{"id":3464,"date":"2013-05-27T19:43:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T19:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/how-drop-domestic-violence-charges-part-iii\/"},"modified":"2020-10-30T20:47:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:47:12","slug":"how-drop-domestic-violence-charges-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/how-drop-domestic-violence-charges-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Drop Domestic Violence Charges Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Dropping Domestic Violence Charges Part III\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southerncaliforniacriminalattorney.com\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flockoflegals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/errol_cook_esq2.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-352\" alt=\"errol_cook,_esq2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flockoflegals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/errol_cook_esq2.bmp\" \/><\/a>Dropping Domestic Violence Charges:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some alleged victims of domestic violence, whether it be male or female, may use the threat of calling the police as a means of controlling their partner and relationship.\u00a0 Whenever the police are used as a vehicle to enforce control in a romantic relationship, then it is time to leave&#8230;.and quickly.\u00a0 Many defendants find themselves in jail and in disbelief not understanding how a person who claims to love them can also put them in jail on fabricated charges.\u00a0\u00a0 The alleged victim may also promise to &#8220;drop the charges&#8221; if the defendant agrees to certain conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, the police will arrest someone and let the courts sort it out.\u00a0 This may mean spending a weekend in jail and away from your children and job only to be brought to court to be arraigned.\u00a0 As a general rule, judges must impose a restraining order at your first court date.\u00a0 That restraining order can be as mild as a &#8220;No Violent Contact&#8221; restraining order to a draconian &#8220;No Contact&#8221; restraining order.\u00a0 Although the alleged victim may request that the charges be dropped, this is unlikely at the arraignment.\u00a0 Contacting an experienced domestic violence attorney is critical.<\/p>\n<p>Errol Cook, Esq.<\/p>\n<p>(877) 737-2004<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dropping Domestic Violence Charges: Some alleged victims of domestic violence, whether it be male or female, may use the threat of calling the police as a means of controlling their partner and relationship.\u00a0 Whenever the police are used as a vehicle to enforce control in a romantic relationship, then it is time to leave&#8230;.and quickly.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,126],"tags":[508,6,509,510,511,512,513,514,56,86],"class_list":["post-3464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-criminal-law-blog","category-california-restraining-order-blog","tag-best-domestic-violence-defense","tag-criminal-law","tag-domestic-violence-dismissal","tag-domestic-violence-expert","tag-domestic-violence-lawyer","tag-domestic-violence-trial-lawyer","tag-dropping-criminal-charges","tag-dropping-domestic-violence-charges","tag-immigration","tag-misdemeanor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5408,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions\/5408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}