Can I Change the "No Contact" Deal of a Simple Assault Case Once I Turn 18
My question involves criminal law for the state of: I am only 17 years old.My boyfriend punched me in the back of the head,&since there was a lump and slight concussion, his grandfather called the cops and he was put into jail for a week.My mother filed a PFA the day after he was put into jail,&the hearing for that is this Wednesday.She is considering dropping it. My boyfriend was charged with Simple Assault, Harassment, and Endangering another Human Being. He has to go to drug and alcohal evalution, no contact with me for a year,&probation (he is 21,&this was the plea bargain at the prelimanary hearing).I turn 18 in less then 2months and the sentencing hearing is 2 days before my 18th birthday,&I was wandering, if the PFA was dropped, then at the sentencing hearing, if I could get the no contact for a year part of the charge dropped also. I have no say in the case now, because my mother is handling the situation.But we both want to have contact with one another, and if we do within that year, as of right now,he goes to jail for 2 years. So I wanted to know, when I turn 18, can I change that part or do we just have to wait the whole year? Or since there won't be a final PFA against him, will the "no caontact for a year" be gone? We live in PA, if that would be needed.
Re: Once I Turn 18,can I Change the "No Contact" Deal of a Simple Assault Case
How do you know he wants to have contact with you if he is currently bound by a no contact order?
If there is a 12 month no contact order, 12 months of no contact will be enforced.
He hit you hard enough to leave a significant injury. You need to seek counseling so that you value yourself too much to allow a man that values you this little in your life.
Further, failure to do so will sway a judge to grant the order... because if you aren't willing to protect yourself, the court will do it for you.
Re: Once I Turn 18,can I Change the "No Contact" Deal of a Simple Assault Case
we wrote one another in jail, talking about the possibilities and the consquences that might happen in result to his action. i stated also that in the preliminary hearing that i wanted to have contact with him, that it wasn't my decision not to however, it was my mother's. he was on drugs when this incident occured, and he wrote me in jail that he wanted to prove to me that he was going to improve his life, which is the only way i'd go back to him. he is deeply sorry, and realizes now more than ever the bad decisions he made. that is why i want to haev contact with him, at least talking. the judge assigned him rehab also, to make sure he stays clean because i suggested that. however, i was talking to a parent who went through things like this in a marriage, and he said that the no contact for 12 months was mainly because of the PFA. is that true or not?