Indictment for trafikking cocaine

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Country: United States of America
State: Ohio

My boyfriend was indicted with Complicity to commit trafficking of crack cocaine (felony 3). His uncle is the co-defendant whom was indicted with the Trafficking. He simply was giving his uncle a ride home, and was caught up in the bust. He has no priors, and was given an extremely large bond 75,000. He has been in custody for two weeks & the next court date is December 21st. What can he do?

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Make sure you get counsel (or at least the public defender) to try to keep this off the record eventually--jail time is probably not likely if his record is clear now. But having that arrest and/or a conviction on the record will make job-hunting etc. more difficult. Often this could be negotiated down to a dismissal or some kind of court supervision etc.