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Usually if the police have you nailed to the wall, there isn't any way to get out of an assault charge. However, some states have "provokation" as a defense to prosecution. What that means is that if a normal, average, "reasonable man" would have been so provoked by what happened to you that they too would have hit first, you might be able to have the charge reduced to a lesser offense (or even dropped).

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