What Should The Person Do If The Accuser Is Trying To Contact Them? Can They Do Anything To Stop That Contact Short Of An Order Of Protection Against Them?
Well, they can try that but usually the courts are not going to listen to it, anyway. Attorney Gordon Thompson tells his clients to be very careful. It depends, again, on what the orders are and most of the time, it’s no uninvited contact.
If it is no contact, that’s pretty rare. The lawyer would tell the prosecutors, if they are violating it, if it’s no uninvited contact but nevertheless there is something at issue, for example, the children, the lawyer can contact the prosecutors on their behalf and see if they could work something out.
In short, Attorney Gordon Thompson would say, “Contact me to work any problems out while the case is pending would be the best situation” but the other is you have to very careful about uninvited contact, particularly if it’s by telephone.
In another case Attorney Thompson had, there was contact going back and forth between his client and the victim. The victim was calling his client. The client was a female, and the victim was a male. The victim would call his client who didn’t answer for whatever reason; then his client returned the call, left a voice message and based on that, the client was prosecuted for no uninvited contact.
In short, clients are told to be very, very careful about what they are doing. Certainly be careful about recordings, but again, the easiest thing is to let the attorney try to work out something with the prosecutors and whenever possible, don’t have any contact.
Having said that, again, this isn’t occurring in a vacuum and the people have been living together and have needs quite often for many years so it’s hard to suddenly stop. Sometimes, the attorney can get the conditions of release modified and quite often do to allow them to have contact again and again, that’s something the attorney can work out with the prosecutors and the court would agree to allow them.
For example, if it’s a husband and wife and the husband is the aggressor, have the husband able to go back to the home, although it gets a little tricky, it’s still no uninvited contact, but let him go back to the home while the case is pending.
Again, that’s something that an attorney would tell their client that they can try to work out. Let the attorney work it out, don’t try something on your own.
Put everything through your attorney, because again, typically, when you’re in Phoenix, those charges start adding up very quickly.
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Do The Charges Add Up Quickly In Arizona Only In Domestic Violence Cases? Is That Something Isolated To Arizona or Phoenix?
That’s not known for the rest of the country. In Maricopa County, Phoenix is simply very aggressive in doing that. Gilbert would do the same thing but probably not quite as aggressive as Phoenix. Phoenix has just had a regular policy that a third act if they get two convictions, the third one goes to the County for a felony prosecution. That’s just etched in stone, they always do that.
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