Domestic Violence Acquittals! Penal Code sections 273.5 and 245(a)
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By
Steve Escovar
I completed a Jury Trial in the Alhambra Courthouse where my client was
charged with committing Domestic Violence against his wife. He was charged
with violations of Penal Code sections 273.5 and 245(a). He and his wife
had been in several arguments that culminated in a physical altercation.
At the end of the incident, she was injured and she was hospitalized with
a broken clavicle. She claimed that he had attacked her in anger. At trial
we proved to the jury, that, in fact, she charged aggressively at him
and that he simple deflected her attack by shoving her. The shove caused
her to fall and break her clavicle. However, his behavior was entirely
in Self Defense. The jury agreed, NOT GUILTY on both counts! The truth
prevailed, justice was served.
