Disgraced anchorman Rob Morrison may now communicate with the wife he’s charged with drunkenly choking and threatening to kill — but he’s banned from driving their son.
A Connecticut judge, acting on a joint request by Morrison and CBS journalist Ashley Morrison, modified a protective order to permit him to phone, e-mail or text her — but only to discuss their 7-year-old son.
Morrison is allowed more frequent contact only during an emergency or illness involving the boy, but is otherwise barred from making more than one phone call per day to Ashley, Judge David Tobin wrote.
Tobin also wrote, without elaborating, that Morrison — who previously was barred from contacting Ashley at all — “shall not operate a motor vehicle with the minor child in the car.”
Morrison, 44, has been banned from the family’s million-dollar Darien, Conn., home since Feb. 17, when the former Marine was arrested for allegedly throttling Ashley in a drunken fury, then vowing to murder her if cops released him.
Morrison, who had been arrested for several prior domestic disputes with Ashley, resigned as anchor of WCBS/Channel 2’s morning and noon news shows days later.
He’s due back in Stamford Superior Court April 30. His lawyer, Rob Skovgaard, declined to comment on the modified protective order.