The county D A is already distancing himself from this mess. He remembers the name Mike Nifong the guy who destroyed himself with lies about the Duke lacrosse team. He ended up getting disbarred as I recall.
He also was sent to prison.
I don’t see how it can go anywhere legally. The key for battery is intent to harm. I don’t see that.
The DA is also up for reelection. The following is from the Sun-Sentinel on September 10, 2015.
The 44-year-old state attorney on Thursday officially announced he will seek re-election to the office he won for the first time in the 2012 general election.
Aronberg, a Democrat who previously served as a state senator and statewide prosecutor focused on prescription drug trafficking, boasted of his efforts to remove politics from the State Attorney’s Office for the state’s 15th Judicial Circuit.