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I have to speak up and say that his violation of the 100' court order requirement could not be helped.
Kevin
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Bar owner guilty of criminal contemptFormer candidate gets 12 months of probation
By JAMES MERRIWEATHER
The News Journal
12/29/2005
DOVER -- Former gubernatorial candidate Frank Infante has been convicted of criminal contempt for violating a protection-from-abuse order issued on behalf of his common-law wife.
Infante, 39, a Smyrna saloonkeeper, was acquitted of a second criminal-contempt count, and a charge of offensive touching was dropped by prosecutors. Family Court Commissioner David Jones, who heard evidence in the case last Friday, sentenced Infante to 12 months of unsupervised probation.
Infante, who ran for governor in 2004 on the Independent and Libertarian party tickets, is slated for a Family Court trial at 10 a.m. Jan. 5 on a third criminal contempt charge. He also is scheduled to appear Jan. 26 in Kent County Court of Common Pleas for trial on two counts of interfering with the custody of a child.
The charges stem from a bitter breakup with Melissa "Missy" Simcox, whom Infante describes as his common-law wife, owing to a period of cohabitation in Pennsylvania. Infante was accused of violating an order to stay at least 100 feet away from Simcox by working at his bar, Bulldozers Saloon, which is next door to their home.
The offensive touching charge stemmed from a scuffle between Infante and Simcox at their home -- touched off, Simcox has testified, by her choice of ham-and-cheese sandwiches as a dinner selection for the couple's two children.
With the charges already pending, Commissioner Lester Blades, after a Nov. 29 hearing, issued new protection-of-abuse orders on behalf of both parties. Each had asked for protection from the other.
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