Charges of Domestic Assault and Battery and Strangulation and Intimidation of a Witness Against Store Owner Dismissed

The defendant is a store owner who lives out of state. In January of this year was in Massachusetts visiting his girlfriend. According to the girlfriend, he had been acting in a very strange, almost psychotic manner for several weeks. On this day of this incident this behavior repeated itself and the woman told our client to leave her home. He refused and went to sleep. She woke him up. This caused him to get enraged. He threw her down on the ground, threw her phone against a wall, breaking and put his hands over her mouth to get her to stop screaming. Our client also threatened to kill the woman. She freed herself and ran to a neighbor for help. She was bloodied and crying uncontrollably. The police tried to locate our client. Apparently he had left Massachusetts to return to his native state. At that time our office was hired to represent the man. We convinced the magistrate not to issue a warrant but rather to permit him to self surrender. When he did, our office was with him and, after being charged with domestic assault and battery, G.L. c. 265 section 13M, intimidation of a witness, G.L. c 268 section 13B and suffocation and strangulation, G.L. c 265 section 15D we had him released on personal recognizance. Today, we succeeded in getting all charges dismissed.

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