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This bill expands the circumstances under which a court can revoke an individual's probation for contacting a victim. Currently, probation can be revoked if the individual contacts a victim from the crime for which they are serving an unsuspended portion of a split sentence. The proposed legislation broadens this provision to allow probation revocation if the individual contacts a victim from another crime for which they received a concurrent or consecutive sentence. Specifically, the bill adds two new scenarios: (1) contact with a victim from another crime where probation conditions explicitly prohibit such contact, and (2) contact with a victim from another crime where probation had already been previously revoked. The bill amends Maine Revised Statutes, Title 17-A, Section 1805, which governs probation revocation. This change aims to provide courts with more flexibility in protecting victims by allowing probation revocation in a wider range of scenarios involving prohibited victim contact, thereby potentially enhancing victim safety and ensuring stricter enforcement of probation conditions.

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