My question involves restraining orders in the State of: Massachusetts
First of all, I want to thank anyone in advance for their help. I have never been in any sort of trouble with the law before. I have 0 criminal record. I am desperate to keep it that way. I got involved some time ago with a very mentally ill girl from another state. I live in Ohio, she lives in Massachusetts. I was served this order by a police officer, who was laughing while reading it to me. He could not believe it himself, being that I lived so far away. He asked me if I had any guns in a nonchalant way, as to suggest he did not care if I did. At the time of serving, I will have had less than 7 business days to prepare a defense for myself, seek possible legal representation and make nearly 1,000 mile travel arrangements, and travel nearly 1,000 miles thereafter. The problem is, I do not have any money. On such short notice, a flight will cost me $400 alone, not counting other expenses like a hotel possibly. A lawyer, even to show up and file a motion for an extension, will likely cost even more than that. The woman at the clerk's office said I could fax over documentation pertaining to the case, but it's likely that the judge would not even read it and automatically find in the favor of the Accuser, and extend the order for 1 year. She told me I cannot even file a motion for an extension remotely, I would have to show up or pay a lawyer. I cannot tell you how unfair and unjust this feels to me; this basically says either you have money, or you are screwed... even if you're innocent.
The Accuser can be EXTREMELY convincing when trying to garner sympathy and I suspect maybe they are a sociopath. They are an admitted compulsive liar. What I do know for certain, is that she is a diagnosed schizophrenic, who hallucinates both audibly and visually. I have plenty of facebook messages of her admitting to absolutely crazy delusions. Delusions, specifically, that she ADMITS are delusions about me killing her and things of that nature. She would say that voices in her head were telling her that I was going to harm her, and she believed the voices. This was so routine, apparently, that her parents thought nothing of it when she would wake them in the middle of the night about someone that's going to kill her. I have all of the text message and facebook message proof of this. What's insane to me is that I got this order completely out of the blue. I had not talked to the Accuser for over 6 months, on anything. The only thing I coudl think of is she got word that I was dating someone else very shortly after moving on from her and lost her mind. Or that girl, who is now my ex, contacted the Accuser thinking I had gotten back with her and said nasty things to her. I suspect this may be the case, that my now ex-gf contacted the Accuser thinking I had gotten back with her, because my now ex-gf(not the Accuser) was also trying to be served an abuse prevention order by the officer; I told them she doesn't live here and has never lived here and the officer left. But I don't see how I can be responsible for the actions of another human being, that is literally impossible. Moreover, I had only spent a matter of HOURS with this person in real life, total, the entire time I've known them. And that was not in her state. How am I a threat? There were fiascos when we tried meeting up. She would start to hear voices and get the police involved. The police of course would treat me like a criminal and her as a victim, until I would hand them my phone and prove she was lying to them to their faces. The one time I drove over 6 hours to Chicago to meet up with her, waited for 8 hours in an ER, everything was fine between us and she gets out of the ER and shouts to the security guards YOU BETTER GET HIM!!! GET HIM!!! GET HIM!!!! Now, I had just been having a conversation with one of these guards and we were being extremely friendly. I went from being friendly with this guy, to him saying "if we see you on the premises again, you'll be arrested". It was like an episode of the twilight zone. They wouldn't even give me an explanation as to what was going on. You're probably saying, 'why would you ever take her back after that, you are nuts'... well, all I can say is... love makes you do very stupid things. Beyond that, she has also made threats against me... saying to me and her friends both that she was going to slit my throat in my sleep. I tried to leave her many times, and every time she would either threaten to kill herself if I did, or threaten me with blackmail, or both. This happened probably at least 50 times over a 2 year period. I have proof of all of it. The problem is, the judge is not even going to look at it any of my information, according to his own clerk. How is that justice being served? What can I do in my situation? I am on SSI for my own mental health issues, can this affect any of my SSI benefits at all? If so, how?
First of all, I want to thank anyone in advance for their help. I have never been in any sort of trouble with the law before. I have 0 criminal record. I am desperate to keep it that way. I got involved some time ago with a very mentally ill girl from another state. I live in Ohio, she lives in Massachusetts. I was served this order by a police officer, who was laughing while reading it to me. He could not believe it himself, being that I lived so far away. He asked me if I had any guns in a nonchalant way, as to suggest he did not care if I did. At the time of serving, I will have had less than 7 business days to prepare a defense for myself, seek possible legal representation and make nearly 1,000 mile travel arrangements, and travel nearly 1,000 miles thereafter. The problem is, I do not have any money. On such short notice, a flight will cost me $400 alone, not counting other expenses like a hotel possibly. A lawyer, even to show up and file a motion for an extension, will likely cost even more than that. The woman at the clerk's office said I could fax over documentation pertaining to the case, but it's likely that the judge would not even read it and automatically find in the favor of the Accuser, and extend the order for 1 year. She told me I cannot even file a motion for an extension remotely, I would have to show up or pay a lawyer. I cannot tell you how unfair and unjust this feels to me; this basically says either you have money, or you are screwed... even if you're innocent.
The Accuser can be EXTREMELY convincing when trying to garner sympathy and I suspect maybe they are a sociopath. They are an admitted compulsive liar. What I do know for certain, is that she is a diagnosed schizophrenic, who hallucinates both audibly and visually. I have plenty of facebook messages of her admitting to absolutely crazy delusions. Delusions, specifically, that she ADMITS are delusions about me killing her and things of that nature. She would say that voices in her head were telling her that I was going to harm her, and she believed the voices. This was so routine, apparently, that her parents thought nothing of it when she would wake them in the middle of the night about someone that's going to kill her. I have all of the text message and facebook message proof of this. What's insane to me is that I got this order completely out of the blue. I had not talked to the Accuser for over 6 months, on anything. The only thing I coudl think of is she got word that I was dating someone else very shortly after moving on from her and lost her mind. Or that girl, who is now my ex, contacted the Accuser thinking I had gotten back with her and said nasty things to her. I suspect this may be the case, that my now ex-gf contacted the Accuser thinking I had gotten back with her, because my now ex-gf(not the Accuser) was also trying to be served an abuse prevention order by the officer; I told them she doesn't live here and has never lived here and the officer left. But I don't see how I can be responsible for the actions of another human being, that is literally impossible. Moreover, I had only spent a matter of HOURS with this person in real life, total, the entire time I've known them. And that was not in her state. How am I a threat? There were fiascos when we tried meeting up. She would start to hear voices and get the police involved. The police of course would treat me like a criminal and her as a victim, until I would hand them my phone and prove she was lying to them to their faces. The one time I drove over 6 hours to Chicago to meet up with her, waited for 8 hours in an ER, everything was fine between us and she gets out of the ER and shouts to the security guards YOU BETTER GET HIM!!! GET HIM!!! GET HIM!!!! Now, I had just been having a conversation with one of these guards and we were being extremely friendly. I went from being friendly with this guy, to him saying "if we see you on the premises again, you'll be arrested". It was like an episode of the twilight zone. They wouldn't even give me an explanation as to what was going on. You're probably saying, 'why would you ever take her back after that, you are nuts'... well, all I can say is... love makes you do very stupid things. Beyond that, she has also made threats against me... saying to me and her friends both that she was going to slit my throat in my sleep. I tried to leave her many times, and every time she would either threaten to kill herself if I did, or threaten me with blackmail, or both. This happened probably at least 50 times over a 2 year period. I have proof of all of it. The problem is, the judge is not even going to look at it any of my information, according to his own clerk. How is that justice being served? What can I do in my situation? I am on SSI for my own mental health issues, can this affect any of my SSI benefits at all? If so, how?
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