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Editor: Will Hanlon & Charlie Lambert
Profession: Tampa Defense Attorneys

Category: Domestic Violence

CASE #05-CM-015481; JUDGE: Nick Nazaretian; Date: November 21, 2006

FACTS: The defendant and his wife had a verbal argument outside his home. The victim claimed that our client hit her in the face with a piece of pizza, grabbed her by the throat, and body slammed her to the ground. Shortly after she caught her breath the neighbors helped her into their house. Instead of remianing at her neighbor's she got even more intoxicated and returned to our client's home. The same man she claimed she had thrown her to the ground. She found herself locked out of the home, and when she finally got inside she continued to verbally attack our client. The victim stood in the doorway of the bathroom and refused to allow her husband out. He eventually grabbed her and removed her from the doorway. The victim claimed that our client dragged her around the house by her hair, and bashed her head into the wall in the hallway.

DEFENSE: The only time my client laid his hands on the victim is when she came at him and he was forced to protect himself. In addition, the vicitm drank atleast six drinks contaning alcohol that night which called her credibility into question.

RESULT: The Judge found our client NOT GUILTY of the crime of domestic battery.