Intellectual Property Law

My fiance is going to a preliminary hearing tommorrow for a recieving stolen property charge they continued it

they have continued it once because a witness didnt show up is it looking good for him or bad please answer?. also do they have enough evidence? what would happen if the continued a prelimanary hearing because a witness didnt show up once and they didnt show up again would the charges be dropped

Public Comments

1. maybe ,maybe not ,,,,its only 30 days in jail so don't worry about it either he had it or he didn't ,,,if they charged him he had it
2. The purpose of the preliminary hearing is to allow him to enter a plea, and then decide if there is enough evidence to send the case to trial. If the witness has been served, they will give a lto of leeway as far as a continuance. It isnt good or bad that the witness hasnt shown up. If the witness doesnt show up, depending on the case, the judge will issue a warrant for failure to answer a subpeona (contemot if court) or a warrant for material witness.
3. This is not what your lawyer would say, but here goes... regardless of whether they have enough evidence, if your fiance was guilty, I think he should admit it, serve out whatever the court gives him, and then get on with living an honest life. If he beats the system this time, he'll just get deeper and deeper into whatever he's involved in, and the end result won't be good. This is his chance to turn his life around. If he wasn't guilty or had no reason to suspect the property was stolen, then by all means, he should fight the prosecution. But, see, if he was guilty, that property that he received belonged to someone else who worked hard to pay for it. He wouldn't like it very much if someone stole his stuff and then beat the system, would he?