 Hi, I'm David Cantor with the Law Offices of David Michael Cantor and today I'm going to talk about false reporting in Arizona. Now under Arizona revised statute 13-2907, false reporting occurs when somebody misrepresents a fact for the purpose of interfering with law enforcement. For example, lying about your age or name, what happened, or if you initiate a false report of an emergency with the intent to disrupt the occupation of a building or initiate emergency responders. That's like a bomb scare or a fire or hey, there's a gunman and you call 911 to get police responders. Now punishment, if you're convicted of false reporting, it's a misdemeanor but it carries probation up to six months in jail also a $2,500 fine and another 84% surcharge on top of that. Defenses to false reporting. We interview all of the police and the person's present because we want to be able to show there was a lack of intent. What does this mean? This means you misunderstood the situation or you misunderstood what the officer was asking when you gave your answer. Also, true belief or emergency. That means you had a true belief there was an emergency and the test that is used is a reasonable person standard under a totality of the circumstances and we'll look into that where maybe you just misunderstood what was going on. Common defenses, Miranda rights violations, coerced statements by the officer, the right to counsel if you ask for a lawyer and they're denying you that opportunity. Forensics, what we'll do is we can check the phone that was used get phone records to call in the report. Maybe it was a phone that many people used, maybe not. Sloppy police reports, we look at that all the time. So if you or a loved one was charged with false reporting give us a call and set up a free initial consultation in our office. It takes 30 minutes and it won't cost you anything. Come in and meet with us. We have many attorneys who have handled hundreds of these cases. We have multiple certified criminal law specialists on staff and we'd love to help you out so I look forward to hearing from you soon.