“They called me and I just didn’t go, because I just didn’t want him to lose his job,” she said.
Without her testimony, the judge refused to issue a final order.
“All I want is for him to get better so my kids can have their dad,” Ms Carro said of her estranged husband. The husband did not respond to a call seeking comment.
Once a final order is made, however, judges are reluctant to reverse themselves.
In 2019, a judge red-flagged a college student who showed signs of mania after losing his grandmother and breaking up with a girlfriend, was involved in a road rage incident, and bought an AK-47 that he called her ‘baby’. A friend said he feared he was in “a downward spiral”.
With nearly three months left on the order, Mr. Schechter and Mr. Tilem, the man’s lawyers, offered to end it, arguing that his distress was temporary, that he had been cleared by three medical experts and that he was undergoing therapy.
“He was sad, and people are sometimes happy and sad at other times,” Mr. Schechter wrote, “but taking rights away from people is not something the court should do lightly. »
The judge was impassive; the order took its course.
The student has “done very well since all of this is over,” Mr. Tilem said.
Susan C.Beachy contributed to the research. Jonah E. Bromwich contributed report.
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