Besides, he already got that charge dropped. He was in the process of getting the second one dropped too when she told him to stop.

That wouldn't have gotten her out of prison…

So it's his responsibility to go against her wishes? No, that's absolutely unfair and you know it. Meanwhile, Ava's betrayal is somehow defensible? Boyd would have gone to prison for Ava in a heartbeat, the fact that she would promise to send him there herself, and then make every attempt to follow through on that…