Hi, I wanted to marry a moroccan woman but I have a criminal record - assault occasioning actual bodily harm - I was convicted in 2017 and was 22 years old at the time. When I was going through due process my lawyer said "thankfully the crime isn't malicious", I basically tackled someone to the ground after a heated exchange and because of the direction of their fall, their head hit the corner of a wall which caused them to bleed from their head. I administered first aid, Police and Ambulance were shortly called and I was arrested and charged at the scene.
At the date of the trial I pleaded guilty and produced something like 12 character references (something even the magistrate was shocked at) but ultimately was given a conviction in order to "send a message to the community".
Anyway, 7 years later I'm still feeling the effects of my conviction now that I want to marry a woman from morocco. I'm afraid the police and the judge will reject my marriage because of my conviction; it doesn't help that its a topic I don't like talking about too because of how it has affected me through life. It also doesn't help that I'm suspicious of corruption in the moroccan public sector.
I was thinking of hiring a lawyer to help me make my case. Should I do this? Can anyone recommend a good lawyer to help make my case before the judge/police?
Would it be easier to just skip the whole "getting married in morocco" thing and just fly her to Australia and get married here?
