What is the name of your state? Arkansas
Ok...I posted about a month ago about a "friend" of mine that no longer acted like a friend and wanted to treat me like his grilfriend. Except, I'm married and he is 28 years older than me. I knida put up with his pleadings for more for a while...but they turned into anger towards me and resentment. Kept getting numerous phone calls and text messages from him, wanting to know where I was...and the usual jealous boyfriend stuff.
I had decided to end the friendship. This is when the harrassment excalated to the point that we got into a physical fight. I'm not really sure how it happened. When that was over...we agreed to give each other space. After a week...the harassment continued and excalated even more. Now he was waiting in parking lots nearby where I drove home. Finally...he showed up at my place of employment and caused a scene. My employerer urged me to file harrassment charges...and so I did.
It's been about a month since those charges were filed. He kept trying to contact me for a week or two after that...then stopped. Just today, I received this email from him:
"Well, I got your little suprise in the mail today. I really am shocked that you would really want me arrested. I had just about written you off as a bad experience. If you want to go through with this I will have to start protecting myself. I'm going to Paragould tommorrow to the police station to be arrrested. Then I will have no choice but to have you arrested on assault charges. Then we will all go to court and make everything that has ever happened between us public. If you've done this, there is no telling what you have said about me to other people. I will be my responsiblity to set the record straight. If you want all this mess to stop, I recommend you get those charges dropped."
Okay...so I was stupid and young and got involved with him three years ago. For some reason he thinks this justifies him as being innocent. He also thinks that no one else knows what happened. He's wrong.
I am now 22 and he is 50.
My question is...can he really have me arrested? Wouldn't it look kind of suspicious to wait a whole month and a half before filing those charges? Especially since I filed my charges first?
What would this look like to a judge? Should I drop the charges?
Ok...I posted about a month ago about a "friend" of mine that no longer acted like a friend and wanted to treat me like his grilfriend. Except, I'm married and he is 28 years older than me. I knida put up with his pleadings for more for a while...but they turned into anger towards me and resentment. Kept getting numerous phone calls and text messages from him, wanting to know where I was...and the usual jealous boyfriend stuff.
I had decided to end the friendship. This is when the harrassment excalated to the point that we got into a physical fight. I'm not really sure how it happened. When that was over...we agreed to give each other space. After a week...the harassment continued and excalated even more. Now he was waiting in parking lots nearby where I drove home. Finally...he showed up at my place of employment and caused a scene. My employerer urged me to file harrassment charges...and so I did.
It's been about a month since those charges were filed. He kept trying to contact me for a week or two after that...then stopped. Just today, I received this email from him:
"Well, I got your little suprise in the mail today. I really am shocked that you would really want me arrested. I had just about written you off as a bad experience. If you want to go through with this I will have to start protecting myself. I'm going to Paragould tommorrow to the police station to be arrrested. Then I will have no choice but to have you arrested on assault charges. Then we will all go to court and make everything that has ever happened between us public. If you've done this, there is no telling what you have said about me to other people. I will be my responsiblity to set the record straight. If you want all this mess to stop, I recommend you get those charges dropped."
Okay...so I was stupid and young and got involved with him three years ago. For some reason he thinks this justifies him as being innocent. He also thinks that no one else knows what happened. He's wrong.
I am now 22 and he is 50.
My question is...can he really have me arrested? Wouldn't it look kind of suspicious to wait a whole month and a half before filing those charges? Especially since I filed my charges first?
What would this look like to a judge? Should I drop the charges?