Hope Solo, the record-setting goalkeeper for the World Cup champion U.S. women’s soccer team, will face domestic violence charges after a Washington state appeals court on Friday reversed a judge’s decision last winter to throw out the case.
Solo is alleged to have assaulted her sister Teresa Obert and Obert’s son (Solo’s nephew), then 17, and during a party in June 2014. Solo claimed to be the victim in the incident but after an investigation, Kirkland, Wash., prosecutors charged her with two counts of fourth-degree assault.
In January, Kirkland Municipal Court Judge Michael Lambo dismissed the charges on procedural grounds after prosecution witnesses refused multiple requests to be interviewed.