Will she be charged?

Dallas Morning News columnist James Ragland lost his column space a couple of years ago after an altercation with his wife that spilled over to their church. He was charged with domestic violence, and the newspaper reassigned him.

I hadn't heard anything else about the case in all this time, but I noticed a week or so ago that he had a byline in the paper. As it turns out, his wife refuses to testify against him, so the charge has been dropped.

In April 2012, Shannon Morley-Ragland told prosecutors that Ragland "did not grab the phone from her hands, did not push her down, did not throw the phone at her and that she was not scared of the defendant." According to her original statement to the police, he did grab the phone from her hands, he did push her down, he did throw the phone at her, and she was afraid of him.

So, I wonder when they'll be filing charges against her for making a false statement to police and wasting their time, the prosecutor's time, and taxpayer money.

"Domestic violence case against News reporter dismissed." The Dallas Morning News; September 25, 2013; p. 1B.