Juries in Oldham County, like bouncers, do not seem to care about guys fighting each other, random or otherwise, if you are out bar hopping and drinking. Let's step back Oldham County, LaGrange, Kentucky and ask ourselves, can you think of any other city, anywhere, where the bars are open until 4:00 a.m. and people don't start going out until 11:00? At least that is the way it was when I went out and I am 50 years old, about the mean age of the Oldham County Juror. The first jury trial I had was knife versus 2x2 club. Knife wins and knife gets indicted for Assault in the First Degree. Knife is acquitted at trial as quickly as they could pick a foreperson. The winner of a fight is 99% chance of being charged. I am guessing at the percentage, but it would be high.
No one should hit a woman. I have involved myself physically in domestic arguments among strangers and it will not happen around me. However, I have had clients tell me that they never hit a the woman they were seeing and they explain it. This is where you have to get to know your clients well. You also have to debunk the myth that if the officers arrest you then you did something wrong. And in domestics, the officers are not leaving unless one of you is coming along. More likely than not, the guy. Sometimes what you did wrong was start seeing the wrong person and the wrong person like to throw up a bunch of shade and drama.
Why domestics are winnable, often.
Well, a fair portion of my clients will describe the female counterpart as, bipolar, 0-60 to breaking stuff in 3 seconds, and unpredictable. This female we will call Psycho.
The officers arrested my client, your brother, your son, your daughter, whomever. Now, when figuring whether the girlfriend/wife or boyfriend/husband did something, you need more than your client to figure it out. Never ask the parents of your client about them until your investigation is over, because they are going to hate whomever they are dating or are married to, anyway.
The Psycho, the female who everyone is related to one, has a mirror image.
The SLICK guy, see definition of PSYCHO above but with a twist. Slick guy will punch a girl, tell stories about how great he is and is probably an only child. But, unlike the PSYCHO who throws the violence onto you, SLICK goes with the flow, throws up all the shade and drama, and when police are called and arrive, his recitation of the facts make sense and the lady goes downtown to the book. SLICK and PSYCHO are easy to defend a case against not only in Emergency Protective Order Hearings, but in criminal trials to acquittal.
Everyone else, between PSYCHO and SLICK are in a grey area and have to be analyzed on a case by case basis.