{"id":158,"date":"2012-01-12T05:02:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T05:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.massachusettscriminaldefenselawyerblog.com\/2012\/01\/weston-man-charged-with-massac.html"},"modified":"2018-09-10T19:14:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T23:14:09","slug":"weston-man-charged-with-massac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/weston-man-charged-with-massac\/","title":{"rendered":"Weston Man Charged With Massachusetts Restraining Order Violation"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Weston man was recently arrested and charged after allegedly violating a Massachusetts restraining order his wife had gotten against him, The MetroWest Daily News<\/a> is reporting.<\/p>\n

Facing a restraining order in Westborough<\/a> can be an embarrassing thing and typically derives from some type of Massachusetts domestic violence<\/a> situation.<\/p>\n

Westborough criminal defense lawyers<\/a> recognize that these matters are private, yet can take a public turn once the issues get into the court system.<\/p>\n

In this case, a 29-year-old man now faces criminal charges after he allegedly violated the restraining order and then forced a police cruiser off the road, The MetroWest Daily News reports.<\/p>\n

According to the newspaper, the couple has had various domestic violence issues recently. The wife was arrested on Christmas Eve after she allegedly crashed a party at the man’s Aspen Road home, threw a chair through a widow and assaulted someone. The wife, who previously had a restraining order against her husband, renewed it recently and the man showed up at her house and entered, police said, in violation of the order.<\/p>\n

The wife told him to leave and as he did, he reportedly drove down the center of a road without his headlights, which caused a police officer to drive off the road. The man was arrested at his home and charged with a restraining order violation, driving to endanger, speeding, driving without headlights and failing to keep right.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors have asked that the man’s bail be revoked in a previous case where he is accused of assaulting his children. The man is being held on the probation violation, but no decision was made by a Framingham District Court<\/a> judge on the prosecution request.<\/p>\n

According to the Massachusetts Criminal Model Jury Instructions<\/a>, in order to be convicted of violating an abuse prevention order (a 209A violation), the prosecution must show four things:<\/p>\n