Charges of Assault and Battery to be Dismissed

The defendant is a college student with respectable grades attending a local university. On March 22, 2018 he was attending a party at the school and drinking some beer. He and several friends decided to leave the party and head towards their dorm room. While walking across campus they encountered another group. For reasons unexplained in the police report the groups exchanged words. One of the members of the defendant’s group became engaged in a fist fight. The groups did not know one another. Subsequently, members of both groups engage on another in a fight. Most of the incident was caught on security videotape. One of the victims lost his teeth in the fight. Our client was one of several charged with assault and battery under G.L. c. 265 Section 13A. Attorney Neyman was retained to defend the man. Today, the matter was continued without a finding. If the defendant stays out of trouble the matter will be dismissed and he will have no criminal record.

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