M.W. v. R.L.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

LONG, P.J.A.D.

Plaintiff, M.W., filed a domestic violence complaint against her lover of two years, defendant, R.L., claiming that he told her over the telephone that he would never allow her to leave him alive. The complaint alleged that this supposed conversation constituted “terroristic threats” and “harassment.”

At trial, defendant produced recordings of his conversations with plaintiff and her brother which appeared to show that the threatening conversation never took place, and that in fact, plaintiff had fabricated the entire incident. The family…