Taunton Mayor Shaunna O’Connell’s lawyer has asked a judge to dismiss the assault charges lodged against her earlier this year.

 

James McMahon, who’s representing O’Connell, wrote in his request that her husband refuses to testify against her because the two have personally and legally reconciled.

 

“The husband will exercise his marital privledge, and his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination,” McMahon explained in his motion to dismiss.

 

O’Connell was arrested over the summer after her husband told officers she bit him, hit him with a gasket scraper and jumped on the hood of his car as he tried to leave during a heated argument at their home.

 

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