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Powers of an order of protection

Jesse Barrientes: Well, let me explain. There was another case that I can’t tell you, that I was involved in. This was before I came onboard, but initially what had happened was the husband went to prison for trying to kill the wife and the child. He used a motor vehicle, and the child was there, too, and so he went to prison for that. So that is certainly an appropriate remedy. Now, people have to understand, the folks at home in Joliet have to understand that an order of protection is just a piece of paper. It’s not going to prevent somebody from doing you harm. What it is going to do is it’s going to make the penalty more severe.

David Siegel: Should it be violated in the future.

Jesse Barrientes: Exactly right. And so a lot of times, as we were talking about the orders of protection, they will be just based upon an incident, based upon somebody being in fear, or sometimes they will be based upon an actual battery, a domestic battery having been committed, and so now there’s a criminal charge against the respondent plus the order of protection. Sometimes, a lot of people use it as a precursor for a divorce, because they want to gain an advantage and they want to get custody, or they want to get the other person, or do all kinds of things. So they’ll go in and not be completely accurate or candid, and get an order of protection, and try to dictate the tone of the inevitable dissolution of marriage action.

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