Seems a bit heavy handed to me to put this perp in the hotel Gray Bar, get his to pay out bail, and then line him up for more by charging him with third degree assualt BUT I wasn't there when the alleged crime took place. I can't imagine it came down to much more than a shouting match and a love tap from the stick; on the other hand, let the punishment fit the crime. If the guy with the cane beat the piss out of the other guy then let his deeds dictate his reward.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus