Why my cousin needs to get an attorney

My cousin gets into the dumbest situations. He had been going out with this one girl for about five months and then she broke up with him. He said that it was a mutual thing and then he started to kind of follow her. Its hard to say he stalked her as they work at the same place and even live in the same apartment complex. He ended up getting arrested breaking into her car to retrieve some of his stuff. He has a court date coming up soon and he hired himself a Misdemeanor Lawyer to see if he can get the charges dropped.