德州檢察官：如果她不想起訴，為什麽我們需要繼續起訴家暴案件？

 

http://www.tdcaa.com/node/7380 

   If there is evidence—pictures, 911 calls, medical records, and/or other witnesses—that would enable us to proceed without the victim’s testimony, or treating her as an adverse witness, we should. The defendant is counting on us to dismiss the case when the victim files an affidavit of non-prosecution. In fact, he is likely pressuring her to do so and promising her anything he thinks will convince her to “drop the charges” against him. If we proceed anyway, the defendant may take a plea—if not before trial, then when the victim responds to the subpoena and shows up at trial. When we proceed in spite of the victim’s initial refusal to cooperate, she has the opportunity to change her mind before the case goes to trial. This often happens when the defendant returns to his old ways and assaults her again or fails to make good on the promises he made in exchange for filing that affidavit.

如果案件有證據-- 圖片，報警錄音，醫療報告和第三者證人... 我們應該繼續起訴.... （盡管受害人現在不同意作證）.... 受害人將有機會在將來庭審前改變主意。這種情況經常發生，當被告故伎重演，或者違反他對受害者做的信誓旦旦的保證。

最後一段，是真正的原因，因為

“下一次受害者可能被殺，下一次夫婦的小孩可能受傷或者致死，下一次受害者可能覺得打死施害者是唯一的出路。... 我們作為法律代表，要向受害者發出一個信號，家庭暴力不僅不可接受，而且還是犯罪。”