if you feel the need to beat your wife, heres a solution

[brad]

In Virginia Beach, Commonwealth Attorney Harvey L. Bryant III, the local prosecutor, has announced that because of state cutbacks to his office's budget, he will no longer prosecute the 2,200 misdemeanor domestic violence cases he gets a year.

"I deeply regret that the victims of domestic violence will no longer have a prosecutor on their side," said Mr. Bryant, a Republican. "But something had to go. I'm two assistant attorneys short."

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/19/national/19CRIM.html?ex=1040878800&en=19d8b0d5e0ba2eed&ei=5 062&partner=GOOGLE

[HDPM]

Very bad decision from that prosecutor. Misdemeanor domestic violence is a much worse crime than a lot of felonies. He should have eliminated drug prosecution first. Wife beaters can be some of the sickest criminals out of all misdemeanants or felons.