I am in a violent relationship, I am going today today to sign the arrest warrant. I love him very much.?

I'm a retired police officer myself and I agree with my colleague who answered earlier. Prepare for reatlliation. But to give you an idea of what this involves - even a little misdemeanor, let's start here - have the police investigated the crime?

Did they refuse to take the investigation to the prosecutor's office for a warrant review? OR did they take the investigation to the prosecutor's office for a warrant review, but the prosecutor refused to issue an arrest warrant? If the police refused to take the investigation report to the prosecutors office, you need to know why before you proceed.

If the police refused to follow-up, there's most likely a darn good reason they had for not doing so. If they did take their report to the prosecutor to request an arrest warrant and were refused a warrant, your criminal case as a citizen is already dead in the water and there's not sense in you doing anything further because the same prosecutor will again refuse to issue the warrent to you as well! Let's say you get a prosecutor to issue a warrant and the police are not involved (this would be very unusual).

You would have to take the warrant to a district court and conduct your own "swear-to". If the judge agrees with the probable cause issues, an arrest warrant will be issued. Now the suspect has to be arrested (by the police, not you) and brought to the court for an arraignment.

You don't have to do anything here, because the judge just reads the charge to the suspect, asks the suspect to enter a plea (guilty, not guilty, mute), sets a bond and preliminary appearance date. You would have to appear for the pre-trial hearing (and would learn that time spent here is time wasted because if you show up, the defense attorney waives the hearing, if you fail to show up the defense attorney will demand the hearing with the intent to have the case dismissed due to your failure to appear - welcome to the CJ system!), Next comes the trial - and you have to appear as the "star witness". If the defendant wants a jury trial, you have to sit there through voir dire - a long legal process of selecting jurors.

If the defendant wants a "bench trial", great! The judge hears the case without a jury. Now comes the trial.

First YOU are questioned directly by the prosecutor, going over each element of the crime and describing the events and facts relevant to the crime. Evidence has to be presented and allowed by the judge. It's your responsibility to protect the chain of evidence and prove that the evidence is unaltered from the day of the crime.

Then you will be cross examined by the defense attorney who will attack you personally - have you EVER lied in your life? You'll have to answer "Yes", because everybody lies at some point in their life. You'll then be asked "why should we believe an admitted liar now?" and you'll be put in a position of saying something silly like "Because I'm telling the truth today".

Do you get my point? If the police won't pursue criminal charges, it's probably best you don't either. It's not worth your time, it's not a fulfilling experience, and it's a big waste of time better spent with your family and friends.

If you've been damaged in some measurable way, how about just suing the suspect in civil court and leaving the entire matter to your own attorney? Does that make more sense?

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.