Former Ansonia Alderman Keith Maynard Thursday pleaded not guilty to charges that he violated a protective order against his wife.
The original order was issued last summer, after he allegedly disguised himself as an intruder and beat her with a baseball bat in their Cook Street home four days before their wedding.
Maynard has already pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the initial assault.
Maynard had a brief court appearance for both matters Thursday, and his case was continued until Aug. 12.
The delay will allow one of Maynard’s attorneys, Jack Kelly, to catch up on the case.
Kelly recently returned after being out of the country for three months, he said Thursday.
In front of the judge Thursday, Maynard was flanked by both his lawyers.
Kelly, of Orange, is representing him on his original charges — second-degree assault, first-degree unlawful restraint and first-degree reckless endangerment — related to the July 2009 beating of his fiancee, Ida Marie Lucarelli, whom he married four days later.
Mastronardi, of Bridgeport, is representing Maynard on charges relating to his alleged violation of a protective order from the original incident.
Those charges include violation of a protective order, second-degree harassment and second-degree making a false statement.
Police say Maynard text-messaged his daughter in October 2009 to get messages through to his wife, despite a no-contact order issued two months earlier.
The protective order in place is still a total protective order, forbidding Maynard from having any direct — or indirect, which he is accused of — contact with his wife.
Ida Marie filed for divorce against her husband in October, four months after their wedding and her attack.
In February, Maynard applied for, and was denied entry to, a family violence education program, which could have wiped his record clean if successfully completed.
In denying his application, Judge Barbara Bellis Thursday said Maynard’s alleged actions were “disturbing, unfathomable and shocking,” and “go far beyond what is tolerable or acceptable in our society.”
More than 50 people had written letters of support for Maynard during the application process.
Ida Marie’s attorney, Bill Bloss of Bridgeport, was not in court Thursday, but said he had discussed the matter with prosecutors before Maynard’s court appearance.
“It seemed quite clear that there was not going to be any resolution today,” he said. “We are quite confident that the state is taking the cases with the level of seriousness deserved and will cooperate to the fullest extent possible.”
