ALPENA — Whether consent is given for further communication with another by responding to an unconsented message was the question raised in court Thursday.

Brandon Hall, 33, was examined in the 88th District Court in Alpena Thursday in a continuation of Tuesday’s proceedings.

Judge Alan Curtis bound over the case to circuit court where Hall now awaits arraignment.

Hall was examined on charges of aggravated stalking, internet communication with another to commit a crime, and two counts of malicious use of telecommunication services on Tuesday.

On Thursday, he was examined for two counts of stalking, one count of intentional dissemination of sexually explicit visual material, two counts of using a computer to commit a crime, and two counts of malicious use of telecommunication services.

The counts for using a computer and malicious use of telecommunication services were charges added by the prosecution.

The proceedings on Thursday covered primarily incidents that occurred between the alleged victim and Hall during the summer of 2024.

Alpena Police Department Officer Linnessa Mellberg testified about the case. Mellberg said that she spoke to the alleged victim numerous times from February 2024 until Wednesday. She handled the evidence that the alleged victim gave her and wrote a number of police reports.

The alleged victim came to the witness stand to testify about additional evidence that was not shown on Tuesday.

One exhibit was a photo of a note that Hall left on the alleged victim’s partner’s truck, claiming that the alleged victim is a cheater and telling her partner to call him for proof. The note was left around June 2024.

Other evidence shown included vulgar text messages from Hall to the alleged victim. In one text, he asks her to make his charges disappear in response to her text to take down a Facebook status he had made about her.

The prosecution presented another piece of evidence of a vulgar status post that Hall had on his Facebook account claiming that the alleged victim was cheating with her boss.

Additionally, there were screenshots of a message and photos that Hall sent to the alleged victim’s partner. The photos were explicit images of the alleged victim. The alleged victim testified that Hall had been over to her house to see their children and that he must have accessed her phone then and sent the pictures to himself, as she did not send those photos to him. The alleged victim said that she was taking a shower when Hall found the images on her phone.

In his cross examination, defense attorney Bill Pfeifer pressed the alleged victim on her response to Hall’s messages. He asked the alleged victim to define unconsented contact and explain why she would respond to Hall if she did not want contact with him.

Previously, the alleged victim had stated that most of her contact with Hall was initiated to make sure that he did not kill himself, as he had told her he would on multiple occasions. She wanted to make sure their children had a father.

Pfeifer asked whether the only reason that the alleged victim ever talked to Hall was wanting him to be the best father he could be. He read two other messages she had sent to Hall, each using explicit language, and asked how those messages would make Hall the best father he could be.

The alleged victim replied that she never said the only reason she ever contacted Hall was to make sure he was a good father.

The alleged victim’s partner came to the witness stand and was shown some of the same pieces of evidence, including the note and the messages containing the two explicit photos.

He testified that Hall had sent messages to him often and that they annoyed him.

In her closing argument, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Alyssa Miller laid out the case and how Hall’s messages and Facebook posts showed repeated harassment of the victim.

“It shouldn’t matter if she was writing to him every single day, he was ordered by the court not to contact her, ” Miller said. “She was not ordered not to contact him.”