Republican Taunton, Massachusetts Mayor Shauna O’Connell’s defense lawyer on Tuesday told a court that her husband Ted won’t testify against her at trial and seeks to have the charges including assault and battery on a family member and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon dropped as they’ve managed to work out their “martial issues” and reconciled since the July domestic altercation in which the mayor drunkenly bit Ted and hit him with a crowbar, Boston 25 reports.
Ted defended his abuser more or less from the get-go. “I apologize for calling the police, I apologize to my wife and the people of Taunton. It was a huge mistake,” he told reporters following his wife’s arraignment just three days after the Republican elected official brutally assaulted him.