Los Angeles (CNN) -- Actor Mel Gibson is expected to be in court Friday to answer to a charge of domestic violence stemming from an incident a year ago with his former girlfriend.
Prosecutors were set to file a criminal complaint against Gibson late Friday morning, followed by the actor's appearance in a Los Angeles County courtroom at 1:30 p.m. (4:30 p.m. ET), according to a statement Friday from the district attorney's office.
Gibson's attorney Blair Berk said this week that Gibson had approached Los Angeles County prosecutors "with a proposal that would bring all of this to an immediate end".
"Mel's only priority throughout all of this has been that the best interests of his young daughter Lucia and the rest of his children be put first in any decisions made," Berk said. "It is with only that in mind that he asked me to approach the district attorney with a proposal that would bring all of this to an immediate end".
Prosecutors have been considering evidence gathered by sheriff's investigators to decide if a domestic violence case would be filed against Gibson because of the incident a year ago involving Oksana Grigorieva, his ex-girlfriend and the mother of his 3-year-old daughter.
Detectives are also investigating Gibson's charge that Grigorieva, a Russian musician, tried to extort money from him with recordings she made of his telephone calls, a Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman said.
The couple is in a bitter legal fight over custody of their daughter. The sheriff's investigation findings have been in the hands of prosecutors since August.
Steve Jaffe, a representative for Grigorieva, told CNN that they "won't comment on the situation regarding Mr. Gibson". CNN
