Overview
- Prosecutors filed a no-information notice on August 10 that declined to pursue a domestic battery charge because testimonial evidence was not corroborated by physical or other evidence.
- Wiley was arrested after a July 4 hotel incident in Orlando in which his estranged wife told deputies he poked her in the cheek and threatened her; he was booked and released on bond the next day.
- Two days after the July incident Annemarie Wiley filed for divorce in California and obtained a temporary restraining order, and those family-court actions remain independent of the Florida dismissal.
- Marcellus Wiley publicly celebrated the prosecutors’ decision on social media and in videos, and some reports say Annemarie was not directly notified before the dismissal became public.
- Separate civil lawsuits alleging sexual assault by multiple women against Wiley remain unresolved, and the Florida dismissal reflects prosecutors’ view on evidence for criminal conviction rather than a judicial finding on the underlying allegations.