meatkrieg

That's trash bud. Your right to defend yourself was taken away because you were excersising your right to defend yourself. I'd try to start researching now and seek out any avenues to start an appeal process, if any. Good luck.

I had the same charge in 2008, did they reduce it to a misdemeanor after time served? Luckily in my case they did and it finally has dropped off my record in the past couple of years!