Lawyers for a North Andover police officer who was shot by a colleague in a confrontation at her home last summer decried a judge’s recent decision to send her back to jail as “chilling, heartless, and legally baseless.”

“The trial court’s actions are indefensible,” her attorneys wrote in a brief filed Monday with the Supreme Judicial Court, which has agreed to hear her appeal. “The decisions abuse the concept of dangerousness.”

Kelsey E. Fitzsimmons, 28, who has pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon in connection to the June 30 incident at her North Andover home, was released on personal recognizance in September.

But she was sent back to jail days later on the order of Essex Superior Court Judge Kathleen McCarthy-Neyman.

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