need advice, my son was Ticketed for "assault by contact". He never touched her, she actually jumped him from behind, he just yelled at her, . We had asked for Civil stand by to be present, was told by dispatcher that they only had one officer on duty that day, his ex shows up, refuses to hand over child, starts calling him vulgar words, I go call the cops again to get them out there, She finally turns child over, attempts or acts as if she is going to run over him, he side steps putting our vehicle between him and her. While he is putting the child in the vehicle so we can leave, she stops her vehicle jumps out and attacks him from behind. He never lays a hand on her, she threatens to hit me again, she has in the past, same town, This time I see her slap her own face, The police won't listen to me when I try to tell them she attacked him, They give him a ticket for assault by contact. They try to talk him into nolo contendre, I have taught him never accept responsibility for what you didn't do, but always stand up and take your consequences if you did it. Back ground is, she attacked me and 68 yr old granny a few years back, I pressed charges, They allow her to plead down on domestic violence to criminal mischeif and then no process the criminal mischeif. Next thing I know, I am told to turn myself in because of warrant on me for assaulting her, I go turn myself in, post bail, go to court about 5 times, they offer me two yr deferred adjudication, I say no. give me my trial, told to be ready for trial in 30 days, then two days prior, my bondsman notifies me it is all over. Charges dropped due to lack of evidence ( they were trying to prosecute me on my own bruises.) If I want my record expunged have to hire an attorney. Can't retrieve any of the information about the charges against her as it never went to court. Can't recover my evidence from this county or p.d. Now she had abuse charges filed on her over the child prior to this incident and has worked it around to having assault charges filed on him. He has a court date soon for pre-trial, where he will plead not quilty again. He doesn't have money to retain a lawyer although he is working, will he be entitled to court appointed, what should we do, should they take into consideration this woman has pulled this same stunt in the past and the fact that they had to drop charges against me over accusations from the same individual. What should we expect at the pretrial. Need advice real soon as pretrial is just a few weeks away. It is being held in city court.