Re: Misdemeanor Jury Trial, Extortion from "Victim," and Assault Charges
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I know, but knowing women beaters as well as I do... he's more than likely lying through his teeth.
I was married to my first wife for 26 years and she is the first to come forward and say there isn't a violent bone in my body. Your "knowing women beaters" has nothing to do with me.
To everybody else, thank you for your input.
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That's all I'm saying. If dude is really had $500k, he wouldn't be on a free forum asking for input.
"Dude" does and "Dude" is represented by a competent law firm. "Dude" was merely seeking more information from what I thought was a competent group. You have swayed my belief in that theory.
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I was married to my first wife for 26 years and she is the first to come forward and say there isn't a violent bone in my body. Your "knowing women beaters" has nothing to do with me.
To everybody else, thank you for your input.
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"Dude" does and "Dude" is represented by a competent law firm. "Dude" was merely seeking more information from what I thought was a competent group. You have swayed my belief in that theory.
Honestly, your post comes across as a "spin"...you may not have intended to spin anything but that is how it comes across. If it comes across that way to us, then how do you think its going to come across to a judge? If you have an attorney you should be relying on the advice of your attorney.
Re: Misdemeanor Jury Trial, Extortion from "Victim," and Assault Charges
You are on a public internet forum asking about what your options are? You broke this woman's nose while refusing to give her back her phone. Forgive me for not giving you the benefit of the doubt. There are two things I don't play with Domestics and orders of protection. I am absolutely positive that a group of competent attorneys that you've shared your story and your evidence with would give you a much better rundown of your options, as opposed to a bunch of strangers that you never met. Furthermore, I am sure that you are aware that your version os more than likely to have one or two lapses of information. So, if your wife is truly extorting money from you, I am sure it wouldn't be hard to prove. If your counsel felt that you had enough evidence to push forward with going after her, I'm sure they wold have advised that. They didn't apparently. So, sorry dude. I'm sticking with my opinion. Sorry dude, that's what happens when you post to a public forum.
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I just cannot believe that her nose got broken just because she ran into his upraised hand. Unless she was running at 100 miles an hour, he had to have used much more force than simply holding his hand up. Given that she probably wasn't running at 100 miles per hour, what she ran into was more likely his swiftly moving fist.
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I just cannot believe that her nose got broken just because she ran into his upraised hand. Unless she was running at 100 miles an hour, he had to have used much more force than simply holding his hand up. Given that she probably wasn't running at 100 miles per hour, what she ran into was more likely his swiftly moving fist.
Or the swiftly moving ball of his hand...it probably would have done the same damage as a fist...however, swiftly moving is the key here.
Also, if you are intending to block someone, you go for somewhere on the torso, not on the face.
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Or you step aside or run away, or even...ta-da!...hand her the phone!
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Thanks again for all the input. I was hoping for another set of opinions to compare with the advice of my lawyers, but instead I was tried and convicted by this forum's members.
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The medical report read "Possible nondisplaced fracture. No further treatment needed. Take Advil if necessary." She got a bloody nose. For those saying I didn't give her the phone or took it away from her, they are wrong. I picked it up and when I looked up she was running towards me. The incident lasted less than a second. I am confident on what had happened and how it will go in court. Her statement reads exactly the way I described it. She did not press charges against me. She went to the ER for the bloody nose and they called the sheriff. The deputy filed the charges, because he said they have a 100% arrest mandate for all instances like this. My question was about the after effects, the changing of the story, and the demand for money.
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You can raise your hand to cover your face in order to block an oncoming attack without thinking twice about it. If anything, I'd consider it a normal reaction to someone who sees someone else coming at them with an obvious intention to hurt.
To automatically discount that possibility is, in my opinion, getting close to jumping down a very slippery slope. If you're trained or otherwise have the presence of mind to block the torso rather than your face when a screaming banshee is on the attack, well done - you're a better person than I.
And before I get jumped on, I am NOT saying that this guy is guilty, not guilty, acted appropriately, inappropriately, deliberately attacked her in response, or not - it's simply that the statement of "intending to block equals going for the torso, not the face" which fails miserably in my opinion.
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You can raise your hand to cover your face in order to block an oncoming attack without thinking twice about it. If anything, I'd consider it a normal reaction to someone who sees someone else coming at them with an obvious intention to hurt.
To automatically discount that possibility is, in my opinion, getting close to jumping down a very slippery slope. If you're trained or otherwise have the presence of mind to block the torso rather than your face when a screaming banshee is on the attack, well done - you're a better person than I.
And before I get jumped on, I am NOT saying that this guy is guilty, not guilty, acted appropriately, inappropriately, deliberately attacked her in response, or not - it's simply that the statement of "intending to block equals going for the torso, not the face" which fails miserably in my opinion.
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I put up my hand to block her. She bounced off of me and got a bloody nose.
I have absolutely no idea if he is in the wrong or in the right.
However, all I know is that in the three times in my lifetime that I have been attacked by a screaming banshee is that my instincts were to throw my hands in front of my face, turn sideways and tuck up my shoulder. (the first time was an embarrassing moment as a teen between me and my sister)
Heck, I had the same reaction when a gas stove blew up in my face when I was in my twenties.
Again, I am not saying the OP is automatically the bad guy here. I am saying that he is going to have a hard time beating the DV rap, because she was bloodied and went to the ER, and he obviously had no documented injuries...and because his reaction could be viewed as offensive rather than defensive...particularly since he went for her phone rather than just leaving it alone.
Seriously...I watch all kinds of young people these days get absolutely RIDICULOUS about their phones...ridiculous about getting their hands on their partner's phones or ridiculous about keeping their phones away from their partner.
I am also saying that if a divorce was pending or about to start, that he is also going to have a hard time proving extortion.
He NEEDS a good attorney and not advice from an internet forum.