After charging a woman in connection with a reported stabbing in Cody, Park County prosecutors have decided to drop the case.

Joy E. Haskell, 44, had been facing a felony count of aggravated assault and battery and a misdemeanor count of domestic battery for allegedly attacking her boyfriend on Oct. 12; Haskell also faced a misdemeanor count of interference with a peace officer. But the Park County Attorney’s Office moved to dismiss all three counts last week.

“We are re-evaluating the case based on new information,” Deputy Park County Prosecuting Attorney Larry Eichele said in a Wednesday email.

Eichele declined to elaborate on the information and Haskell’s court-appointed defense attorney declined to comment, leaving it unclear as to what prompted the change of course.

Though not directly mentioned in the charging documents, there have apparently been concerns about Haskell’s mental health: During her 25-day stint in the Park County Detention Center, she never appeared on the public list of inmates, which indicates she was subject to a so-called Title 25 hold. That’s applied when someone is believed to be a threat to their self or others as a result of mental illness.

Cody police responded to a horse trailer that Haskell was sharing with her boyfriend around 1:45 a.m. on Oct. 12, after he reported that she was attacking him.

When police arrived, Haskell was “aggressively knocking on the door and side of the trailer,” Officer Daniel Villalobos wrote in a charging affidavit. She had blood on her hands and arms and appeared to be intoxicated, Villalobos wrote. He said Haskell tried to flee and then resisted officers’ efforts to put her in a squad car.

Meanwhile, her boyfriend reported that Haskell hit him with an iPad until it broke, then started slashing at him with a 12-inch-long kitchen knife. The man had “visible defensive wounds” on his right hand and left leg, Villalobos wrote.

The affidavit does not say what, if anything, Haskell said to police about the altercation.

At an Oct. 23 preliminary hearing, Circuit Court Judge Joey Darrah found there was enough evidence for the aggravated assault charge to proceed to district court and toward a trial.

Haskell pleaded not guilty to all of the counts on Oct. 28, and District Court Judge Bill Simpson lowered her bail to $15,000 cash or surety. Just a few days later, Eichele agreed to have it lowered to a signature bond. Then on Nov. 4, he moved to drop the whole case.

At Eichele’s request, Simpson dismissed the charges “without prejudice,” which means prosecutors could theoretically refile them at a later date.

Haskell was released from the Cody jail on Thursday, but immediately transferred to another law enforcement agency, as the allegations in Cody have prompted prosecutors in Campbell County to seek to revoke the probation she’s been serving.

Court records show that Haskell is being supervised for a felony conviction of causing bodily injury to a peace officer. That case stemmed from a 2022 incident in which Haskell reportedly headbutted a Gillette police officer and “displaced” the officer’s nose.