Prosecutors in Aspen, Colorado filed felony menacing, third-degree assault and criminal mischief charges against actor Charlie Sheen Monday.
The charges stem from an alleged Christmas Day altercation between Sheen and his wife Brooke Mueller. Sheen faces up to three years in prison for the menacing charge.
Sheen did not enter a plea; the trial is scheduled to continue on March 15.
During the hearing, the district court judge modified a restraining order that was issued after domestic violence allegations, now allowing Sheen to see his wife as he faces the charges.
Mueller called the police on Dec. 25 saying her husband pinned her to a bed and held a knife to her throat when she asked for divorce.
Sheen was arrested and released the same night on $8,500 bail.
Mueller came to support her husband Monday. She hugged Sheen after the hearing and the two left the courthouse in separate vehicles.
Yale Galanter, Brook Sheen’s attorney, said they would fly back to Los Angeles on the same plane.
The Sheens have been married since 2008 and have young twin sons.
The TV star, known for his role in “Two and a Half Men” on CBS, has had legal trouble before.
He pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of battery with serious bodily injury in 1996 after his then-girlfriend Brittany Ashland accused him of knocking her to the ground.