Pretrial Probation for Professor Charged With Domestic Assault and Battery on a Pregnant Person

Our client is a college professor. He is married with one child and another on the way. In November of 2023 police were called to his home by his wife. They arrived to find her barricaded in her bathroom. She told the police that following a heated argument her husband, the defendant, struck her with a bag. She reported that he had previously punched her in the mouth knocking out one of her teeth. The woman also told the police that she was pregnant, thereby prompting charges of assaulting a pregnant woman, a felony in Massachusetts. Attorney Neyman was hired to represent the man who was charged with assault and battery on a pregnant person, G.L. c. 265 section 13A, assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, G.L. c. 265 section 15A and domestic assault and battery, G.L. c. 265 section 13M. Two of those charges are felonies in Massachusetts. Today, we prevailed on the district attorney’s office to agree to pretrial probation under G.L. c. 276 section 87. All charges will be dismissed provided our client successfully completes a domestic partner intervention program.

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