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Your situation is pretty common. Domestic violence victims rarely want to testify and often refuse to cooperate with the police investigation. Since the cops run into this problem so often, they sometimes threaten to charge the victim if she doesn't cooperate. Though they may technically be able to charge you with something, I have never seen a case where they actually do. You mentioned refusing to testify in court. That is something entirely different. You are legally obligated to go to court if you are served with a subpoena. Failure to obey a subpoena is contempt which is a crime. Furthermore, if you go to court, but refuse to testify, that's also contempt.

I presume your boyfriend is represented by an attorney.  If not, why not?  If he cannot afford an attorney (based on state guidelines for indigency), one will be appointed to represent him.  If he is proceeding pro se, or represented by an attorney, he or the attorney (depending on whether is representing himself or being represented by an attorney) can file a motion to set a bond -- and set it for a hearing.  However, I cannot predict how quickly he will have a hearing -- since a defendant is not entitled to bond on a VOP (even if the case that served as the basis for the VOP allegations has been dropped).  Nonetheless, the dropping of the new charge, if that is the only alleged basis for violation, may be enough to convince the judge to set a bond. I often will contact the prosecutor assigned to the VOP case and see if I can reach some agreement with him/her, under the circumstances, to either withdraw the VOP affidavit (which reinstates the defendant on his probation) or to get him to agree that he will not object to a bond being set.  If the prosecutor does not object, the court, in my experience, is much more inclined to set a bond.  Your boyfriend could try to contact his defense attorney -- since he's incarcerated, he may be able to either call (from the jail) -- or, in the alternative, write to his defense attorney requesting to talk to him ASAP about the matter.