Not Guilty Verdict! Defense of Alleged Wife on Husband Assault Prevent Mother From Seeing Her Kids

(Posted with Client’s Enthusiastic Permission)

Not Guilty Verdict!

Victory Formation.☘️

About a year ago a close Catholic priest friend called me about a parishioner getting railroaded.

He very rarely asks me for any favors.

A mid-thirties mom from Bangladesh had been arrested for allegedly assaulting her considerably-older pos husband, and he was expertly using the arrest to keep her from seeing their 7 year-old daughter and as major leverage in the divorce case he filed 2 days after the arrest. (He admitted on cross-examination that the ink was dry on the divorce petition when he called the cops for alleged “assault” and he wanted to get her out of the house).👀

The husband, also from Bangladesh and a U.S. citizen who worked for Microsoft for a very long time, is fluent in English.

My client speaks virtually no English, and has zero criminal history.

A very nice/professional female officer was able to connect with a Bengali interpreter and ask Client what happened but was outranked by the officer getting the husband’s bs sob story.

No visible injuries. None. Not one.

First marriage for Client. 3rd for him.

After arrest for assault, the husband got a 90 day protective order preventing client/wife/mom from going to his/their $1.5 million house, or communicating with him/daughter.

On first day of daughter school, about a week after the assault arrest, my Client texted husband, in Bengali, asking if the daughter needed anything for start of school. No threats or anything mean. Husband calls police, again, and has her arrested, again, for violating the protective order/bond conditions.

Meanwhile, Client, who has no family or friends in this country, is broke. The husband controlled EVERYTHING. She comes from a dirt-poor family in Bangladesh and needed a place to live.

Fortunately, the priest and a few guardian angels put her in touch with some older women from her Bengali village in a distant Dallas suburb, and they have allowed her to sleep on the floor of their tiny apartment the past year.

And she got a $14/hour job as a stocker at Walmart.

Oh, and Client had a total hysterectomy surgery one week prior to the incident after spending 3 days in the hospital post-op. And she was running out of some powerful pain meds.

We started the Collin County assault trial on Wednesday and received the verdict this morning.

I could go on and on about how this was a complete setup, and I’ll describe my cross-examination of the lying, despicable husband later (after a very long nap) , but in 35 years of trial work this result ranks at/near the very top.

It was very, very difficult for me to communicate with my Client. My Bengali is a bit rusty. But she would always just say “I trust you.”

The judge gave us a fair trial and didn’t let the prosecutors bail out the lying “victim.”

The court coordinator was a patient angel who somehow managed to find a Bengali interpreter for the trial and court settings.

And my extraordinary paralegal, Kyndal, put together a dynamite trial notebook and “gently” encouraged me not to get into another physical confrontation in the courtroom with the husband.

(At the pretrial hearing he and a DA investigator decided it was a good time to try to intimidate me when I subpoenaed husband to bring the setup video of the incident to Court-brand new hidden nanny cam.)

Husband didn’t like it when I told him to “buckle up for a judicial reckoning.”

And there is a very very special guardian angel out there that made sure I took this case. She doesn’t want to be identified-but you know who you are.

Peace (through strength and God’s mercy)☘️🙏

Update: State just informed me they would be dismissing the separate pending violation of protective order case.

Full disclosure: I did not lay behind the log on this one. I told the prosecutors what would happen. Hell, the State had burden of proof yet I’m the one that subpoenaed the “key” video evidence. Very risky move. Client trusted me and I trusted her when she told me that she did not hit him. Bet next time a defense attorney does that (never) they will get off the tracks. 😉