Mr. Beach’s client was accused of assaulting his girlfriend. Unfortunately, the girlfriend had an obviously swelling wound to the side of her face. However, Mr. Beach’s client said that the girlfriend was the one who attacked him and that all he did was defending himself by pushing her off of him. So, Mr. Beach’s client declined the option of the Deferred Sentencing Program and went to trial. At the trial, Mr. Beach was able to establish to the jury that his client was in fact merely defending himself by pushing the real aggressor away and that the injury to her face must have come from that event. The jury quickly returned a Not Guilty Verdict.