[Stormymystic]

In light of the thread Texas Justice, and some post from there, I had to ask ow you guys would act in this situation, this is a true story that happened to me and my family, so here it is

It was March 22 2002, 3 days after my 26th Birthday, and decided to have a party at the local bar, in attendence was 4 of mt friends, my parents, my second oldest brother, and my husband and I and 2 of his friends from work, we were having a great time, dancing singing karaoke and played pool, as time went on, the group started dwindeling, until there was oly my 4 friends my brother, husband and me, we decided to take my brother and 2 of my friends to my friends house and drop them of, while the rest of us went to the liquor store and got our favorit hard liquor, and my husband got me a hotel room for my birthday so I could have a night away from the kids, it was 2 blocks away from my home, you could walk out of the room and see my home, so we decided to go there and get drunk, but went back to my house first because I had a stange feeling, and told the babysitter(the couples oldest daughter and her little brothers) to keep the door locked at all times and not to let ANYONE in unless it was us, so we got to the room, and started driking and watching cable, when the telephone rang, it was the front desk, asking if we knew a girl named Melissa and 2 boys named Anton and Alex, and we freaked out, that was my friends kids, someone had broken into my home and threw them out, so everyone started splitting up and deciding what to do, while I was terrified for my kids, we soon found out is was my brother who had broken in, my husband took off down the street, my female friend was on the phone with 911, her husband was at the front desk getting the kids, remember this, it was 27 degrees (f) that night, and the youngest had no clothes on save for his sisters sweat shirt, she was wearing a lite shirt, and I decided to walk down there, my female friend got off the phone and jumped in the car, she offered me a lift, but I wanted her to get on down there, as I got to the end of the road, my husband had found my brother outside, as I turned the corner, he was picking up a child off of my brothers chest, I could not tell which one it was, or if they were even ok, I stopped and caught my breath, my husband took the child home, then came back and picked my brother up my his throat, and slammed him to the ground, rupturing his ear drum, my husband told him that he had crossed the line when he messed with our kids( he has been trying to get my husband to fight since we met) I got to the house, and counted my children, broke down and cried then went and grabbed the first thing I could find, a broom, and went out to kill my brother, he had my 4 month old baby out in the cold night air while she was already sick, wearing nothing but a lite newborn gown, my husband and the male friend caught me just as I started to swing the broom and the friend hid the broom cause the cops had just pulled up, when they put him in the car, everyone made me go home, and I sat there crying and freaking out, all I kept thinking was what if he had landed on her instead of the other way around?..... a neighbor, who had also been looking for him because he had broke into their house first, sat and calmed me down for a little while, then I called my parents and was screaming and yelling at them about what their precious son had done, They sent my oldest brother over to investigate, and my husband went off on him for a second, and then he calmed down and told my brother what had happened, then the next day my grandmother started calling me and yelling and blaming me for everything, she oes not really like me, and when it had gone way to far, to where my brother was going to get away with what he had done because she was forcing me with guilt to speak to a mental illness lawyer to get the charges dropped, my husband went off on her and forbid her to talk to me again, he also made sure that there was no way I could drop the charges, and when my mom found that out, she came over threating me, and was trying to fight me, my friends, neighbors, and husband were keeping me in the yard, she would not come in it, and we told her if she did not leave, we would call the cops, she kept on, and she knew the cops would take her to jail if they found her behind the wheel, she has no license, and it happened that the arresting officer came by at tat time, and told my mother to leave, and if she caught her driving again se would go to jail, then she turned to me and lectured me about needing to stay calm until the charges were in place, after time went on, they placed a no contact order on my brother, so that if I talked to him, or him to me, we would both be in trouble, we went to court 3 times over this, and each time we begged our lawyers to make him get help, we did not wat him to go to prison, he is schistophrenic(or however you spell it) and was heavily using drugs, ot taking his seizure meds and drinking way to much, the last time, my oldest brother and uncle saw how my grandmother was behaving, she threathend us in the court room, we told our lawyer, and he kept a watch on it, he also asked why my brother would not take the plea they offered, and we told him to talk to my brother, because they were going through the lawyer and my grandmother, who was declining it, sayig it was my fault and not my brothers because I bought him the beer, but my brother saw the plea, and said yes he would take it, the judge had a heart attack damn near it, when he read the plea, the charges were as follows
endangerment of minors 6 counts
breaking and entering 2 counts
false inprisonment 1 count
resisting arrest 3 counts
the plea is as follows
3 years probation, 6 months weekly check in, and monthly after that, manditory drug and menatl treatment, and manditory use of his proper meds
this was fine with us, but the judge was on the verge of over rulling it, but because my brother was honest in the fact that he did what he was charged with the judge allowed it, but my brothers lawyer was crazy, and was telling te judge that he did ot belive my brother was guilty and kept on, the judge asked im if he would like to put my brother on a jury trial in which his admiting he was guilty would be taken in account, and my brother and uncle were grabig him and telling him to get quiet, so my question is.......
How would you have handle this situation? the same or differently? and please explain [img]smile.gif[/img]


oh and ps, now that my brother is clean and sober, he is in church, we are now talking again, and he sees the kids under supervision, ad he loves them to no end, he says the reason he went in in the first place was the aby was screaming and crying, and the girl was ot taking care of her, afterr careful remembering of the night, I find that I belive him to a degree, there was a baby bottle full sitting on the sink, when we changed her diaper, she was soaked and leaking, so yes I do belive in his mind at the time he thought he was doing right