Criminal Law Blog
March 28, 2008
There Are Two Sides To Every Story
This is what happens when policemen take the word of a bouncer and won’t listen to witnesses.
Here is the long story short: the police walk up and see my client on top of a bouncer, punching him in the face. Now, of course the police have to stop the fight. That’s their job.
But it is also the police’s job to listen to people who know something about what happened before they arrived. This particular time, they didn’t.
Here is what the police wrote in their Probable Cause Affidavit. They saw a fight. They stopped it. They talked to the bouncer who gave his side.
Now for the rest of the story. The bouncers started it. They had a good old time laughing about how they beat the dickens out of MC.
The prosecutor saw the statements taken in my investigation and did the right thing. The case was dismissed.