People v. LaBarge

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Lawliss, J.), entered October 19, 2009 in Clinton County, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of criminal contempt in the second degree.

Defendant and his former spouse (hereinafter the victim) allegedly engaged in a heated exchange over the phone regarding their two children. At the time of this conversation, there had been in effect for over two years an order of protection prohibiting defendant — who had been convicted of assault in the third degree and endangering the welfare of a child — from going *893within 1,000 feet of the victim…