Note: This story has been edited to protect the parties’ identity.
The Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division Two, published a ruling June 5 that clarifies a judge’s role when a party does not have representation.
The ruling stems from a domestic violence case between a man and a woman who had met at a church. Follow Our Courts is not naming the litigants because this case involves domestic violence.
The woman said she began a relationship with the man, but ended it after he recorded himself sexually assaulting her when she was trying to go to a church service in January 2021.
She said she
