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AGO agrees to dismiss assault case vs woman
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Posted on Dec 08 2004
The Attorney General’s Office has agreed to dismiss with finality the criminal charges against a woman in a case initiated by her former boyfriend.
The lawyer of Yuki Higuchi Le, who was charged with three counts of assault and battery and disturbing the peace, disclosed this development in a media release, lauding the AGO for reinvestigating the incident for which the woman was accused of committing the offenses.
Lawyer Robert O’Connor said the AGO agreed to the case’s dismissal after a further review of the incident. He said there was no evidence to support the criminal charges against Le.
O’Connor said police failed to ask Le about what transpired at the residence of one Manuel Alvarez, when she was actually the one who called for assistance.
Narrating Le’s version of what happened, O’Connor said the woman went to Alvarez’s residence earlier this year to ask the latter to return her computer. O’Connor said Le and Alvarez got into a physical altercation, prompting the woman to call the police.
“When the police arrived, they only interviewed Alvarez, ignoring Yuki Higuchi Le, and based only on Alvarez’s version of the events, arrested Yuki Higuchi Le,” O’Connor said.
“This was a nightmare for me,” the media release quoted Le as saying. “How could something like that happen where the police don’t even bother to interview the victim who calls for their help and instead listens only to the attacker? I am very happy the Attorney General reinvestigated the situation and exonerated me.”
