Q: How does my boyfriend get the charges dropped?
Long story short my boyfriends grandmother was harassing and yelling at him to pick up two small stones of concrete. He told her to stop giving an attitude or he was not going to do so. She continued to follow him around the yard, as he opened my car door she then pulled my door back, pushed him inside and slammed him in the door, he got out of the door and she started grabbing at him, so he had pushed her off of him and she fell. She waited two days to go to the police to file that he had pushed her and left out that she was the one who started this all. She also did not make a statement.
A: Domestic charges are serious and potentially a felony depending on the grandmother’s age. Your boyfriend needs a lawyer. It may be possible to get the charges dropped, but there is no ‘one size fits all’ answer. Please contact and retain an attorney. Don’t try to do this alone. I hope this response is helpful to you both.
Neville Bedford agrees with this answer
A: Attorney Thomas Briody has given you some excellent, valuable, advice to which I would only add: refrain from making any further public statements about the case. Help your boyfriend engage professional representation with a licensed attorney.
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