I am thinking that the paralegal did NOT follow your intructions (file 11B) and pleaded without your consent. I would be asking for a re-opening of all the charges asap. There is a term for when your legal help messes up, but I do not know what it is. And also, you should not have to pay for them to do something that you did not ask them to do.

Of course the downside is that you could end up being found guilty of all the charges, but again there might be a way to sue paralegal as well.

I have no specific details or experience with this, but I think that it should not have happened.

I really appreciate the advice so far. I need to make a decision in the next few days if I should ask to have it re-opened or not. I would really like some more opinions

What I want to know is for the last trial date on friday I was at the 13 month mark and I think an 11b would have been successful. Now that my paralegal has screwed up, does this mean that an 11b would not work anymore because this delay would be the fault of my paralegal? (but not my fault)

I think that if the 11b would have been succesful then it will still be succesful, but I am not 100% sure.