It "seemed" pretty obvious to me that he knocked her out cold.

I don't know what the details were as to how/why, though--perhaps because a wife cannot be compelled to testify against her husband? Maybe he entered diversion? I just don't know.

Ah ha--I googled--it was diversion, as I suspected:

It seems unlikely to me that someone would haul off and hit another human being so forcefully if you were not already accustomed to some level of physical violence.

This may be legal, but it "ain't right," IMO.

Wonder if the girlfriend is still with him.

Hope they do not have kids.

...named Rayven.

Having a permanently unemployable class is not smart criminal justice policy.

so all if forgiven/forgotten.

Does this mean he gets his job back?

to deal with domestic violence, drug charges, child abuse. He is busy making up stories to get himself press in the off-season. Now Tom Brady and his balls - that my friends is where you can get some press.