Articles Posted in Assault and Battery

Following a New Year’s Eve celebration, a man was walking towards his car when he was approached by an aggressive woman demanding he give her a cigarette. When he refused the woman struck him several times. The man walked away. The woman approached him again and did the same thing. Again, our client walked away.…

A year ago our client got into a fight during which he sustained severe injuries. Witnesses to the dispute all stated that our client approached the other party, reached his hand into the man’s car and struck him several times. The other party got out of the vehicle and a fight commenced. Both individuals were…

In February of this year our client and his roommate got into an argument that turned physical. The roommate ended up pushing our client who responded by punching him in the face. Our client called 911 and for some reason he was charged with assault and battery under G.L. c. 265 section 13A. We ended…

The defendant is a convenience store owner. In October of last year while working the store he stopped a woman who was routinely stealing goods from his store. He did not call the police, instead asking her not to return to the store again. Fearing he was going to report these multiple incidents to the…

After a night of drinking, two groups of men entered a late night pizza place around midnight. Words were exchanged between the groups and a fight ensued. The victim claimed that a co-defendant shoved him into a wall and that another man, our client, followed up by hitting him several times. The victim lost consciousness…

Our client is a local union worker who was in a fight last May. The fight was captured on a surveillance camera. Both our client and the person with whom he was fighting were charged with assault and battery, G.L. c. 265 section 13A. The video was unclear as to who started the fight. Going…

Our client is a firefighter who has been working for a highly populated city for many years. In February of 2022, police were called for a report of a fight alleged to have occurred outside of a home. Independent eyewitnesses told the officers that during an argument our client hit his stepdaughter and her boyfriend.…

In July of 2021, officers from a large city outside of Boston responded to a call for a wellness check. When they got to the location they were told by the defendant’s mother that he was undergoing a mental health episode. The officers confronted the man to try to help. The man lunged at one…

In May of this year a woman entered a police station to make a complaint of an assault and battery involving a former family member. The woman told the police that she drove to our client’s home to pick up her two children. When she got there our client supposedly confronted her in the car…

On December 30, 2021 police in a suburban city responded to a 911 call for a domestic disturbance. The officers met with a witness who claimed to have observed our client severely beat his adult son after an argument over rent. Our client was arrested and charged with assault and battery under G.L. c. 265…