My question involves criminal law for the state of: Lake County, Florida.
My son was charged with affray for trying to break up a fight. We were having a bday party at our local park for my mother. 2 guys my son knows were fighting so my son grabbed the bigger one and held him in a head lock just to get him off the smaller guy. I seen this happening so I called cops. When the police arrived the guy my son had in the head lock took off running. Long story short the guy that ran ended up getting tased after battery on law enforcement and etc. My son and I had returned back to the pavilion with the rest of our family members. After about 45mins the cops came to my son and placed him under arrest for affray. In the police report it states During the investigation it was found that my son had in fact engaged in a public fight with the guy that got tased. My son was taken to our local police department and later transported to the county jail. The 1st court hearing the judge had made the statement my son should have never been charged since this didn't happen in the presence of law enforcement. My question is...Is this actually a beatable charge considering he wasn't actually fighting but trying to keep the littler guy from getting really hurt??? My son is 18years old so these are young men not older men. Not that, that really makes a difference.

