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- A common question we get in domestic violence cases when somebody's charged with a domestic violence crime is can my spouse, my ex, my child, my parent, my brother, whoever was the victim of the domestic violence charge, can they drop the case against me? They don't wanna prosecute me. They understand that this whole situation was blown totally out of proportion. The police came, I got arrested. But now that things have settled down, they wanna drop the charges against me. Can they do that? The answer is really no. They don't have any unilateral authority to do that. They don't have any charging decisions. They don't have any dismissal power. There's no way that they can just go in and voluntarily drop the charges. That's not how our system works. So let's break it down. Let me explain how it does work so you have a better understanding if you've been charged, or your loved one has been charged and you wanna drop the charges against them, here's how it works. So let's say that A and B are two people. They're in a romantic relationship and they get into an argument together. Somebody calls the police on somebody else. Police show up, B gets arrested. So the police are here and they decide to investigate the case, they arrest B. So B is now being charged with some sort of disorderly conduct or assault or trespass or something and they're tacking on a domestic violence designation. So B is arrested by the police. The police then turn the charges over to the prosecutor. This is the prosecutor symbol. It's the prosecutors of the city, of the county, of the superior courts, wherever this case is gonna be filed. Charges are turned over to the prosecutor. Prosecutor reviews the case. Charges are then prosecuted in the court. So we're gonna call this the judge, this is the court. So now all of this is happening. It's going up into this pipeline here. Well now let's say A wants to drop the charges. So A doesn't want to be involved in this. A contributed just as much to the whole altercation as B did, and so A wants to say, all right, I'm gonna go into court, and I'm gonna tell the judge that I want these charges dropped. Well unfortunately it's not gonna do any good. The judge has no legal authority at this stage to take a look at the charges and just dismiss the case. So people will say, people like A, they'll come to our office and they'll say, hey I wanna waive my rights to be considered a victim. I wanna talk to you guys. You're defense lawyers. I wanna help my husband or brother or whatever through the situation, how can I help? I was planning on just going and taking to the judge. Like I said, it's not gonna do any good. The judge doesn't have the authority to just take...