Legal Question in Criminal Law in Massachusetts

: Criminal Harassment

You had better get an attorney. The consequences is a criminal record.

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Re: Criminal Harassment

Your concern is not whether SHE has a case, but rather whether the PROSECUTOR's office has a case. It's up to them to decide whether to pursue this matter if it gets past the magistrate.

The magistrate will hear from your friend and/or a police officer who took a report. The magistrate has 3 options: to issue a criminal complaint and let the matter proceed as a criminal case; NOT to issue the complaint, and the matter ends there; to achieve some sort of middle ground where if there are no future problems for say, 6 months, the case will go away.

An attorney, if you choose to have one, would cross examine the girlfriend if she is there, challenge the credibility of her statements, and argue that no harassment as defined by statute took place. The statute requires three separate incidents. If you get your hands on a police report that was likely filed in this matter, you'd have a preview of what she's likely to say.

Good luck and contact me with questions.