Criminal Charges in Domestic Violence case Involving a Knife Dropped in Queens
2017
Our client, who had hired us before to help him with a different criminal case,
contacted us again this time about a bad fight our client was in with our client’s
former partner and parent of our client’s child. Although our client
was also assaulted by the
complainant, our client wasn’t able to press charges and so our client was the
only person
arrested by the NYPD. The prosecutor filed a domestic incident report with the
court and we started heading towards trial which we planned to defend
on the ground of self-defense. One of the allegations was that our client
had threatened the
complainant with a knife during the fight. Both our client and the
complainant were bloody following the fight. After discussing mitigating information
that helped to show the prosecutor that there was more to the story than
what they were hearing, we were able to negotiate a deal where the criminal
charges were dropped in exchange for a guilty plea only to a non-criminal
violation. As a result of this deal, there was no criminal record, no
jail, no probation, and the only penalty was a small fine.