I Fought The Law - Part 2
I Fought The Law - Part 1 is here, it will make more sense to read that post first.
As a non-violent pacifist who is proud, I understand that its hard to back down, so I decided to make an offer(via my very excellent lawyer). I would back down, completely walk away. I would not press charges against the officer for assault, and not sue anyone(and everyone), in exchange, they would drop everything and clear my record.
The court date was originally set for September 9th, but for a variety of reasons, it was moved to today. October 7th. On Monday, October 5th, we met with the lawyer at the restaurant where The Incident occurred. At this point, the deal was still up in the air. If we went to court, of course, no deal, and assuming we won, I would have done all that I could. However, our trip to the restaurant revealed that they had a surveillance camera.
As of today, I don't know whether a tape exists, or what was on it if it did exist.
As of today, my record is expunged. This "never happened"(from a legal/background check standpoint). All charges are dropped. No one is going to sue anyone or press any charges against anyone.
This is excellent news. I am a free man. Cleared of everything.
Are there more details? Yeah, lots. Probably even ones I will never know. I don't know whether I should post this publicly. I'm not under any confidentiality agreements. My plan is to move on, let this be the past, and not look back. For several of you, maybe this post makes more questions than it answers. Anyway, many people have been extremely supportive, and lots of people were going to testify as character witnesses and witnesses to the incident.
I would probably like to write down a more coherent version of this, and maybe I shouldn't post this publicly, but its done, and I can be open with everyone publicly in a way I couldn't prior to today.
As a non-violent pacifist who is proud, I understand that its hard to back down, so I decided to make an offer(via my very excellent lawyer). I would back down, completely walk away. I would not press charges against the officer for assault, and not sue anyone(and everyone), in exchange, they would drop everything and clear my record.
The court date was originally set for September 9th, but for a variety of reasons, it was moved to today. October 7th. On Monday, October 5th, we met with the lawyer at the restaurant where The Incident occurred. At this point, the deal was still up in the air. If we went to court, of course, no deal, and assuming we won, I would have done all that I could. However, our trip to the restaurant revealed that they had a surveillance camera.
As of today, I don't know whether a tape exists, or what was on it if it did exist.
As of today, my record is expunged. This "never happened"(from a legal/background check standpoint). All charges are dropped. No one is going to sue anyone or press any charges against anyone.
This is excellent news. I am a free man. Cleared of everything.
Are there more details? Yeah, lots. Probably even ones I will never know. I don't know whether I should post this publicly. I'm not under any confidentiality agreements. My plan is to move on, let this be the past, and not look back. For several of you, maybe this post makes more questions than it answers. Anyway, many people have been extremely supportive, and lots of people were going to testify as character witnesses and witnesses to the incident.
I would probably like to write down a more coherent version of this, and maybe I shouldn't post this publicly, but its done, and I can be open with everyone publicly in a way I couldn't prior to today.