As some of you may remember, Bill Keef and Ardith Keef filed a Protection From Harrassment order against an old fellow up protesting at the church (God bless him.) After two half days of hearings, the results are in. While judgement was made on the 20th, I have just now seen the official paperwork. I will have it scanned in as a pdf in the next day or two. For now, this is the breakdown:

After hearing on 11-07-08 and 11-14-08, at which the plaintiff was present and the defendant was present, the court denies the plaintiff an Order For Protection for the following reason(s): The court finds that the plaintiff is not entitled to the requested relief because the plaintiff has failed to prove that the defendant abused/harrassed the plaintiff as the term “abuse”/”harassment” is defined in 19-A M.R.S.A Section 4006 or 5 M.R.S.A. Section 4651(2). The temporary order for protection issued by this court on 10/20/08 is TERMINATED and of no further force or effect and the Complaint For Protection is dismissed. No persuasive proof of intimidation, confrontation, or stalking since agreed upon order ended on 10/5/08.

Both the complaints from Bill Keef and Ardith Keef were dismissed. One has to wonder how they will attack now? An interesting facet to this is the fact that website articles were written and protesting occured after the first, agreed upon order, ended on 10-05-08. It is clear that neither the protesting, or the articles written, constituted intimidation, confrontation, or stalking, as well as abuse or harrassment, under Maine law.