Shins Member Marty Crandall And Model Girlfriend Avoid Charges

Shins multi-instrumentalist Marty Crandall and his model ex-girlfriend Elyse Sewell are both off the hook for allegedly assaulting each other last Friday after the Sacramento, California district attorney's office ruled on Tuesday that there was insufficient evidence to pursue domestic violence charges against them.

"Basically it means there was not enough evidence to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt and no way to prove a crime against either one of the people involved," said Paul Durenberger. "We looked at the police reports and there was no way to make a determination of a crime."

Crandall and Sewell were in a long-term relationship, but the incident at the Sacramento hotel put an end to that. Sewell, however, seems to have tempered her harsh criticism of the musician that she included in a blog post that was later removed on the advice of lawyers in a new entry that went online on Tuesday afternoon.

"I am free. I wish the same outcome for Marty and have no intention of pursuing any further legal action. I would not wish entanglement in the widening gyre of the American legal system upon my worst enemy ... It was incredibly naive of me not to realize that my blog entry about this incident would become tabloid fodder. That was not my intention. I consider the small circle of people who frequent this LJ to be a support group; the much larger world of tabloid readers is certainly not. I will never speak of this again, nor malign Marty in this space. And tomorrow this'll be fishwrap ... Expect few updates to this journal in the next couple of weeks as I will be untangling the web of seven years of cohabitation with my ex-boyfriend, packing up my shit, and thickening up a plot to travel and work in more temperate climes."