Mike Patterson - felon. After two years of intermittent verbal and physical abuse at the hands of her husband, Mike, things came to a head at Mary Patterson's home on the evening of November 5.
Mike, who was at the time Redmond's city manager, had threatened to move out of the couple's home. Mary decided to hold him to it. The news didn't sit well with Mike who was prone to violent outbursts in the past.
After exchanging words, Mike, an athlete who played in a recreation tackle football league, pushed his wife backwards toward their wine cabinet. Mary stumbled and fell. But the fight didn't stop. She ended up pinned with her back to the kitchen counter. She was scared of what might happen next - and for good reason. In the past year, Mike had hit her hard enough in the face to swell her eye shut, and on another occasion shoved her into a hotel bathroom hard enough to dent the wall.
