Legal Question in Criminal Law in Colorado

Restraing Order

1) Can wife who is a notery get sworn testimony to counterpunch the orderor would this be construed as a conflict of interest to the judge?

2)Do emails that are nonthreatening and addressed to 30-40 people but the plantiff was in their constitute emotional abuse by me after I had promiced to never contact them again?

3)If the plantiff says that I have bothered them and threatened them over a year period and I can prove otherwise, can that be considered perjury on her part?

4)Can I countersue for defamation of character?

5)I can't afford an Attorny,what is your advice?

6)if an individual has info that I need but wont submit to a sworn statement because they don't want to get involved, how can I force them to help me? Their info would break the case in my favor.

7)what are court costs for a restraining order in Co.

8)if the restraining order goes through and I have to stay100 yds away and we meet at a mutual friends house or church, softball field- what is the protocol? Do I have to leave?


Asked on 2/07/07, 3:40 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Philip Rosmarin Rosmarin Law Firm

Re: Restraing Order

1) Notaries are plentiful. Find one to whom you are not married.

2) You have an extraordinary number of pen-pals; good for you. If any of them happen also to be pals with the plaintiff, and you've so much as hinted that one of them might pass anything in your letters along to that plaintiff, you have likely violated the restraining order. If by "plaintiff was in their (sic)" you mean she was one of the addressees, you have definitely violated the restraining order. "No contact," oddly enough, means no contact.

3) If she knowingly testifies untruthfully, or knowingly makes untruthful statements in a deposition, yes, that is perjury.

4) Anyone can sue for anything. Slander (spoken defamation) and libel (written defamation) are both causes of action in Colorado.

5) Start dating somebody else.

6) If that testimony is important to your case, you can subpoena the witness. You can't serve it yourself, but you can find an adult who can.

7) If you can't afford it, the filing fee, and the fee for sheriff's service of the order, can be waived.

8) The protocol is you don't meet, under any circumstances not approved by the court. You don't say hello, and while you are beating your hasty retreat, you don't say goodbye.

Good luck.

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Answered on 2/08/07, 7:40 pm


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