Hi,
OC, California
I‘d really appreciate some help with situation.
I was recently arrested along side two of my brothers. One of my brothers was arrested and I don’t know what exactly he was charged with. Maybe you would know, he’s bi-polar and flashed a knife at police officers (suicide by police), it wasn’t assault, I know that much. My other brother was charged with assault. I was also charged with assault. Ok. Know bare with me here. My brother that was charged with assault got into a fight in our own back yard with a neighbor of ours. I was in my room asleep, went outside and tried to separate the two. There was a lot shoving and pushing from both my brother and my neighbor. My neighbor was hit by my brother in the forehead and opened up a 2 inch cut. My neighbor then went next door and called the police. The police arrived about 10 minutes later, and found my OTHER brother (bi-polar) with a knife outside in the street and arrested him on the spot. My neighbor pressed charges on both of us, saying we assaulted him with a knife. The same knife that my brother had in the street. Which was not true. Here are my two questions. (1) Is there any way the prosecution can prove that I assaulted my neighbor when in fact I was trying to separate what I thought was a fight. By the way, there was no witness. (2) Can the prosecution prove that my brother had knife in the fight?