People v. Nelson

Court entered order of protection (OP) against Defendant prohibiting him from sending mail to mother of their daughter. Defendant was convicted of violating the OP after he sent letters to his daughter at her mother's address. As parts of some of the letters clearly indicate that Defendant sent the letters to communicate with child's mother, it was not improper for court to bar testimony from 2 attorneys who had told Defendant that sending letters to his daughter would not violate the OP. Inference that letters were intended as a means of contacting child's mother is bolstered by the fact that their infant daughter was too young to be able to read them herself. (HUTCHINSON and HUDSON, concurring.)