My husband was charged with aggrivated assault on me, how can I drop the charges?

A lot depends of which county you are in, and therefore who happens to be your ADA. But, unfortunately, the ADA could threaten to charge you with "Giving False Information to Police" if you try to change your official statement. In some counties, they will accept your story and dismiss the charges or at least reduce the charges. It may seem unfair, but this attitude was adopted originally to protect women from predatory men who would threaten women to change their story. By making it difficult for a woman to change her story, then it offers more protection to a woman against being threatened to change her story. Unfortunately, this attitude has back-fired on more of my male clients than it has protected the woman involved. Probably 90 percent of the time, the woman will tell me she was mad and exaggerated her story to police. I wish I could tell you there was a definitive way for you to fix the situation, but unfortunately you will probably have to go through your husband's attorney and let him or her handle the situation. By law you don't have to testify, but also under the law, if you refuse to testify they can have the police officer who took your statement to testify. This is where the particular ADA comes in - some will not bother with the case if you won't cooperate and some will push the situation. I don't know if you have a private attorney or a public defender, but you should let them approach the DA's office - the ADA will only try to intimidate you.

This is a very common thing people do.Get upset call the cop and then things are pretty much out of your control. You cannot withdraw a prosecution. You can change your statement but will not be considered credible. Jury will be instructed about such common occurrences in domestic violence cases. I suggest that you talk to an attorney in confidential settings to discuss your options.

Retain a good lawyer to handle the case and get justice for your husband who you falsely accused with perjury (or you are now lying to help him, both are possible so tell your lawyer the truth). You should not have lied or made a "statement" telling the police or prosecutor that you lied as that is a serious crime and you could go to jail. You are not sophisticated or you would not have done anything without talking to a lawyer, and not his lawyer as he will try to get you to change your story to help your husband even if it gets you arrested potentially. Tell the lawyer the truth so he can advise you and stop trying to manipulate the criminal justice system with perjury.

Doesn't work like that my dear. Prosecutors will never drop charges just because the victim has had a change of heart/story. The fact is, in 95% of all DV cases the parties reconcile, and prosecutors are well aware of this. He needs a good lawyer.

You have to talk to the prosecutor since that person is the only one that can dismiss the charges.

Prosecutors usually have a no drop policy.

Difficult, speak with his attorney to see how you might assist in mitigating the damages or getting the charges dropped. You have an issue with the "beefed up" statement as it is a crime to file a false statement. Now it is up to the police and prosecutor and they normally do not have a good sense of humor.

You can contact the prosecutor and explain the situation to him and state that you prefer the case be dismissed. However, keep in mind that is it is up to the prosecutor and the prosecutor alone on whether or not to pursue charges. While they do not like to, they can and will proceed with an uncooperative or reluctant witness. You can always ask them to drop the case and they can either agree or say no. Perhaps they would even be willing to reduce the charge to a civil infraction such as disturbing the peace. Your husband needs to be represented by an experienced criminal defense attorney from the area. Also, be aware that the prosecutor could threaten to charge you with filing a false police report if your story changes too much. They will sometimes do that as a means of making an uncooperative witness cooperative.