Domestic Assault Attorney in Prince William County, Virginia
How do you approach a client whose spouse faces domestic violence charges but does not want to proceed?
How do you approach a client whose spouse faces domestic violence charges but does not want to proceed?
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so unfortunately what we sometimes see
in demestic violence cases is we have a
couple or we have family members or we
have um Partners or or spouses who call
the police and perhaps there’s some sort
of altercation or some encounter between
the parties but often times the police
are called because the parties want to
diffuse the situation they just want the
Poli Poli to come and sort of calm
things down the police come and then
someone is charged and sometimes that’s
against the will of the person of the
other party um sometimes the person who
actually called the police gets charged
and so what we do is you know we can sit
down with each client and figure out the
goals for our client whether that is the
person charged with the crime or whether
that is the person who was the witness
or the uh alleged
victim of the crime and figure out how
best to achieve those goals because it
is not always a
straightforward case of you know someone
is being abused and that person needs to
be prosecuted sometimes these are more
complicated cases and there are gray
areas
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Manassas, VA criminal defense attorney Lili R. O’Connell talks about how she approaches a client whose spouse faces domestic violence charges but does not want to proceed.
