What to do in case of legal complaints?

Questioner

Question, I was charged last February because I grabbed an employee by the arm after he was insulting. There was an investigation by the Royal Military Police and the case was transferred to the Public Prosecution Service. In July last year I received an email from the Royal Military Police in which it proposed a settlement proposal and asked the Royal Military Police to forward this email to me. No official letter or anything. So I did not respond to it any further, pending an official decision. To date I have not heard anything more about this. What are the terms? Will I get anything from this or? Does something like this expire?

Lawyer

assuming you are suspected of assault, without aggravating circumstances, the act will expire after six years. So that is not the case yet. It often happens that it takes one, two years or longer before a decision to prosecute is made. If you want to know how your case is doing, you can call the Public Prosecution Service: https://www.om.nl/contact/. But then you might be waking sleeping dogs. You can also gamble that the Public Prosecution Service will let the case expire or that the case will take so long that you will be entitled to a reduced sentence (if it leads to a conviction of course).