PARIS – Former Oxford County Chief Deputy James Davis is set to appear before a District Court judge at 1:30 p.m. Monday to see if a temporary protection from abuse order against him will be made permanent.

The temporary order barring Davis from having contact with his former live-in girlfriend, Marilee Cooper, was issued in July after Cooper filed a complaint claiming among other things that Davis was “badgering” her in person, by phone and through the mail.

“From January through April (of 2006) James Davis constantly stopped in at my place of employment, the Oxford Post Office, and tell me (sic) that he needed to speak to me right then,” Cooper wrote in her request for a protection from abuse order. “He would proceed to badger, harass and sometimes tell me how much he loved me. It was frustrating and embarrassing to have this go on where I worked.”

The temporary restraining order was issued by the court on July 31 and also required Davis to relinquish all firearms. A subsequent hearing on whether the order would be made permanent was set for Oct. 24 but later postponed as Davis and Cooper, via their respective attorneys, attempted to work out an agreement.

That agreement didn’t develop, so the judge must now decide whether a permanent protection order against Davis is warranted.

Davis told the Sun Journal in July that he and Cooper had been together for more than eight years, during which time he had her name put on the deed to his house. Less than a year ago, he said, he moved out, and last spring he bought a new modular home for his mother, who lives next door to his former house, and moved into the two-family house with her.

“Basically, the judge has only heard it from the other side,” Davis also told the Sun Journal in July.

Besides the firearms prohibition, the temporary order bars Davis from having contact with Cooper, infringing on her liberty in any way, threatening, harassing, disturbing or molesting her, or entering her home. It also prohibits him from repeatedly and without reasonable cause following her and being in the vicinity of her home or place of employment.

Davis announced his retirement from the Sheriff’s Department effective Aug. 31.