Commonwealth v. John Doe

MULTIPLE COUNTS OF VIOLATION OF AN ABUSE PREVENTION ORDER DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.

The client had a clerk-magistrate hearing on an application for criminal complaint alleging three counts of Violation of an Abuse Prevention Order (G.L. c. 209A, §7). At the clerk’s hearing, Attorney Patrick J. Noonan successfully argued that there was no probable cause to support any of the charges. The clerk found no probable cause and dismissed the criminal complaints with prejudice, meaning that these charges can never be filed against the client again.