Open Question: Will this be probation or will I go to jail?
I became friends with an elderly lady who lived up my street and would take her out to dinner and to see her ill sister in the hospital on an almost daily basis for a long time. A while after I started doing this out of kindness, she started giving me money. She would give me lots of money at a time, gradually over a couple of years, it became amounts of hundreds of dollars at a time. Then she started writing checks to me and at this point we were very close. A few times we would be out and I would need something so she would hand me a blank check (unsigned) and I would go get whatever. It was understood between us that it was okay for me to fill out the checks and sign them. Well I moved away and she gave me 3 blank checks, which I used in the amounts of $1000, $3500 and $3000. Now that she is deceased, a family member had power of attorney over her, and is taking me to court for theft and forgery. I'm getting an attorney, but what will I get?
