I really appreciate the support. This is incredibly hard to go through. Its also very hard on the kids. My two youngest daughters are adopted and the older one, who is 12, has a great fear of losing her daddy. The 4 youngest kids spent a lot of last week fighting, much more than normal. They have been better since the hearing. The stress on my wife is great too, however, we have the kind of marriage where adversity just makes us closer.
Part of what they are doing is bumping it up to a felony to get me to plea bargain it down to a misdemeanor. If I do that, I will lose a civil suit against me for sure.
I also now have medical reports as of yesterday. That is one of the advantages of being able to deal with the courts without an attorney, they have to tell you what is going on. There is nowhere in the medical reports where the doctors conclude I made his pre-existing condition worse, only that he claims I did. I won't say more out of fear that I may violate some confidentiality law. Once I file those medical reports with the court they will be available to all. My wife is a registered nurse and she was shaking angry when she read the medical reports.
Another thing, under Washington state law, when you are charged with assault and found not guilty by reason of self defense at trial, you can apply to have all of your costs reimbursed by the state. This not only includes attorney fees, but all other costs, including lost time.
They say never to attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity. However, this is looking more and more like a malicious prosecution all the time. I don't get it, I actually supported the new prosecutor in the election last year and he knows it. If the court doesn't appoint an attorney for me, I plan to hire his opponent to represent me at trial, if it gets that far, which I don't think is real likely based on the previous and especially the new evidence.
Thanks everyone, Don
