George Zimmerman arrested for suspected domestic assault

The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office in Florida has reported that 31-year-old George Michael Zimmerman has been arrested on Friday, January 9, according to cnn.com. According to Judge John Galluzo, Zimmerman allegedly threw the wine bottle at the then-girlfriend and broke her cellphone. The arrest was made after police pulled over his girlfriend for a minor...

Criminal Defense

June 5th, 2014

Mattoon man plead guilty to domestic battery, other charges dismissed

Twenty-four-year-old Mark Currie plead guilty on May 23 to domestic battery charges, the Journal Gazette & Times-Courier reported. Currie, a Mattoon, Illinois local, hit a woman in April at the Super 8 motel on McFall Road. The charge became a felony because Currie had an outstanding domestic battery conviction in Macon County. He was sentenced to three...

Criminal Defense

December 15th, 2013

Aron Ralston in jail for suspicion of domestic violence

Thirty-eight-year-old Aron Ralston, the man whose inspiring story of cutting his right forearm off to save his life after being caught by a boulder in a Utah canyon, prompting the movie 127 Hours, has been incarcerated in the Denver County jail since the night of Saturday, December 7 on suspicion of domestic violence. A Denver Police Department...

Criminal Defense

July 9th, 2013

50 Cent says he didn’t attack ex-girlfriend

Thirty-seven-year-old Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is facing five criminal charges – one count of domestic violence and four counts of vandalism – for allegedly attacking an ex-girlfriend and causing damage to her home during an argument in Los Angeles on June 23. He was not arrested for said charges, according to report from CNN, until...