A DC Superior Court judge changed a defendant’s stay away order at the victim’s request.
The defendant is charged with simple assault in a domestic violence case. He was released awaiting trial on the condition that he stay away from his wife’s address. However, he has since been residing at her home with her permission.
Judge John McCabe amended the stay away order July 15 to allow normal day-to-day contact between the two. However, if the defendant harasses, assaults, threatens or stalks his wife, he may be charged with contempt of court.
Judge McCabe also took him off GPS monitoring.
The defendant’s next hearing is scheduled for Oct. 29.
