單身老貓 & others, please help

I got a A&B c265 §13A(a) charge by the state (Massachusetts) due to a fight with my wife in my lab. It's a kind of misdeamor. But It's really a disaster for us because I was fired by the lab (a very nice and top level job for me) in Harvard due to the fight. My wife has no job. Our green card application is in dangerous (I-485 on pending nearly one year). I was required to go to the court on middle July.
The story is that my wife saw a picture of myself and my daughter (belong to myself and my extra wife). She was angry and tried to destroy the picture. I tried to stop her doing it. Then she started to beat me using a bag with a digital camera, cell phone and others inside. You know I also responed with the beating (but mainly stop her beating my head and back using my front-arm). I was extremely angry (emotionally) because she destroyed the picture. The I dialed 911 (huge mistake I made) and hope the police gave her a warning. Because I did not want to get my wife in real trouble, I just showed a small scratch in the back side of my front-arm (actually I also had a big hurt in the face side of my front-arm) when the police coming. My wife was scared when the police approaching and hide in the woman's bathroom. When two police asked me what happened, another police located my wife in the bathroom and asked her questions. Unfortunately, my wife told the police that I beated her, she was pregnant and worried about the baby, showed the police a red mark in her back and said something others unfavorable to me (partially intentionally, partially due to her poor English). Then, the police with my wife came to me and asked "Did I hit my wife". I responsed "it's she beated me, but we do have some contact". Then, this police arrested me and they gave me the charge. Even the police who transported me to the police dept. told me that I really should not dial 911 because it's always favorable to woman when such things happen between a man and woman. Now, I regret calling the police. My wife regrets saying those to the police. However, we have to deal with the disasater now. We hope that our experience can warn other friends do not dial 911 without THREE thinks.
單身老貓 & other friends, can I ask some questions here?
1. What consequence (except I was fired) could finally be? Will it affect my next job seeking? Will my green card application be denied due to this charge?
2. The case is already in DA's hand. We lost some precious time to minimize the disaster and did not pay enough attention to it when it happened because we were told by the police that I would be fine. My supervisor also told me that I would be fine. We were in panic until I was fired by Harvard. Do you think the case can be dismissed? My wife definitely backs up me to deal with this charge now.
3. How much will it cost for me to hire a layer to deal with such a case in Boston? Is it possible that I can handle it by myself?
4. How long will it take to close the case? How long (at least) will I need to stay in MA for this case? We hope it can be finished ASAP, so that I can move out of MA for my next potential job.

Thank you very much!

所有跟帖： 

• 回複：單身老貓 & others, please help -單身老貓- ♂ (1227 bytes) () 07/02/2007 postreply 06:04:47

• emergency-回複：回複：單身老貓 & others, please help -xie2007- ♂ (463 bytes) () 07/02/2007 postreply 07:40:30

• 回複：回複：單身老貓 & others, please help -xie2007- ♂ (278 bytes) () 07/02/2007 postreply 07:55:53

• 很抱歉老貓在寫上麵的回帖時是有一些小錯誤,請見諒 ! -單身老貓- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/02/2007 postreply 08:00:46

• 回複：很抱歉老貓在寫上麵的回帖時是有一些小錯誤,請見諒 ! -xie2007- ♂ (100 bytes) () 07/02/2007 postreply 08:05:10

• 回複：單身老貓 & others, please help -單身老貓- ♂ (888 bytes) () 07/02/2007 postreply 07:51:40

• 回複：回複：單身老貓 & others, please help -xie2007- ♂ (72 bytes) () 07/02/2007 postreply 08:01:45

• 回複：回複：回複：單身老貓 & others, please help -BADWoman- ♀ (410 bytes) () 07/02/2007 postreply 20:43:48

• [回複：單身老貓 & others, please help] BE STRONG, MAN! -Bodd- ♀ (1989 bytes) () 07/02/2007 postreply 09:44:08

• 回複：[回複：單身老貓 & others, please help] BE STRONG, MAN! -xie2007- ♂ (92 bytes) () 07/02/2007 postreply 10:35:51

• 回複：回複：[回複：單身老貓 & others, please help] BE STRONG, MAN! -Bodd- ♀ (204 bytes) () 07/02/2007 postreply 11:05:40

• 回複：回複：回複：[回複：單身老貓 & others, please help] BE STRONG, MAN! -xie2007- ♂ (84 bytes) () 07/02/2007 postreply 11:22:10

• 回複：回複：回複：回複：[回複：單身老貓 & others, please help] BE STRONG, MAN! -Bodd- ♀ (931 bytes) () 07/02/2007 postreply 12:11:19

• Bodd, Thank you very much indeed! -xie2007- ♂ (275 bytes) () 07/02/2007 postreply 13:01:45

• 回複：Bodd, Thank you very much indeed! -Bodd- ♀ (387 bytes) () 07/02/2007 postreply 14:30:07

• 回複：回複：Bodd, Thank you very much indeed! -xie2007- ♂ (34 bytes) () 07/02/2007 postreply 15:02:33

• I do believe what Bodde said will help a lot. Good lucky -JanSnow- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/03/2007 postreply 15:32:35