourself. But at the end of the day it IS all on you. Everything including your failures AND successes are on YOU. Stop being a victim. Just stop it.

I'd say none, and for the love of whatever god(s) you believe in, stop typing in all caps.