Assault & Battery Attorney in Royal Oak, Michigan
What are the biggest challenges you face in defending assault charges?
What are the biggest challenges you face in defending assault charges?
Royal Oak, MI criminal defense lawyer Samuel J. Bennett talks about the specific challenges of handling assault cases.
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the biggest challenges in
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in any assault case as in lots of other
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cases where there is a defendant
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my client and a victim or complainant is
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just that
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is that it is one person versus one
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person there was no other people present
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there’s no video of the incident and it
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is a he said she said he said he said
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she said she said sort of moment
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where you have to attempt to discredit
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the so-called victim or the complaining
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witness so that a judge
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a jury or even a prosecutor prior to a
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trial
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understands that this may not have
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occurred the way that
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that person explained it and that is the
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most prevalent when it comes to domestic
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violence assault cases
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we have a husband and wife or a mom and
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daughter or a dad and son
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getting into an argument and one of them
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calls the police it’s very difficult to
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manage
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the expectations between family members
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because people automatically assume well
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my mom called the police but she doesn’t
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want anything to happen to me so the
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biggest challenge is explaining to my
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client that
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your mom called the police so clearly
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she wanted something to happen now we
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have to try to mitigate
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what might happen domestic violence is
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the biggest challenge when it comes to
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assault and battery cases
