Harassment of the Accused by a Witness

Put "domestic violence help, your city, state" in google. Call them, explain the situation and ask for counseling and resources for food, utility and rental assistance and assistance finding a job. Also ask about possible legal assistance available for help filing for divorce. Can your family or friends send you money to move back home ?

Gather your important documents. Marriage licenses, social security card, etc.

Did you file police reports when he physically abused you ? Did you have to seek medical treatment?

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Quoting TJClay2529

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Husband came home saying if I leave the state they will drop the charges. Isnt that bribery?

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Quoting PayrolGuy

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Actually it would be extortion....

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It's not bribery or extortion. In the unlikely even that the prosecutor told a defendant, "If your spouse, the victim, doesn't show up in court we'll drop the charges", that would simply be an expression that the prosecutor does not want to continue to try to prosecute a case where the alleged victim is choosing not to cooperate. If the victim has been served with a subpoena there would be a possibility of a bench warrant, but the court is unlikely to maintain an open warrant or try to hold the victim in contempt if the case has in fact been dismissed.

The best way for a victim to find out what a prosecutor is thinking about a case is to speak to the prosecutor.

The OP made no mention that the prosecutor was in anyway involved in the offer to "drop charges" hence the only way the OP's husband would have to do so is withhold testimony or do something else to get the prosecutor to do so. To offer to do that in exchange for her leaving could be considered extortion.

Assuming the husband is as big a jerk as the OP makes him out to be it wouldn't surprise me if the husband is simply lying about the charges being dropped and if the OP fails to show up for the court date you have a failure to appear.