From the pop emergency room to the pop courts, and the previously reported charges of domestic abuse made against Marty Crandall of The Shins have been dismissed after a court hearing yesterday.
As previously reported, Crandall was accused of beating up ex-girlfriend Elyse Sewell during an altercation last Friday. She was also charged after biting her ex during the scrap, though in a widely reported blog entry she said that was self-defence and accused her ex of insisting she be arrested too when police were called to deal with the fall out.
But after the case against her was dismissed in court yesterday on the grounds of lacking evidence, Sewell seemed less pissed off with her ex in a new blog entry, which read: "The DA has rejected the case against me. I am free. I wish the same outcome for Marty and have no intention of pursuing any further legal action. I would not wish entanglement in the widening gyre of the American legal system upon my worst enemy".
On her original blog entry about the incident, which was removed before the court hearing, she continued: "It was incredibly naive of me not to realize that my blog entry about this incident would become tabloid fodder. That was not my intention. I consider the small circle of people who frequent this LJ to be a support group; the much larger world of tabloid readers is certainly not. I will never speak of this again, nor malign Marty in this space. And tomorrow this'll be fishwrap".
She concluded: "Expect few updates to this journal in the next couple of weeks as I will be untangling the web of seven years of cohabitation with my ex-boyfriend, packing up my shit, and thickening up a plot to travel and work in more temperate climes".
The case against Crandall was dropped on the same grounds.