Sometimes victims want to "drop the charges"
As a criminal defense attorney, I receive a lot of calls from alleged victims who say they want to drop the charges. More often than not, these are domestic violence cases (or "DV" for short). Perhaps it is from representations in television and movies, but many people seem to believe that if they tell the police or prosecutor that they want to "drop the charges" then the case will go away. The truth is a bit more complicated. Although most (though not all) DV cases require a