State ex rel. Emery v. Andisha

Defendant appeals a judgment of criminal contempt for violating a restraining order under the Family Abuse Prevention Act, ORS 107.700 etseq. The order, issued under ORS 107.718,1 restrained defendant “from molesting, interfering with, or menacing [plaintiff] and the minor children in [her] custody” and from entering her home, school, church and day care location. The trial court found that defendant violated the order by making a telephone call to plaintiffs son. Defendant argues that the court erred in holding him in contempt, because the order was so vague that he could not have known that…