Chapter 11 - Judith is charged
Prosecutors charged Judith with offenses tied to the stair incident.
No attempted murder.
No “throwing someone down stairs equals attempted homicide” shortcut.
Evidence supported intentional unlawful force.
Potentially reckless endangerment because of the obvious danger of stairs.
Charges included:
Misdemeanor assault.
A more serious reckless-endangerment count under local law.
The prior incidents remained under investigation.
Could they charge bathroom and garage?
Harder.
No contemporaneous police report.
No witness.
My memory uncertain.
Messages showed Judith admitted grabbing me, not necessarily intending a fall.
Prosecutor eventually declined separate criminal charges for those incidents.
They remained relevant context where admissible.
That disappointed Leah.
“Why?”
“Because evidence.”
She hated that answer.
I had learned to value it.
Then Judith’s bond conditions:
No contact with me.
No entering my home.
No intimidation.
No indirect messages.
No requirement to forgive.
No pretrial jail because:
No prior criminal history.
Stable residence.
Counsel.
Conditions sufficient.
Then Graham.
Prosecutor declined criminal charge for asking me to say I slipped.
The request occurred before law enforcement questioning.
He did not later submit a false statement.
When police interviewed him, he said:
“I did not see the push. I arrived seconds afterward. Nora said Mom pushed her.”
Accurate.
He admitted he had asked me to call it an accident because he panicked.
Ugly.
Not charged.
Then the prior concealment.
No criminal case.
Family consequences.
Civil possibilities.
May you like
Divorce.
That would be enough.
