By Staff Report BRENTWOOD – A Rockingham Superior Court judge has once again rejected a bail hearing for a Massachusetts state trooper charged with allegedly head-butting and strangling his extramarital girlfriend. Attorney Hank Brennan, representing Sgt. Bryan Erickson, filed a motion for a new bail hearing arguing circumstances have changed since his client was last denied bail. In the motion, Brennan states the alleged victim, who had filed for a restraining order against Erickson, failed to appear at the May 4 hearing, and as a result the temporary order was dismissed by the Family Court. "Given the alleged victim's deliberate absence from the restraining order hearing and her abandonment of the restraining order, the defendant raises the change in circumstance as a basis for the court to reconsider its bail order," Brennan wrote in the motion.