Judge refuses to lift Mirkarimi stay-away order

[alp227]

A San Francisco judge refused Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's request Thursday that she lift an order barring him from having any contact with his wife and 2-year-old son while a domestic-violence case against him proceeds.

Superior Court Judge Susan Breall said Mirkarimi, 50, could petition the city's family court for the right to visit his son while he awaits trial on three misdemeanor counts related to a New Year's Eve incident involving his wife, Eliana Lopez.

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In arguing to keep the stay-away order in place, prosecutor Liz Aguilar-Tarchi cited two e-mails that police obtained via a search warrant from Ivory Madison, a neighbor of the couple in the Western Addition.

In one e-mail, dated two days after the New Year's Eve incident, Lopez wrote that she was concerned for her son's welfare and said, "I am very afraid of everything. ... Right now, I would just like to run away," the prosecutor said.

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She said the boy is distressed by being unable to see his father.

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[RandySF]

1. What's with all the food references?

First, it's alleged that he said 'You don't deserve to eat' in the day of the alleged abuse. Then there's the email when Mirk's wife said 'He's feeding us regularly'. And now this allegation that he left his kind in the car after not eating.

[bemildred]

2. Something about this smells bad. nt