By: Dreadslag

Dreadslag — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:11:08 +0000

Funny, the same thing happened to me years ago. I was hit in the back of the head without warning with a mug. Then I was punched and kicked repeatedly while on the floor.
The bartender shouted to “get out”, and the guy stopped beating me and left. I got up off the floor and was told to get out, so I went home all bloody, beaten, and battered with knuckle bruises all over my forehead.
A few days later my doorbell rings. I answer to find two officers. I figured that maybe they wanted a statement from me descriibing the events of that night, but they weren’t concerned with what had happened. They had come to arrest me ! I went to jail with 3 broken ribs and facial swelling and bruising because the guy who had attacked me had gone to the hospital to treat a broken hand.
My attacker had given a bogus statement to police at the hospial. To save his own butt from a trip to jail i’m sure.
I was never given the opportunity to give police a statement.
Of course I planned to fight this bogus charge of aggravated battery, but could not afford anything better than a public defender to represent me.
On the scheduled court date my attacker who had filed charges against me was a no show. I thought that the nightmare was over, but the prosecutor said he was going to still try the case. My public defender told me that if I didn’t plead guilty that the judge would hold me in jail without bond for up to a year, until my court date arrived. Against every ounce of my being I pled.
We live in a day and age that if someone on the street stabs you, you could end up a felon for assaultiing a knife with your abdomen.
I have been convicted of attacking a fist with my face. I pray that this doesn’t happen to this guy who was attacked.

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By: Dreadslag