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  1. #1
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    Default When Should You Try to Drop Battery Charges

    My question involves criminal law for the state of: IL

    My background:
    No criminal record
    Student
    Works 8-5 mon-fri
    26 years old 230 pounds (pudgy, but athletic and strong)

    Others involved:
    Landlord's husband (70 years old+, retired, drinks all day, 170 pounds or so)
    Roommate 1 (40ish? 240 pounds, OTR trucker, hangs out with landlord's husband and brother all other times, brother to roommate 2)
    Roommate 2 (40ish? 180 pounds, does not work, brother to roommate 1, hangs out only with his brother and/or landlord's husband)

    My landlord's husband and roommate 1 assaulted me. The only people present were roommate 1, roommate 2, the landlord's husband, and me. I called the police and explained my side, and roommates 1, roommates 2, and my landlord's husband explained their version of the event. The only injuries were my bloody nose. No one else was hurt or injured or sought medical treatment. The police charged the husband's landlord with battery and arrested him. Roommate 1, roommate 2, and the landlord are best friends so roommate 1 and 2 are willing to lie to the benefit of the landlord's husband when it comes to trail or whatever. The arresting officers witnessed that my landlord was taunting in-front of them, he even hit me on the side of the head with an open palm.

    The problem:
    I don't have any witnesses.
    My landlord's husband has a friend that works for that specific police department so that friend might have asked the arresting officers to make the police report more neutral.
    I'm currently under DACA.

    Should I drop my complaint? Is it possible for me to end up with a record, even though they don't have any evidence of harm or injury? How should I proceed from here?

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    Default Re: My Landlord's Husband Got Charged with Battery

    I can't tell if it was the landlord's husband ot the husband's landlord since you've said both. You don't have the power to drop anything. Your only role now is as the victim/witness. Are you proposing changing your story? An arrest was made because a police officer found probable cause. I wouldn't change my story if I was you. Let the criminal justice system do what it does.

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    Default Re: My Landlord's Husband Got Charged with Battery

    As Jim implies, the criminal charge is not YOU vs. DEFENDANT. It is society that is harmed by criminal activity. The state of Illinois prosecutes on behalf of the "people."

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    Default Re: My Landlord's Husband Got Charged with Battery

    If you didn't want to pursue it then why did you call the police? That will be the question that everyone want to know the answer to if you change your story.

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