State v. Collins
Annotate this CaseDefendant pleaded guilty to two counts of misdemeanor assault and was sentenced to one year in jail and one year of probation for each of the assault counts, to be served consecutively. As a condition of probation, Defendant was prohibited from having contact with his son except as specifically permitted by the family court. Defendant filed a motion to amend the conditions of probation. The court denied the motion. Defendant appealed, arguing that the court abused its discretion because the district court, in a collateral parenting action, had already allowed him to have supervised contact with his son. The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed, holding that the court did not unconstitutionally infringe on Collins’s parental rights when it increased the restrictions on his rights of contact with his son that had been set in the separate judicial proceeding.
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