Our client is an elderly man with multiple sclerosis who was generously providing shelter to a woman he was not related to. Due to his chronic illness and a car accident in the past, the man relies on a walker and, occasionally, uses crutches to get around inside his home.
The woman staying with him had a history of alcoholism and left the house in order to go to rehab. After 90 days, our client assumed the woman had left for good. So he packed up her possessions and put them in the garage.
Eventually, the woman left rehab and came back to the house. After two days, she had gotten drunk and started a fight with the homeowner. He asked her to leave the house, but she refused to leave and began screaming and fighting with him. He followed her using his crutches, asking her to please leave his home.
Eventually, he called the police to get help in making the drunk woman leave his home. When the police arrived, they listened to the situation, and he showed them a video of what had been happening, but the police accused him of following her aggressively and chasing her throughout the house.
He was already on a deferred judgment from a prior altercation with the woman, so the police arrested him for harassment.
So the poor man gets charged with domestic violence and is told that he has to let the woman live there, and they give him a no-contact order, telling him that he has to “vacate her domicile.” On top of this, he was told his deferred judgment from the previous case would be revoked.
Krizman Law got involved in the case and explained to the judge how ridiculous it was since she didn’t even live in the house. She had been in a rehab facility for 90 days and then had just been back in his house for two days.
We argued that the legal system was now enabling her to become a squatter in his home. Unfortunately, this whole mess, which upended the life of a kind elderly man with serious disabilities, took months to resolve and cost him many thousands of dollars.
Krizman Law worked hard to get as much video footage as possible, which we shared with the judge to show that the police clearly got it wrong and that our client was not screaming or chasing the woman and wasn’t even using profanity; he was simply saying “Please get out of my house; this isn’t your home.”
In the end, the case was dismissed, and the client’s record was sealed.
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