I Want to Drop Domestic Violence Charges – What Does IL Law Say?
Our state takes domestic violence charges very seriously. So seriously, that law enforcement officers must arrest an offender if they have evidence of any injury to the victim.
In other words, if police are called in and there is a domestic dispute where one party appears to have injured the other, they are required to arrest the alleged perpetrator by law.
As you might imagine, this can cause some tricky situations. What if two people in a romantic relationship are [...]