An Atlantic County Family Court judge found no evidence of domestic violence for an Atlantic City officer criminally charged with beating his girlfriend.
Dayton Brown remains charged criminally with aggravated assault of his former girlfriend. The 10-year veteran has been suspended without pay.
There had been a temporary restraining order issued in the case, but a final one was not granted after the judge found no evidence to back it up, defense attorney Brenden Shur told BreakingAC on Thursday.
Shur is an associate for John Zarych, who is handling the criminal case.
Brown, 43,
was arrested in February, after the woman wound up in the hospital with a collapsed lung.
She told police that Brown had kicked and punched her inside the Galloway Township home they shared.
Brown has been free since Feb. 23, after Superior Court Judge Michael Blee
ruled against the state in a detention hearing, saying that there was "sufficient evidence produced by the defendant that the state is going to have significant difficulties in proving this case beyond a reason doubt."
During that hearing, a woman who has known the alleged victim for 13 years said, "I love her to death" but that she "has a problem with the truth."
There is no current court date set for the criminal case.
