08-28-2020, 11:28 AM
(08-28-2020, 11:18 AM)Sled21 Wrote: And the fact that officers are REQUIRED by law to arrest in domestic assaults, whether the victim wants to prosecute or not. Not so with run of the mill assaults from fights. If a regular assault victim wants to drop charges or refuse to press charges, they can. In the domestic cases, that is not the case.
In domestics officers are only required to arrest if they see some evidence of an assault. They are not required to arrest based on nothing other than a claim with no visible evidence.
And the victim of an assault can not end a case just because they don't want to. I have had cases where the DAs have felt that the victim is not cooperating out of fear or due to intimidation.. In those cases the state can still prosecute if they want to. It is rare but it does happen.
