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What's up sherbros?
I've never been in trouble for aggravated assault before so I have no experience with dealing with it. But I'm not the one being charged, it's my 19 year old son.
Background: My son has been staying with my mom for the past year BY HIS CHOICE because he was able to get more freedoms for self destructive behavior than he can get in my house. My mother is a piece of shit, just to get that out of the way. My nephew (my sister's son who is 23) also stays there at my mother's house. And all that my mother, my son and my nephew would do is get high and act like there is nothing else to life other than getting high.
So long story short my wife and I went to my mother's house to try to defuse a violent situation and bring my son home (even against his will if we had to). He and my nephew got into it during one of their get high sessions and shit got outta hand big time. The cops were called, my wife is all in the mix to try to keep him calm and my son was out of control. My nephew was in my mother's house when the cops arrived and while they tried to restrain him he tried to break free of their restraint in order to run up into the house to fight my nephew. By him doing that he made a "lunge" towards my wife (his mom) in order to get past her and run up into the house.
So he's being charged with terroristic threats, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and AGGRAVATED ASSAULT because he supposedly made offensive or violent contact with his mom in order to charge past her.
I swear these cops can be something else sometimes.
I'll be getting him an attorney on Monday so we can fight this. The cops advised my wife to file PFAs against our son (which of course she refused to do) and they advised her to press assault charges on him as well (which she also refused to do). From what I understand the DA can still pursue this charge even if the so called victim is not interested in pursuing it.
How many of y'all ever dealt with this kind of situation before? What do you know about the success rate of these charges either being dropped, dismissed or at least reduced? I feel that there is a strong lack of evidence for this charge due to many things (high on an illegal substance at the time, no intent to do harm to his mother, did not attack his mother and absolutely no harm done to his mother at all). And I wonder if the cops are intending to have the state charge him with first degree aggravated assault due to his flailing about while being restrained and resisting arrest and claiming assault on a police officer.
By the way, my son has no priors. This is his first offense. I'm hoping for the best.
I've never been in trouble for aggravated assault before so I have no experience with dealing with it. But I'm not the one being charged, it's my 19 year old son.
Background: My son has been staying with my mom for the past year BY HIS CHOICE because he was able to get more freedoms for self destructive behavior than he can get in my house. My mother is a piece of shit, just to get that out of the way. My nephew (my sister's son who is 23) also stays there at my mother's house. And all that my mother, my son and my nephew would do is get high and act like there is nothing else to life other than getting high.
So long story short my wife and I went to my mother's house to try to defuse a violent situation and bring my son home (even against his will if we had to). He and my nephew got into it during one of their get high sessions and shit got outta hand big time. The cops were called, my wife is all in the mix to try to keep him calm and my son was out of control. My nephew was in my mother's house when the cops arrived and while they tried to restrain him he tried to break free of their restraint in order to run up into the house to fight my nephew. By him doing that he made a "lunge" towards my wife (his mom) in order to get past her and run up into the house.
So he's being charged with terroristic threats, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and AGGRAVATED ASSAULT because he supposedly made offensive or violent contact with his mom in order to charge past her.
I swear these cops can be something else sometimes.I'll be getting him an attorney on Monday so we can fight this. The cops advised my wife to file PFAs against our son (which of course she refused to do) and they advised her to press assault charges on him as well (which she also refused to do). From what I understand the DA can still pursue this charge even if the so called victim is not interested in pursuing it.
How many of y'all ever dealt with this kind of situation before? What do you know about the success rate of these charges either being dropped, dismissed or at least reduced? I feel that there is a strong lack of evidence for this charge due to many things (high on an illegal substance at the time, no intent to do harm to his mother, did not attack his mother and absolutely no harm done to his mother at all). And I wonder if the cops are intending to have the state charge him with first degree aggravated assault due to his flailing about while being restrained and resisting arrest and claiming assault on a police officer.
By the way, my son has no priors. This is his first offense. I'm hoping for the best.
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