Legal Question in Family Law in Oregon

Re: No contact orders

If you're charged with a crime, the court will order conditions of release including no contact with alleged victims or witnesses. If you want to go to jail, have contact. It's a broad term which means it's all inclusive. If victim or witnesses contact you, leave immediately or hang up the phone. If you have a lawyer, ask your lawyer what it means. Ask the court for clarification if you're really confused about this. Treat this like a hot stove. If you touch it you're gonna get burned and if you violate a release agreement you can expect a high cash bail requirement or else you'll sit in jail until you go to trial or enter a plea of guilty or no contest. I have had many clients in domestic assault cases who are later contacted by the alleged victim wife or girlfriend. Sometimes it's a set up. It's not a dispute between you and the alleged victim, it's between you and the State and the Court so don't violate a Court's no contact order. Even if the victim initiates the contact, you must break it off immediately or suffer the consequences. Depending upon your circumstances, you may be able to convince the court to modify or drop the no contact order but don't break it until you get it modified or dropped.