Charge of Domestic Assault and Battery Against CPA Does Not Issue After Clerk Magistrate Hearing

Our client is a successful CPA who lives in a posh Boston suburb. She and her former boyfriend shared custody of a dog they owned for several years. The arrangement was for the two to meet at the former boyfriend’s place of employment each week to exchange custody of the dog. In the late spring of this year while attempting to make the exchange our client and the former boyfriend got into an argument. The argument escalated and our client was accused of knocking a cup of coffee out of the complaining witness’s hand. The police investigated this incident during which time our client admitted to the accusations.  she then received a summons for a clerk magistrate hearing charging her with domestic assault and battery in violation of G.L. c. 265 section 13M.  attorney Stephen Neyman was hired. Today after a clerk magistrate hearing the clerk declined to issue the criminal complaint against our client.

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