Then to be blunt he is a fool for refusing a public defender when he qualifies for one. Public defenders are lawyers and will know the law and procedure far better than he does. Even as overworked as some Illinois public defenders are he is still better off with help from an attorney then trying to handle this matter on his own when he has very little knowledge of the law or how the criminal process works.
Just based on that? No. The fact that they might have gotten friendly again months later does not mean that he did not commit the alleged crime. After all, victims of domestic violence often return to their abusers after they have been attacked. But that fact does not undo the crime the attacker committed. People get convicted of domestic violence despite the fact that their victims made up with them for that very reason: making up does not undo what the attacker did. Same principle here. If that’s what he is relying on for his defense, he’s in trouble. He really needs a lawyer.

