Charges of Domestic Assault and Battery Against Accountant Dismissed

In May of 2019 police responded to a call for a domestic disturbance in a Boston suburb. They arrived to find a man with scratches on his face and neck and red marks all over his body. He told the police that he caught his wife cheating on him and that when he confronted her with this information she became violent. The man had a video recording of the assault. He was the one who made the 911 call as well. Notwithstanding the woman’s representations the 911 call coupled with the video footage convinced the police to arrest the woman and charge her with domestic assault and battery under G.L. c. 265 section 13M. Attorney Neyman was immediately retained. The information our office had convinced us to recommend that our client file a cross complaint. She did so under G.L. c. 218 section 35A and after a clerk magistrate hearing the cross complaint application was allowed and domestic assault and battery charges against the complainant issued. We ultimately scheduled the case for trial. Today, both our client and the “victim” used their 5th Amendment and marital privileges and the complaint was dismissed.

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