Q: Can i get in trouble for continuing my relationship with my boyfriend who has a dv with me and is taking it to trial?
My boyfriend and I had started out in what i thought to be a dream vome true relationship. However, september of last year we got into a scuffle over something he was hiding on his phone. The cops got invovled and now he is taking it to trialeven though he admitsto me to what he did. He began acting strangly as if i were in danger but never threatened me out right. But my reaction of course was a defensive one in which i believe he recorded to help his case. He tells me he just hasnt taken a plea yet because he is trying to get them to lessen it and that he wants a future with me and that i could stay with him and not worry and he will show me if i just give him a chance. Am i treading in unsafe waters? Is he trying to falsify evidence? What can i do?
A:
If this is in Colorado, there is a mandatory protection order that prohibits your boyfriend (the defendant) from contacting you.
You cannot get in trouble for contacting him (unless you are breaking some other law), but he can get in trouble for having contact with you in violation of the protection order or possibly witness tampering, harassment etc.
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