A misguided domestic dispute over family funds, he called it.

A family disagreement that had gotten out of hand.

The sort of unfortunate misunderstanding that families should really resolve privately, without the heavy machinery of the criminal courts.

My attorney stood, and, without a word of argument, submitted the evidence package, one item at a time.

The emergency room intake reports, documenting the medical condition my wife had been left in.

The pediatric records, confirming that our newborn son had been found hypothermic.