This patent abuse of process is typical of how frivolous domestic violence claims are upheld by cowardly judges.

Most judges, desiring to appear sensitive to domestic violence victims, grant more than 99 percent of all temporary restraining orders that are filed. (And it costs nothing to seek a domestic violence TRO, unlike every other kind of civil process, which requires a filing fee).

They're terrified that in the freak event that they deny a poorly-supported TRO motion, and the defendant then goes nuts in response to the TRO motion and kills the complainant, they'll be demonized on TV and in the press or even, in rare cases, removed from the bench for "insensitivity."

Domestic violence TRO's are granted without any opportunity for the innocent accused to tell his or her side of the story.

Such TRO's have been called the "poor woman's divorce" because they enable the wife to summarily kick out her husband and gain control of the house and family car without even going through the procedural safeguards needed for a divorce.

I myself have talked to men who were wheelchair bound or otherwise physically disabled from posing much risk of harm who were falsely accused and then made subject to ex parte domestic violence TROs.

This episode reminds me of Tonya Harding, who was convicted of a violent felony, getting her injured boyfriend arrested for domestic violence after first telling 911 operators that she was beaten by masked intruders and then changing her mind and accusing her boyfriend. The prosecutors believed her, despite her own conceded initial lie about the very incident question, and charged the boyfriend despite his denials.

There's an awful lot of sex bias in handling domestic violence cases, always against the male. Women who kill their husbands without provocation get only 7 years, according to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, compared to 17 years for men who kill their wives.

For evidence of the bias against men, see the statistics cited in the amicus briefs in U.S. v. Morrison, 529 U.S. 598 (2000) filed by the Independent Women's Forum and Women's Freedom Network.

(I am a lawyer, but not a divorce lawyer. I should not have to point this out, but since you might otherwise wonder, I have never been accused of domestic violence, nor have I been divorced).