She was on The Tonight Show recently, and it got me wondering why she was never prosecuted. It’s almost like we reward physical assault. She attacked her sister’s husband Jay-Z and it was all caught on tape. You would think she would be in jail, but instead she got rewarded with more public recognition and now a singing career! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
It’s almost like we have two classes of people, those who can get away with physical assault and those who would be prosecuted and jailed and lose their career.
I will say that my experience with New Jersey law is in line with the quote about New York law. It’s a misdemeanor assault. It would be up to Mr Carter to come forward and sign a complaint. Just because she is related to his wife does not make it a domestic violence situation.
Now if it had been his wife committing the assault then it would fall under domestic violence statutes. Here it would only be a mandatory arrest if there were signs of injury but the chances of her being charged would be much higher.
It has nothing to do with there being two classes of people. If it happened to the OP in the exact same way the outcome would be the same.
Here’s the thing, plenty of people have been charged when even their victim opposed the prosecution. Example might be Dominick form NY1 or State Senator Hiren (he was ultimately acquitted.)
You are going to have to do better than that. People here aren’t going to magically know who you are talking about or if the situations are analogous. Those don’t sound like national stories we are supposed to know about.
I did you a favor. I did look it up. You probably have the name wrong for the Senator. As for the other person you mention I’m assuming you mean Dominic Carter.
Completely different situation. That was a domestic assault with visible injuries. Mandatory arrest and prosecution in most states. You can’t compare domestic violence with cases that don’t fall under domestic violence statutes. They don’t fall under the same law in most jurisdictions and legally have to be treated differently. I’ll predict your other example is going to wind up being the same.
I think there are different classes of people, although it’s social and not legal classes.
If either the genders or the finances of the two people involved were reversed, it’s likely that the victim would have pressed charges. But it’s tough socially for a man to press charges against a woman for attacking him, and as he wasn’t going to sue her anyway it wasn’t in his interests to play up the story.
Maybe so but that’s not what the OP was about. He wants to know why the cops didn’t arrest her. The answer is because that’s the law. If you want to talk about why JayZ didn’t press charges that’s a whole different issue.
Are you talking about Hiram Montserrate? He was a state senator from New York who slashed his girlfriend’s face with a broken bottle during an argument. She originally cooperated with the police, and then told them it was an accident. But he was charged with felony assault, pretty much because he used a weapon (he was eventually acquitted of that and convicted of misdemeanor assault).
Loach, just a question. Why don’t prosecutors charge on misdemeanor assault without victim cooperation? Any reason? Too difficult to make a case?