Thanks, KUHERA.

No, pressing charges is up to the prosecutor. My experience with our local prosecutor isn't promising. They have way too many lawyers down there, and way too little crime in the county. They prosecute everything - especially if it seems like a slam dunk.

My sister's son was punched by another kid at school when he was about 15. She knew her son was no angel and it could just as easily have been her son who was the "perp" and the other kid the "victim." So she told the prosecutor she wasn't interested in having the other child prosecuted. The prosecutor told her her son would be subpeonaed and dragged down to court to testify if there was a trial. (The other kid plead, so there was no trial.)

I do hope they exercise discretion and decide not to prosecute, but I'm not holding my breath. I just hope they don't use it as an excuse to force medication on a "dangerousness" theory. I'll have to investigate what level of danger they'd need to show in order to override both my son's and my wishes about treatment.