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Tennessee GOP lawmaker charged for domestic violence
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Mar 20, 2012 10:06am |
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| Author | David Edwards |
| News Date | Monday, March 19, 2012 09:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Tennessee state Rep. David Hawk (R-Greenville), who supported a bill to allow guns in bars, was arrested on Sunday and charged with domestic assault on his wife.
The lawmaker was released from Greene County jail Monday morning on $500 bond after pleading “not guilty.”
“I am innocent and did not do what was alleged against me,” he told reporters. “I did not harm my wife. … I have faith that the courts will see the truth.”
A criminal complaint obtained by The Greenville Sun stated that Hawk’s wife, Crystal, said the couple had been drinking on Saturday night when he became angry after “looking through her cell phone.”
Around 8 a.m. on Sunday, Hawk allegedly struck his wife in the face, causing “bruising and swelling on and around her right eye, an abrasion (to) the upper and lower right side of her lip, and a large bruise on her left upper arm.”
Judge Kenneth Bailey Jr. ordered the lawmaker to have no contact with his wife and supervised visits with their 11-month-old child.
But Hawk insisted to reporters that his wife was not telling the truth.
“Yesterday, my wife had a gun and told me she was going to put a bullet in my head, while I was holding my baby,” he asserted. “At that time, I escaped to safety with my daughter.”
In 2005, Hawk’s ex-wife, Julia, accused him of stalking her and asked the court for a protective order. The request was later dismissed on the same day the couple came to an agreement over custody of their then-four-year-old daughter. |
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