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    Default Friend Charged with Domestic Violence After Slapping Me in Public

    My question involves criminal law for the state of: California

    I am a man and my friend is a woman. We were having an argument at a public place and she slapped me in the face. A bystander saw it called the police and she was arrested for domestic violence. She was bailed out the next morning and has a court date about a week after the indecent. Apparently when being questioned I told the police she was my girlfriend and we were just messing around. Now I know this was the wrong thing to have said since the charge instead of battery is Domestic Violence.

    Is there a way to get this charge dropped from DV to battery? If so how does this happen?

    Would it be better to take her chances with a plea deal for the DV charge rather than try to have it lessened to Battery?

    What are her chances of spending jail time for this charge?

    She is planning to contact the DA on Monday when it is open and see if she can get some more information regarding the case. Is it too soon to have them review the case since it was just a couple days ago?

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    Default Re: Friend Charged with Dv After Slapping Me in Public

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    Apparently when being questioned I told the police she was my girlfriend and we were just messing around.
    Apparently? Do you mean you don’t know what you told the police? When you lie to the police this is the sort of thing that can happen: it can turn out worse than you think. You are free to contact the prosecutor and tell the prosecutor that she is not your girlfriend, just a friend, and see if that helps at all. But she still committed a battery. She needs a lawyer to represent her on this. Given that there was an independent witness to what occurred, I don’t see this as something that will easily go away.

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    Default Re: Friend Charged with Dv After Slapping Me in Public

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    Apparently? Do you mean you don’t know what you told the police? When you lie to the police this is the sort of thing that can happen: it can turn out worse than you think. You are free to contact the prosecutor and tell the prosecutor that she is not your girlfriend, just a friend, and see if that helps at all. But she still committed a battery. She needs a lawyer to represent her on this. Given that there was an independent witness to what occurred, I don’t see this as something that will easily go away.
    Thank you for your response. At the time of her arrest I was heavily intoxicated and was taken to the drunk tank and cited with public intoxication. I do not remember exactly what I told the police.

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