Reading the report on smoking gun, he seemed like kind of a weenie.
I just read the Smoking Gun article and I think that it bears out what I was saying. The man admitted that he had provoked the incident and she says that she wasn't choking him because she knew better, that no one who knows her husband would put their hands around his neck. It sounds as though this is normal behavior in their home.
My mother was married to a man who tried to choke her, several times. Thankfully she was able to get away and call the police. When they arrived to see her with bruises, bloody nose and marks around her neck, they told her that she needed a witness, or they couldn't do anything.